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Books on: vedic literature

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In Quest of the Origins of Vedic Culture: The Indo-Aryan Migration Debate

Book by Edwin Bryant; Oxford University Press, 2000

Subjects:

India--History--To 324 B.C, Indo-Aryans--Origin, Indus Civilization

Collections: History, Entire Library

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed ...
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Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed to their argument. In this book, Edwin Bryant explores the nature and origins of this fascinating debate.
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Indian Theism: From the Vedic to the Muhammadan Period

Book by Nicol MacNicol; Oxford University Press, 1915

Subjects:

India--Religion, Theism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the beliefs and the literature, and that, in this...INDIAN THEISM FROM THE VEDIC TO THE MUH AMMADAN...with. The change from Vedic to more specifically...Bengali Language and Literature . Westcott...expresses itself in the literature and the language of...
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Encyclopedia of Literature

Book by Joseph T. Shipley; Philosophical Library, 1946

Subjects:

Literature--Dictionaries, Indexes, Etc, Literature--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LITERATURE Edited by JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY PHILOSOPHICAL LIBRARY...PREFACE THIS IS the first collection of surveys of the literatures of the world. Not counting minor dialects, men have...
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Buddhism: Its History and Literature

Book by T. W. Rhys Davids; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1896

Subjects:

Buddhism

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...The collection of Vedic hymns, as we now have...For we find in the literature extant in his time...historically invaluable, literatures of the Vedic schools, and of the...latest development in Vedic literature just before and after...
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The Transparent Eye: Reflections on Translation, Chinese Literature, and Comparative Poetics

Book by Eugene Chen Eoyang; University of Hawaii Press, 1993

Subjects:

Chinese Literature--Translations--History And Criticism, Translating And Interpreting

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...author, he tried to understand the literatures of the world in any language, to...was never a student of Japanese, Vedic, or Bengali. 8 Since then...of Chinese on the Imagists, of Vedic literature on Eliot, of Zen on the American...

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Journal Articles on: vedic literature

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When Texts Conceal: Why Vedic Recitation Is Forbidden at Certain Times and Places (Presidential Address)

Journal article by Patrick Olivelle; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 126, 2006

Subjects:

Indian culture--Analysis, Rites and ceremonies--Analysis, Ritual--Analysis, Rituals--Analysis, Vedic literature--Criticism and interpretation

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...the concealed heart of the rules governing the suspension of Vedic recitation. BIBLIOGRAPHY Beckman, G. 2005. The Limits of Credulity...1998. Caste and Purity: A Study in the Language of the Dharma Literature. Contributions to Indian Sociology 32: 190-216. Rpt. in Olivelle...
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The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate Recovery

Journal article by Jennifer L. Dougherty; Counseling and Values, Vol. 49, 2005

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate Recovery (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Entire Library

...hoped that The Spiritual Recovery Manual: Vedic Knowledge and Yogic Techniques to Accelerate...enlightenment by providing a review of recovery literature in his first chapter, including poignant...and for learning to meditate and study Vedic science. Closer attention and greater...
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Poetics and Pragmatics in the Vedic Liturgy for the Installation of the Sacrificial Post

Journal article by Theodore N. Proferes; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 123, 2003

Subjects:

Indian culture--Religious aspects, Liturgical language--Comparative analysis, Poetic techniques--Criticism and interpretation, Poetics--Criticism and interpretation, Vedas--Etymology

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...their own rites. Gonda, in his Vedic Literature published in 1975, generally accepted...methodological approach to the history of the Vedic liturgies, for it shows that the...direct information is provided by the Vedic texts themselves. In general, the...
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Remarks on the Vedic Intensive

Journal article by A. Lubotsky; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997

Subjects:

Civilization, Hindu--Analysis, Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb, Indian literature--Analysis, Vedas--Analysis

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...Wurzel" (p. 102). In the older literature, the present caste, 3pl. caksate...considered untenable(16) because Vedic caks- and Iranian *cas- show...ichneumons in the zoological literature. This meaning does not seem...root attested elsewhere in Vedic. Let us now return to the...
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The Vedic Imperatives Yodhi 'Fight' and Bodhi 'Heed'

Journal article by Jay H. Jasanoff; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, 2002

Subjects:

Sanskrit language, Vedas--Terminology

Collections: History, Entire Library

...grammarians. It was a reanalysis by the Vedic Aryans themselves...heed, see especially Jamison 1997, with literature. Jamisons point of departure is the present...cf. LIV 15) vestigially represented in Vedic by forms like cite appears (RV X 143.4...

