Author: Sushama BedīPublisher: National Publishing House
ISBN: 9788189129194
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The Fire Sacrifice
Author: Sushama BedīPublisher: National Publishing House
ISBN: 9788189129194
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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My Sacrifice His Fire
Author: Anne OrtlundPublisher:
ISBN: 9781862582811
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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The Broken World of Sacrifice
Author: J. C. HeestermanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226922553
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
A ritual of fire sacrifice to the God of Wealth
Author: A Ritual of fire sacrifice to the god of wealth Vaisavarana
Author: A Ritual of Fire Sacrifice to the Five Sants of Christianity
Author: Chien-min ChenIndian Fire Ritual
Author: Musashi TachikawaPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120817814
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book is an attempt to explain the most basic ritual called Isti with the help of the original texts and the photographs of the actual performance of that sacrifice that took place in Pune, India, in July 1979. The book contains in all 140 photographs showing various stages of the sacrifice with explanation of the rites. It also provides a Roman transcript of the Sanskrit text of the Pavitrestiprayoga along with its English translation.
The Fire and the Rain
Author: Girish Raghunath KarnadPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
This play by one of India's foremost playwrights and actors is based on a story from the Mahabharata which tellingly illuminates universal themes - alienation, loneliness, love, family, hatred - through the daily lives and concerns of a whole community of individuals.
Vedic Fire Sacrifice and the Eucharist
Author: Rick Franklin TalbottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire
Languages : en
Pages : 998
Book Description
Author: C. M. Chen