Embodying the Vedas : : Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra /

Embodying the Vedas : : Traditional Vedic Schools of Contemporary Maharashtra / / Borayin Larios.

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Popularly Hinduism is believed to be the world's oldest living religion. This claim is based on a continuous reverence to the oldest strata of religious authority within the Hindu traditions, the Vedic corpus, which began to be composed more than three thousand years ago, around 1750-1200 BCE....

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VerfasserIn:
Larios, Borayin,
MitwirkendeR:
Lubin, Timothy,
Place / Publishing House:Warsaw ;, Berlin : : De Gruyter Open Poland, , [2017]
©2019
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword / Lubin, Timothy
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Sanskrit and Marathi Words
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Framing the Veda: General Contexts
  • 3 The Vedic Schools in Contemporary Maharashtra
  • 4 Life in the Vedapāṭhaśālā
  • 5 Mimesis, Habitus, and Embodiment: Becoming a Vedamūrti
  • 6 Preservation or Innovation? Changes in the Transmission of Vedic Identity and Tradition
  • 7 Conclusion
  • Appendix 1: The Vedic Schools
  • Appendix 2: The Vikṛti Permutations of the Saṃhitā
  • Appendix 3: Images and Short Film of the Vedic Schools
  • Glossary of Commonly Used Terms
  • Bibliography
  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Index

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