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Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas by Uma Marina Vesci Pdf
In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
This Book Deals With Post-Vedic Developments In Under-Standing The Concept Of Sacrifice (Yajna) And The Response Of The Bhagavad Gita To It. The Book Argues That The Upanishads Present Vedic Ritual Notions Together With The New Teachings Of The Wandering Renouncers (Sramanas) Who Posed A Formidable Challenge To The Ritual Tradition And Its Social Hierarchy.
This book describes the ASVAMEDHA rite and its symbolism to explain distinctive aspects of the Vedic sacrifice system. Several questions related to the Asvamedha are posed and answered in the context of Vedic epistemology. This rite has three important functions: (i) it presents and equivalence of the naksatra year to the heaven, implying that it is rite that celebrates the rebirth of the Sun; (ii) it is symbolic of the conquest of Time by the king, in whose name the rite is performed; and (iii) it is celebration of social harmony achieved by the transcendence of the fundamental conflicts between various sources of power. Numbers from another Vedic rite, the Agnicayana; help in the understanding of several of its details.
Author : Liz Wilson Publisher : State University of New York Press Page : 224 pages File Size : 48,9 Mb Release : 2012-02-01 Category : Social Science ISBN : 9780791487013
This collection examines the social dimensions of death in South Asian religions, exploring the ritualized exchanges between the living and the dead performed by Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims, and other religious groups. Using ethnographic and historical tools associated with the comparative and historical study of religion, the contributors also record the voices and actions of marginalized groups—such as tribal peoples, women, and members of lower castes—who are often underrepresented in studies of South Asian deathways, which typically focus on the writings and practices of elite groups. For many religious people, death entails a journey leading to some new condition or place. As the ultimate experience of passage, it is highly ceremonial and ritualized, and those beliefs and practices associated with the moment of death itself—death-bed ceremonies, funerary rites, and rituals of mourning and of remembering—are examined here. The Living and the Dead offers historical depth, ethnographic detail, and conceptual clarity on a subject that is of immense importance in South Asian religious traditions.
Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity by Anonim Pdf
In Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity it is demonstrated how sacrificial themes remain an essential element in our post-modern society.
Author : J. C. Heesterman Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 307 pages File Size : 47,8 Mb Release : 2012-12-10 Category : Religion ISBN : 9780226922553
The Broken World of Sacrifice by J. C. Heesterman Pdf
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.
Surā, the Liquor and the Vedic Sacrifice by Madhavi Bhaskar Kolhatkar Pdf
The Work Offers An In-Depth Study Of The Sautramani Vedic Sacrifice In Its Caraka And Kaukili Forms. It Shows How The Brahmanas Compare It With A Soma Sacrifice, And How Sautramani Itself Has Evolved Over Time.
Author : David M. Knipe Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA Page : 369 pages File Size : 45,5 Mb Release : 2015 Category : History ISBN : 9780199397693
"Four generations of ten families speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, choices as pandits, wives, and children, ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition"--
