Triads in the Veda

Triads in the Veda PDF Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Triads in the Veda

Triads in the Veda PDF Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266

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Triads in the Veda

Triads in the Veda PDF Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: North-Holland
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Triads in Vedic Ritual

Triads in Vedic Ritual PDF Author: J. Gonda
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 19

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Chariots in the Veda

Chariots in the Veda PDF Author: M. Sparreboom
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658467
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Rice and Barley Offerings in the Veda

Rice and Barley Offerings in the Veda PDF Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645691
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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The Functions and Significance of Gold in the Veda

The Functions and Significance of Gold in the Veda PDF Author: Jan Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645748
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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This book deals with the significance attached to gold by the authors of the Veda; the use made of it in rites and ceremonies (symbolical actions transferring its inherent power, purification, magic etc.); its importance as an element of theological and speculative thought, e.g. the figure of Hiraṇyagarbha in the Veda and the Vedānta.

Vedic Ritual

Vedic Ritual PDF Author: J. Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004492461
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Language and Style of the Vedic Rsis

Language and Style of the Vedic Rsis PDF Author: Tat?i?a?na I?A?kovlevna Elizarenkova
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791416686
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Elizarenkova, perhaps the greatest living scholar of the Rgveda and certainly its greatest linguist, explains here the relationships between a very complicated grammatical system and the peculiarities of style of the archaic religious poetry. The laudatory hymn is treated as an act of verbal communication between the poet Rsi and the deity, with the hymn itself transmitting certain information from man to god. From this viewpoint, the hymn is used as a means to maintain a circular exchange of gifts between the Rsis and their gods. Many peculiarities of the functioning of the grammatical system of the Rgveda are interpreted in connection with the model of the universe of the Vedic Aryan. For example, the concept of time as a circular process bears closely on the use of the verbal grammatical categories of tense and mood; the personification of some abstract forces can explain some irregularities in the functioning of the nominal category of gender; and the idea of magical power attributed to the Sacred Speech in general, and to the name of a god in particular, underlies the magical grammar of this religious poetry.

Mantra Interpretation in the Śatapatha-Brahmaṇa

Mantra Interpretation in the Śatapatha-Brahmaṇa PDF Author: Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda

The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda PDF Author: J Gonda
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658750
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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Although the number of hymns composed in honour of the most popular member of the Vedic pantheon is nearly one- fourth of the total, a monograph on this important collection of religious poetry has up to now never been published. It has been the author's endeavour to ascertain and examine all relevant facts concerning their structure, the contents and composition of essential constituent parts of the hymns. Further, this study tries to understand how the poets presented their subject-matter and elaborated their themes; to illustrate by numerous (translated) quotations the character of their elements (praise, prayer, and references to sacrifices); to investigate how far these are kept separate; to examine numerous stylistic and phraseological particulars, and the various peculiarities of their versification as well as the syntactic aspects of this poetry.