Selected studies on ritual in the Indian religions
Subtitle: essays to D.J. Hoens
By: edited by Ria Kloppenborg.
Contributors: Hoens, Dirk Jan.; Kloppenborg, Ria.
Series: Studies in the history of religions ;; 45
Publisher: E.J. Brill
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
Subjects: Rites and ceremonies -- India.; Hinduism -- Rituals.
Notes: "Bibliography D.J. Hoens": p. [206]-208.
Table of contents: title: The concluding bath of the Varuṇapraghāsa / Jan Gonda; title: The fourth priest (the Brahmán) in Vedic ritual / Henk W. Bodewitz; title: The changing pattern of Pāñcarātra initiation / Sanjukta Gupta; title: Some beliefs and rituals concerning time and death in the Kubjikāmata / Teun Goudriaan; title: Protective covering (kavaca) / Karel R. van Kooij; title: Interpreting fire-walking / Kees W. Bolle; title: A magic kĕris from Kalimantan / Jan A. Schoterman; title: The earliest Buddhist ritual of ordination / Ria Kloppenborg; title: Spells on the life-wood / Losang Paldhen Gyalzur and Antony H.A. Verwey; title: Index of ritual terms.