Title: On strong-arms and drinking strength
Description: This book considers the ritualized poetic construction of male identity in the Rigveda, India's oldest Sanskrit text, and argues that an important aspect of early Vedic life involves the sustained promotion and embodiment of what it means to be a true man.
Subjects: Vedas, Criticism, interpretation, Soma in the Vedas, Masculinity in the Vedas, Vedas, rgveda, Indic literature, history and criticism