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Vedic Voices
Author | : David M. Knipe |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199397686 |
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"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"--
Vedic Voices
Author | : David M. Knipe |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Hindu civilization |
ISBN | : 0199397716 |
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Four generations of ten families in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra speak about their lives; ancestral lineages; decisions as Yajur Veda pandits, wives, and children; and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old oral tradition, the last in India who simultaneously recite and teach their Taittiriya texts and perform according to Vedic tradition the ancient animal and soma sacrifices, sometimes with sixteen priests for forty consecutive days.
Tracing the Path of Yoga
Author | : Stuart Ray Sarbacker |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2021-01-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438481234 |
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Clear, accessible, and meticulously annotated, Tracing the Path of Yoga offers a comprehensive survey of the history and philosophy of yoga that will be invaluable to both specialists and to nonspecialists seeking a deeper understanding of this fascinating subject. Stuart Ray Sarbacker argues that yoga can be understood first and foremost as a discipline of mind and body that is represented in its narrative and philosophical literature as resulting in both numinous and cessative accomplishments that correspond, respectively, to the attainment of this-worldly power and otherworldly liberation. Sarbacker demonstrates how the yogic quest for perfection as such is situated within the concrete realities of human life, intersecting with issues of politics, economics, class, gender, and sexuality, as well as reflecting larger Indic religious and philosophical ideals.
Rites of the God King
Author | : Marko Geslani |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780190862886 |
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Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani traces the emergence of a class of rituals known as santi, or appeasement. This ritual, intended to counteract ominous omens, developed from the intersection of the fourth Veda - the oft-neglected Atharvaveda - and the emergent tradition of astral science (Jyotisastra) sometime in the early first millennium, CE. Its development would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early-medieval Brahmanical society. The mantric transformations involved in the history of santi led to the emergence of a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu performers and practices. From astrological appeasement to gift-giving, coronation, and image worship, Rites of the God-King chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, unveiling the always-inventive work of the priesthood to imagine and enrich royal power. Along the way, Geslani reveals the surprising role of astrologers in Hindu history, elaborates conceptions of sin and misfortune, and forges new connections between medieval texts and modern practices. In a work that details ritual forms that were dispersed widely across Asia, he concludes with a reflection on the nature of orthopraxy, ritual change, and the problem of presence in the Hindu tradition.
Ancestral Voices
Author | : Ramesh Chandra Shah |
Publsiher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 8120830547 |
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Impersonations
Author | : Harshita Mruthinti Kamath |
Publsiher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520301665 |
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At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance centers on an insular community of Smarta Brahmin men from the Kuchipudi village in Telugu-speaking South India who are required to don stri-vesam (woman’s guise) and impersonate female characters from Hindu religious narratives. Impersonation is not simply a gender performance circumscribed to the Kuchipudi stage, but a practice of power that enables the construction of hegemonic Brahmin masculinity in everyday village life. However, the power of the Brahmin male body in stri-vesam is highly contingent, particularly on account of the expansion of Kuchipudi in the latter half of the twentieth century from a localized village performance to a transnational Indian dance form. This book analyzes the practice of impersonation across a series of boundaries—village to urban, Brahmin to non-Brahmin, hegemonic to non-normative—to explore the artifice of Brahmin masculinity in contemporary South Indian dance.
Voice of the Veda
Author | : Surya Kanta |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 106 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Vedas |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B361908 |
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Werner s Voice Magazine
Author | : Edgar S. Werner |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 806 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Elocution |
ISBN | : CORNELL:31924066348180 |
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