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Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Duree
Av Michael Witzel, Richard K. Payne
E-bok, 2015
620 kr
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Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa …
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Av PAYNE, Richard K. Payne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2627 kr
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The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history, and is found in many different religious cultures. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric …
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Av Richard K. Payne, Michael Witzel
Häftad, 2015
895 kr
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The practice of making votive offerings into fire dates from the earliest periods of human history, and is found in many different religious cultures. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric …
Homa Variations
The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Duree
Av Michael Witzel, Richard K. Payne
E-bok, 2015
620 kr
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Found in many different religious cultures, the practice of making votive offerings into fire dates back to the earliest periods of human history. Throughout the tantric world, this kind of ritual offering practice is known as the homa. With roots in Vedic and Zoroastrian rituals, the tantric homa …
Katha Aranyaka
Critical Edition with a Translation into German and an Introduction
Inbunden, 2005
401 kr
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Dating to the first half of the first millennium BCE, the Katha Aranyaka is a ritualistic and speculative text that deals with a dangerous Vedic ritual that provides its sponsor with a new body after death. In a new, never-before-published critical edition, Michael Witzel, using available …
Veda in Kashmir, Volumes I and II
History and Present State of Vedic Tradition in the Western Himalayas
2021
1216 kr
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The Veda in Kashmir presents a detailed history and the current state of Veda tradition in Kashmir. It traces the vicissitudes of Vedic texts and rituals and their survival during some 400 years of Muslim rule. The peculiarities of the Śākalya Ṛgveda, Kaṭha Yajurveda, and Paippalāda Atharvaveda …
Rājyābhiṣeka Manual for the Coronation of King Bīrendra of Nepal (1975)
Introduction and Facsimile Edition
Inbunden, 2023
434 kr
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The Rājyābhiṣeka Manual for the Coronation of King Bīrendra of Nepal contains the only extensive coronation manual available for a Hindu king. It was used in the Rājyābhiṣeka rituals of King Bīrendra in February 1975. Long regarded as highly secret, it can now be presented, after the abolition of …
Lokaprakāśa by Kṣemendra with the Commentary of Sahaja Bhaṭṭa
Inbunden, 2019
842 kr
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The Lokaprakāśa by well-known Kashmirian author Kṣemendra (fl. 1050 CE) is a unique Sanskrit text that deals with details of public administration, from the king down to the village level. It includes private sale and mortgage documents as well as marriage contracts—documents that are little …
Two Oldest Veda Manuscripts
Facsimile Edition of Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā 1–20 (Saṃhitā- and Padapāṭha) from Nepal and Western Tibet (c. 1150 CE)
Inbunden, 2019
647 kr
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This volume offers unexpected insights into the history of the Veda, the earliest texts of South Asia, and their underlying oral transmission. In side-by-side facsimiles, Michael Witzel and Qinyuan Wu present the two oldest known Veda manuscripts, the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā of the White Yajurveda and …
