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The Vedas in Indian culture and history : proceedings of the Fourth International Vedic Workshop (Austin, Texas 2007) / edited by Joel P. Brereton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Alti studi di storia intellettuale e delle religioniPublisher: Florence, Italy : Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9788860323965
  • 8860323967
Related works:
  • Container of (work): Rocher, Ludo. Onset of Vedic studies
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 294.5921 23
LOC classification:
  • BL1112.27 .I55 2016
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
The onset of Vedic studies: H.T. Colebrooke and the Asiatic Society / Ludo Rocher. I. Grammar and text. A note on the temporal semantics of the Early Vedic past tenses / Eystein Dahl. A short history of Vedic prefix-verb compound accentuation / Hans Henrich Hock. Historical development and typology of dvandva compounds in the R̥gveda / Tamara Ditrich. Observations on Vedic accents in Grantha palmleaf manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- II. Religion and interpretation. The birth of the Twin Horse gods in India and in Greece / Henry John Walker. Lakṣmi: originally a marked animal / Madhavi Kolhatkar. Two ways to heaven: R̥V 10.14 and 10.16 / Madayo Kahle. The path to the yonder world / Julia Mendoza Tuñón. The funeral hymn of Br̥aduktha / Joel P. Bereton -- Iśā-Upanisad: history of the text in the light of the Upaniṣadic parallels / Mislav Jez̆ić -- III. Ritual, history, and society. R̥gveda 10.109, "the Brahman's wife" and the ritual Patní / Stephanie W. Jamison. What makes Indra Indra?: on indriyá in the R̥gveda / Jarold L. Whitaker. Rites for rain in the Vedic and post-Vedic literature / Shingo Einoo. The institution of Gotra, the R̥gveda, and the Brahmans. Rathakāro Manasā / Frits Staal -- IV. Atharvaveda studies. The big-bellied heap of Indra / Elizabeth Tucker -- "The bráhman that was first born of old..." as it was known by the Atharvavedins / Julieta Rotaru. A prosopography of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda families in Gujarat as seen uin their late Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts / Michael Witzel. Brides of the Biddha, or how Vedic marital customs served Buddhist ends / Karen Muldoon-Hules. Vedism and Brahmanism in Buddhist literature / Shrikant Bahulkar -- Epic Aśvamedhas / Alf Hiltebeitel. To be good is to be vaidika: on the genesis of a normative criterion in the Mānavadharmaśāstra / Federico Squarcini -- The Yājuṣa Hautra dispute in Early Modern Maharashtra / Madhav Deshpande. Notes on women and Vedic learning in the 21st century / Laurie L. Patton. Jīrṇa: reflections on Andhra Āhitāgnis on old age and dying / David M. Knipe.
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The onset of Vedic studies: H.T. Colebrooke and the Asiatic Society / Ludo Rocher. I. Grammar and text. A note on the temporal semantics of the Early Vedic past tenses / Eystein Dahl. A short history of Vedic prefix-verb compound accentuation / Hans Henrich Hock. Historical development and typology of dvandva compounds in the R̥gveda / Tamara Ditrich. Observations on Vedic accents in Grantha palmleaf manuscripts / Saraju Rath -- II. Religion and interpretation. The birth of the Twin Horse gods in India and in Greece / Henry John Walker. Lakṣmi: originally a marked animal / Madhavi Kolhatkar. Two ways to heaven: R̥V 10.14 and 10.16 / Madayo Kahle. The path to the yonder world / Julia Mendoza Tuñón. The funeral hymn of Br̥aduktha / Joel P. Bereton -- Iśā-Upanisad: history of the text in the light of the Upaniṣadic parallels / Mislav Jez̆ić -- III. Ritual, history, and society. R̥gveda 10.109, "the Brahman's wife" and the ritual Patní / Stephanie W. Jamison. What makes Indra Indra?: on indriyá in the R̥gveda / Jarold L. Whitaker. Rites for rain in the Vedic and post-Vedic literature / Shingo Einoo. The institution of Gotra, the R̥gveda, and the Brahmans. Rathakāro Manasā / Frits Staal -- IV. Atharvaveda studies. The big-bellied heap of Indra / Elizabeth Tucker -- "The bráhman that was first born of old..." as it was known by the Atharvavedins / Julieta Rotaru. A prosopography of the Śaunakīya Atharvaveda families in Gujarat as seen uin their late Medieval and Early Modern manuscripts / Michael Witzel. Brides of the Biddha, or how Vedic marital customs served Buddhist ends / Karen Muldoon-Hules. Vedism and Brahmanism in Buddhist literature / Shrikant Bahulkar -- Epic Aśvamedhas / Alf Hiltebeitel. To be good is to be vaidika: on the genesis of a normative criterion in the Mānavadharmaśāstra / Federico Squarcini -- The Yājuṣa Hautra dispute in Early Modern Maharashtra / Madhav Deshpande. Notes on women and Vedic learning in the 21st century / Laurie L. Patton. Jīrṇa: reflections on Andhra Āhitāgnis on old age and dying / David M. Knipe.