Embodying the Vedas
Title | Embodying the Vedas PDF eBook |
Author | Borayin Larios |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2017-04-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110517329 |
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. The Vedas have been considered by many as the philosophical cornerstone of the Brahmanical traditions (āstika); even previous to the colonial construction of the concept of “Hinduism.” However, what can be pieced together from the Vedic texts is very different from contemporary Hindu religious practices, beliefs, social norms and political realities. This book presents the results of a study of the traditional education and training of Brahmins through the traditional system of education called gurukula as observed in 25 contemporary Vedic schools across the state of Maharasthra. This system of education aims to teach Brahmin males how to properly recite, memorize and ultimately embody the Veda. This book combines insights from ethnographic and textual analysis to unravel how the recitation of the Vedic texts and the Vedic traditions, as well as the identity of the traditional Brahmin in general, are transmitted from one generation to the next in contemporary India.
Vedic Voices
Title | Vedic Voices PDF eBook |
Author | David M. Knipe |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0199397694 |
"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"--
A Vedic Reader for Students
Title | A Vedic Reader for Students PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Anthony Macdonell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Vedic language |
ISBN |
The Destiny of the Veda in India
Title | The Destiny of the Veda in India PDF eBook |
Author | Louis Renou |
Publisher | |
Pages | 124 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Vedas |
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Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda
Title | Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda PDF eBook |
Author | Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 484 |
Release | 1902 |
Genre | Hindu mythology |
ISBN |
All about Hinduism
Title | All about Hinduism PDF eBook |
Author | Swami Sivananda |
Publisher | |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Hinduism |
ISBN |
Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda
Title | Vedic India as Embodied Principally in the Rig-Veda PDF eBook |
Author | Zénaïde A. Ragozin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1895 |
Genre | Hindu mythology |
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