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Book Vedic Voices

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  • Author : David M. Knipe
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-01
  • ISBN : 0190266732
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Vedic Voices written by David M. Knipe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the 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. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children, and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After successful examinations these young men will reside with the Veda family girls they married as children years before, take their places in the oral transmission of a three-thousand-year Vedic heritage, teach the Taittiriya collection of texts to their own sons, and undertake with their wives the major and minor sacrifices performed by their ancestors for some three millennia. Coastal Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has received scant attention from historians of religion and anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. Vedic Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the region. Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside world.

Book Studies in Indian Epigraphy

Download or read book Studies in Indian Epigraphy written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accessions List  South Asia

Download or read book Accessions List South Asia written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 918 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.

Book Studies in Indian History  Epigraphy  and Culture

Download or read book Studies in Indian History Epigraphy and Culture written by Govind Swamirao Gai and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research papers on history, epigraphy, linguistics, and culture of India, with special reference to Karnataka.

Book Proceedings   Indian History Congress

Download or read book Proceedings Indian History Congress written by Indian History Congress and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Indian Historical Quarterly

Download or read book The Indian Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India

Download or read book Journal of the Epigraphical Society of India written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to Reference Materials on India

Download or read book A Guide to Reference Materials on India written by N. N. Gidwani and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotated bibliography on India; includes periodicals.

Book Proceedings

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  • Release : 1974
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1320 pages

Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ty  gar  ja Cult in Tamiln     u

Download or read book The Ty gar ja Cult in Tamiln u written by Rajeshwari Ghose and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiruvarur in the Thanjavur district of Tamilnadu was the centre of Saiva and Sakta worship from very ancient times. The Saiva cult revolved around the Tyagaraja icon enshrined in a temple bearing the name of the image. Interestingly, Tyagaraja is not the principle deity but a processional icon and is in fact an amalgam of three deities--Siva his consort Uma and their child Skanda. Tyagaraja is a Somaskanda and the first visual representation of this composite deity can be traced to the time of Pallava rule.

Book The Art of Ancient India

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  • Author : Susan L. Huntington
  • Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
  • Release : 2014-01-01
  • ISBN : 8120836170
  • Pages : 786 pages

Download or read book The Art of Ancient India written by Susan L. Huntington and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To scholars in the field, the need for an up-to-date overview of the art of South Asia has been apparent for decades. Although many regional and dynastic genres of Indic art are fairly well understood, the broad, overall representation of India's centuries of splendor has been lacking. The Art of Ancient India is the result of the author's aim to provide such a synthesis. Noted expert Sherman E. Lee has commented: –Not since Coomaraswamyês History of Indian and Indonesian Art (1927) has there been a survey of such completeness.” Indeed, this work restudies and reevaluates every frontier of ancient Indic art _ from its prehistoric roots up to the period of Muslim rule, from the Himalayan north to the tropical south, and from the earliest extant writing through the most modern scholarship on the subject. This dynamic survey-generously complemented with 775 illustrations, including 48 in full color and numerous architectural ground plans, and detailed maps and fine drawings, and further enhanced by its guide to Sanskrit, copious notes, extensive bibliography, and glossary of South Asian art terms-is the most comprehensive and most fully illustrated study of South Asian art available. The works and monuments included in this volume have been selected not only for their artistic merit but also in order to both provide general coverage and include transitional works that furnish the key to an all encompassing view of the art. An outstanding portrayal of ancient Indiaês highest intellectual and technical achievements, this volume is written for many audiences: scholars, for whom it provides an up-to-date background against which to examine their own areas of study; teachers and students of college level, for whom it supplies a complete summary of and a resource for their own deeper investigations into Indic art; and curious readers, for whom it gives a broad-based introduction to this fascinating area of world art.

Book Catalogue of Government of India Civil Publications

Download or read book Catalogue of Government of India Civil Publications written by India. Ministry of Works and Housing and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of Indian History

Download or read book Journal of Indian History written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Microforms in Print

Download or read book Guide to Microforms in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society  Bangalore

Download or read book The Quarterly Journal of the Mythic Society Bangalore written by Mythic Society (Bangalore, India) and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: