Author: Baudhāyana
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Thinking Through Rituals
Author: Kevin Schilbrack
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415290593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Thinking Through Rituals explores religious ritual acts and their connection to meaning and truth, building upon their special status as virtually pure forms of belief in action.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415290593
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Thinking Through Rituals explores religious ritual acts and their connection to meaning and truth, building upon their special status as virtually pure forms of belief in action.
The Baudhāyana śrauta sūtra
Author: Baudhāyana
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
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The Baudhayana Śrautasūtra: Aphorismes (sanscrit) traduit en anglais, sur des rites et sacrifices védique selon l'ecole Baudhāyana dans le Taittirīya recension du Yajurveda
Author: Baudhāyana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Aphoristic work with English translation, on the Vedic sacrificial rites according to the Baudhāyana school in the Taittirīya recension of Yajurveda.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Aphoristic work with English translation, on the Vedic sacrificial rites according to the Baudhāyana school in the Taittirīya recension of Yajurveda.
The Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra
Author: Baudhāyana
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Dharma, Disorder, and the Political in Ancient India
Author: Adam Bowles
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book is a close study of the ?paddharmaparvan which situates it within its context in the great Sanskrit epic the Mah?bh?rata and within Indian political and social thought, and explores the relationship of its didacticism to the broader literary context of the Mah?bh?rata.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004158154
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
This book is a close study of the ?paddharmaparvan which situates it within its context in the great Sanskrit epic the Mah?bh?rata and within Indian political and social thought, and explores the relationship of its didacticism to the broader literary context of the Mah?bh?rata.
The Dharmasutras
Author:
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191584237
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent views on such subjects as the education of the young and their rites of passage, ritual procedures and religious ceremonies, marriage and marital rights and obligations, dietary restrictions, the right professions for and the proper interaction between different social groups, sins and their expiations, institutions for the pursuit of holiness, king and the administration of justice, crimes and punishments, death and ancestral rites. In short, these unique documents give us a glimpse of how people, especially Brahmin males, were ideally expected to live their lives within an ordered and hierarchically arranged society. In this first English translation of the Dharmasutras for over a century, Patrick Olivelle uses the same lucid and elegant style as in his award-winning translation of the Upanisads and incorporates the most recent scholarship on ancient Indian law, society, and religion. Complex material is helpfully organized, making this the ideal edition for the non-specialist as well as for students of Indian society and religion.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780191584237
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent views on such subjects as the education of the young and their rites of passage, ritual procedures and religious ceremonies, marriage and marital rights and obligations, dietary restrictions, the right professions for and the proper interaction between different social groups, sins and their expiations, institutions for the pursuit of holiness, king and the administration of justice, crimes and punishments, death and ancestral rites. In short, these unique documents give us a glimpse of how people, especially Brahmin males, were ideally expected to live their lives within an ordered and hierarchically arranged society. In this first English translation of the Dharmasutras for over a century, Patrick Olivelle uses the same lucid and elegant style as in his award-winning translation of the Upanisads and incorporates the most recent scholarship on ancient Indian law, society, and religion. Complex material is helpfully organized, making this the ideal edition for the non-specialist as well as for students of Indian society and religion.
The =Aśrama System
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195344782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--=aśrama and var.na--=aśrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the =aśrama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, he argues that the =aśrama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195344782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--=aśrama and var.na--=aśrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the =aśrama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, he argues that the =aśrama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.
The Baudhayana srauta sutra, belonging to the Taittiriya samhita
Author: Willem Caland
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788121260862
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9788121260862
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Memoirs of the Archæological Survey of India
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 732
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The Broken World of Sacrifice
Author: J. C. Heesterman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226323015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226323015
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.