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Author: Uma Marina Vesci
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9788120808416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: H. Aguilar
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Interpretive study of the Hindu Rigvedic rituals.
Author: Israyēl Celvanāyakam
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9788173041044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Subhash Kak
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13: 9788120818774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Sadashiv Ambadas Dange
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 294
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rick Franklin Talbott
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 376
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Sacred Sacrifice" examines how analogous mythological ideas and the experience of sacred presence during the ritual act created similar ritual paradigms in two non-contiguous cultures. Vedic fire sacrifice, the Horse sacrifice in ancient India and the sacrificial development of the Christian Eucharist serve as examples. This book takes to task theories on sacrifice and ritual that emphasize the psycho-social and functionalist interpretation to the exclusion of the religious. The relationship between myth and ritual, and conscious and unconscious human behavior emerges from this analysis of universal religious structures.
Author: Liz Wilson
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 0791487016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