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Magazine Articles on: vedic literature

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Humanitarian Swami

Magazine article by Robert R. Selle; World and I, Vol. 18, July 2003

Subjects:

Humanitarian aid--Ethical aspects, International Association for Human Values, Meditation--Methods, Meditation--Social aspects, Shankar, Ravi

Collections: Entire Library

...going to visit them one day." By the age of 17, he had completed his traditional education in both modern physics and Vedic literature. While he studied the scriptures intensively as a youth, today, he says, "Im not a big reader. Usually I just sit...
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Tradition in Transition: Sanskrit Education in Varanasi, India

Magazine article by Jan Protopapas; World and I, Vol. 13, September 1998

Subjects:

India--Education, Sanskrit language--Study and teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...contend with new and often conflicting challenges. Adhering to a traditional curriculum of Vedas, grammar, ethics, history, literature, ritual practice, and philosophy, they must also include nontraditional subjects such as Hindi, math, English, and general...
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Ceremonies in India

Magazine article by Babu R.R. Gogineni; Free Inquiry, Vol. 13, Fall 1993

Subjects:

Hinduism--Rites and ceremonies, India--Religious aspects, Rites and ceremonies--India

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ritualism and sacrificial nature of the Vedic religion. There were of course many...Hindu mythological and philosophical literature, apart from examining a few scanty, independent...profound thinkers who enriched Telugu literature. In 1930, during his deist phase, Ramaswamy...
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The Indus Civilization: Sudeshna Guha Looks at the Archaeology of the Indus Civilization, the Bronze Age Phenomenon of South Asia, Whose Study Began under the British and Has Continued since Independence and Partition of the Country. She Considers How the Interpretations for This Civilization Have Shaped and Been Shaped by Notions of an Authentic 'Indian Civilization'

Magazine article by Sudeshna Guha; History Today, Vol. 57, October 2007

Subjects:

Antiquities--Research, Bronze age--Research, Excavations (Archaeology)--India, Excavations (Archaeology)--Pakistan, Excavations (Archaeology)--Research, Indus Valley civilization--Research, Indus civilization--Research

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Marshall had correctly guessed to be a pre-Vedic civilization. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Research...to have begun with the Aryans and their Vedic Age, the Indus Civilization was typecast...the religion of the Indus Valley was non-Vedic, but that many of its features were absorbed...
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Ploughing the Clouds

Magazine article by Dp; Whole Earth, Summer 1999

Subjects:

Books--Reviews, Ploughing the Clouds: The Search for Irish Soma (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Entire Library

...Hymns of praise for Soma are central to the Rg Veda, the oldest literature of the Indo-Europeans. Students generally agree that Soma is...ancient Iranians and among the Greeks. The identity of the Vedic Soma plant has always been a matter of scholarly dispute, but...

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Newspaper Articles on: vedic literature

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When the Ancient Gods Came Back

Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, March 25, 2001

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Calassos take on the state of literature - where the old gods now exclusively...importance . . . " The ancient Vedic texts lead back to shared roots...encouraging picture of an "absolute literature." Subservient to no rules...vibrant oceanic expanse that the Vedic seers thought of as the mind...
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Hindu Teacher Given Award

Newspaper article by Larry Witham; The Washington Times, March 6, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Athavale was born in 1920 into the Brahman class. His grandfather and father were both teachers of classic Vedic, or Hindu, literature and traditions. Though a popular teacher of the Bhagavad Gita since age 23, Mr. Athavale gained an international...

Encyclopedia Articles on: vedic literature

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Sanskrit Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Introduction The literature is divided into two main periods the Vedic (c.1500 c.200...and its early literature overlapped the Vedic. The word Sanskrit...treatises dealing with Vedic ritual and customary...form of the past literature, which by this...
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Buddhist Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

BUDDHIST LITERATURE During his lifetime the Buddha taught not in Vedic Sanskrit, which had become unintelligible to the...M. Cummings, Lives of the Buddha in the Art and Literature of Asia (1982). ____________________ The Columbia...
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Veda

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...The Veda is the literature of the Aryans...their religion. The Vedic hymns were probably...Types of Vedic Literature Composed according...History of Indian Literature (3 vol., tr. 1927...Majumdar, The Vedic Age (1951, repr...
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Indo-Iranian

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...usually encountered only in Vedic Sanskrit. Kashmiri is the sole Dardic language that both has a literature and is recognized in the Indian...before the 15th cent. b.c. Vedic has been described as the parent...form was in use (at least for literature) until c.a.d. 1100. This tongue...
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Upanishads

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Upanishads, which form the last section of the literature of the Veda , were composed beginning...extant Upanishads, about 13 date from the Vedic period and the remainder are later, sectarian...regarding the real significance of the Vedic sacrifice and the source and controlling...

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