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Author : Jan Gonda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Indo-European languages
ISBN : UOM:39015005604312
Author : Torsten Meissner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199280087
Torsten Meissner examines a group of nouns and adjectives, all formed with the same suffix, and explains their morphology and semantics, from prehistoric times throughout the Classical period of Greece, furthering our understanding of the Greek language.
Author : William K. Mahony
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791435806
Provides an accessible introduction to the Vedic religious world by focusing on the role of divine and human imagination in sacred texts.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Diagnosis
ISBN : 9004038922
Author : D. Wujastyk
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0140436804
Ayurveda, the ancient art of healing, has been practiced in India for more than two thousand years and survives today as a living medical tradition whose principles are at the heart of many "alternative" therapies now used in the West. This "science of longevity" has parallels with Buddhist thought, and advocates a life of moderation through which the three humors of the body will be brought into balance. The writings selected for this volume are taken from Sanskrit medical texts written by the first Ayurvedic physicians, who lived between the fifth century b.c. and the fourteenth century a.d. Here readers will find wide-ranging and fascinating advice on the benefits of garlic therapy, prayers for protection against malevolent disease deities, surgical techniques, exercise regimens, the treatment of poisons, the interpretation of dreams, and more.
Author : Dick van der Meij
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136821141
First published in 1997. The International Institute for Asian Studies (lIAS) is pleased to introduce a new series 'Studies from the International Institute for Asian Studies'. This present volume, India and Beyond; Aspects of Literature Meaning, Ritual and Thought, contains more than 30 contributions from well-established scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds. These essays are in honour of one of the founding fathers of the lIAS, Frits Staal, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and South Asian Languages, University of California at Berkeley. This volume is edited by Dick van der Meij, editor of the Indonesian-Netherlands Cooperation in Islamic Studies Programme at Leiden University.
Author : James McHugh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197603031
The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and styles of drinking, as well as rationales for abstinence from the earliest Sanskrit written records through the second millennium CE. Books about the global history of alcohol almost never give attention to India. But a wide range of texts provide plenty of evidence that there was a thriving culture of drinking in ancient and medieval India, from public carousing at the brewery and drinking house to imbibing at festivals and weddings. There was also an elite drinking culture depicted in poetic texts (often in an erotic mode), and medical texts explain how to balance drink and health. By no means everyone drank, however, and there were many sophisticated religious arguments for abstinence. McHugh begins by surveying the intoxicating drinks that were available, including grain beers, palm toddy, and imported wine, detailing the ways people used grains, sugars, fruits, and herbs over the centuries to produce an impressive array of liquors. He presents myths that explain how drink came into being and how it was assigned the ritual and legal status it has in our time. The book also explores Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain moral and legal texts on drink and abstinence, as well as how drink is used in some Tantric rituals, and translates in full a detailed description of the goddess Liquor, Suradevi. Cannabis, betel, soma, and opium are also considered. Finally, McHugh investigates what has happened to these drinks, stories, and theories in the last few centuries. An Unholy Brew brings to life the overlooked, complex world of brewing, drinking, and abstaining in pre-modern India, and offers illuminating case studies on topics such as law and medicine, even providing recipes for some drinks.
Author : J. Gonda
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110908923
This book is primarily intended to be an Investigation into the Meaning and Religious significance of the important Vedic term dhi, which has been variously and often inadequately translated.
Author : Jacob Ensink,Peter Gaeffke
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : India
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Jarrod L. Whitaker Assistant Professor of South Asian Religions Wake Forest University
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199857647
Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma, who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The dominant image of Indra is that of a highly glamorized, violent, and powerful Aryan male; the three gods represent the ideals of manhood. Whitaker finds that the Rgvedic poet-priests employed a fascinating range of poetic and performative strategies--some explicit, others very subtle--to construct their masculine ideology, while justifying it as the most valid way for men to live. Poet-priests naturalized this ideology by encoding it within a man's sense of his body and physical self. Rgvedic ritual rhetoric and practices thus encode specific male roles, especially the role of man as warrior, while embedding these roles in a complex network of social, economic, and political relationships. Strong Arms and Drinking Strength is the first book in English to examine the relationship between Rgvedic gods, ritual practices, and the identities and expectations placed on men in ancient India.
Author : Dagmar Wujastyk,Frederick M. Smith
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780791478165
A comprehensive overview of Ayurveda.
Author : Robert P. Goldman,Muneo Tokunaga
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Mahābhārata
ISBN : 8120833821
Recent years have witnessed continued and growing interest in the massive and fascinating poems we know as the Sanskrit epics. This interest has manifested itself in the continuing translations of texts, a steady stream of publications and numerous scholarly meeting of Sanskrit epic scholars. A number of these scholars assembled in Helsinki to constitute the Epic Section of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in the summer of 2003. The present volume places before the indological community the sixteen learned papers presented at the conference by the distinguished group of scholars who were in attendance. The topics and methodologies of the authors are as varied and diverse as the contents of the monumental poems themselves but each contribution sheds new light on some aspect of he genetic and /or receptive history of these works, their relationship to each other and to other index texts, or the representation and analysis of specific characters and episodes in the poems
Author : Olle Qvarnström
Publisher : Jain Publishing Company
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780895819567
A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range of topics in both religions.
Author : Jarrod Whitaker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199755707
Jarrod L. Whitaker examines the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rgveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, arguing that an important aspect of early Vedic life was the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man. The Rgveda contains over a thousand hymns, addressed primarily to three gods: the deified ritual Fire, Agni; the war god, Indra; and Soma, who is none other than the personification of the sacred beverage soma. The hymns were sung in day-long fire rituals in which poet-priests prepared the sacred drink to empower Indra. The dominant image of Indra is that of a highly glamorized, violent, and powerful Aryan male; the three gods represent the ideals of manhood.Whitaker finds that the Rgvedic poet-priests employed a fascinating range of poetic and performative strategies--some explicit, others very subtle--to construct their masculine ideology, while justifying it as the most valid way for men to live. Poet-priests naturalized this ideology by encoding it within a man's sense of his body and physical self. Rgvedic ritual rhetoric and practices thus encode specific male roles, especially the role of man as warrior, while embedding these roles in a complex network of social, economic, and political relationships.Strong Arms and Drinking Strength is the first book in English to examine the relationship between Rgvedic gods, ritual practices, and the identities and expectations placed on men in ancient India.
Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120840348
This book is a study of India's great epic, the Mahabharata, against the background of Indo-European myth, epic and ritual. It builds upon the pioneering studies in these areas by Georges Dumezil and Stig Wikander to work toward the goal of understanding how this epic's Indo-European heritage is interpreted and reshaped within the setting of bhakti or devotional Hinduism. The book begins with a comparative typology of traditional classical epics, arguing that epic is a distinctive mythical genre, and that the Mahrib/grata in particular should be studied as part of an Indo-European epic (and not just mythical) continuum. The reshaping of Indo-European themes is then examined in relation to the Mahabharata's central mystery: the figure of Krishna, hero and ally of the Pandava brothers in their struggles against their cousins, the Kauravas, and incarnation of Visnu. The study argues that Krishna figures in the epic at the center of a coherent theological ensemble that builds upon continuities in Indo-European, Vedic and particularly Brahmanic sacrificial idioms. Ultimately, Krishna guides the forces of dharma or righteousness through a great "sacrifice of battle" whose eschatological background recalls Indo-European and Vedic themes, while projecting them into the Hindu bhakti cosmology of universal dissolution, recreations and divine grace. The study vigorously opposes attempts to "explain" Krishna by arbitrary theories of the Maluibhdrata's growth through interpolations.