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Embodying the Vedas: traditional Vedic schools of contemporary Maharashtra

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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. The V...

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Main Author: Larios, Borayin Maitreya (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Thesis
Language:English
Published: Warsaw Berlin De Gruyter Open [2017]
Series:Open Access Hinduism
DOI:10.1515/9783110517323
Subjects:
Hochschulschrift
Schule
Studium
Veda
Vedismus
Brahmanismus
Maharashtra
Indien
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Author Notes:Borayin Larios
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • 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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