Creating the Veda, living the Veda
Subtitle: selected papers from the 13th World Sanskrit Conference
By: edited by Joel P. Brereton. Theodore N. Proferes
Contributors: Brereton, Joel P., 1948- editor; Proferes, Theodore Nicholas, editor
Series: Suomalaisen tiedeakatemian toimituksia = Annales academiæ scientiarum fennicæ . Humanoria -- 379.; Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemian toimituksia -- nide 379.
Publisher: Academia Scientiarum Fennica
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Helsinki
Language: eng
Number of pages: 185
ISBN-13: 9789514111204
Subjects: Congresses; Criticism, interpretation; Sanskrit; Vedas; Veda
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: "Sacrificer's wife" in the Ṛgveda : ritual innovation?  -- Stephanie W. Jamison; title: The early evolution of the puróhita  -- Joel P. Brereton; title: Fire in the waters and the alchemical king  -- Theodore N. Proferes; title: Masculinity and violence in the Ṛgveda : defining the roles of nár, vīrá, and śūra  -- Jarrod Whitaker; title: Is the cosmic giant an Indo-European myth?  -- Ferenc Ruzsa; title: Stylistic analysis of coordinative nominal constructions for dual deities in the Ṛgveda  -- Tamara Ditrich; title: Mapping the poet in the Ṛgveda  -- Frank Köhler; title: Kauṣītaki-Upaniṣad : the development of the text and its final redaction  -- Mıslav Ježıć; title: Predicament of the Maitrāyaṇīya community in Maharashtra : migration, acculturation, and identity-crisis -- Madhav M. Deshpande.