Heat and Sacrifice In The Vedas
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Detail Of Heat and Sacrifice In The Vedas
ISBN | 9788120808416 |
Pages | 339 |
Language: | English |
Product Code: | 1 |
Size(in cm): | 8.8" x 5.7" cm |
Weight(in grams): | 500(approx) |
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Contents
Foreword by R. Panikkar xi
Introduction 1
1. The Choice of Topic 1
2. Layout of our Study 5
3. Thanksgiving 8
Part I
THE CREATIVITY OF RITUAL HEAT IN THE VEDIC SACRIFICE (SRATA YAJNA) ACCORDING TO THE HYMNS (MANTRAS)
Chapter One: Preliminary Perspectives on the Problem 11
1. The Importance of the Sacrificial 'Means' and the Role of Fire with Respect to the Divine in the Mediterranean Religions and in India 11
2. The Role of Ritual Cooking in the Vedic Sacrifice 16
3. Etymology and Semantics of the Words Denoting Heat in the Vedas 19
Chapter Two: Ritual Heat as a Source of Energy in the Rgveda 24
1. The Texts 25
(a) The Soma Sacrifice (somayajna) 28
(b) The Horse Sacrifice (asvamedha) 32
(c) The Funeral Rite 40
2. Some Historical-Religious Parallels 45
3. First Consequences of Ritual Cooking as an Agent of Transformation 50
4. The Role of Sacred Heat in the Divine World 57
Chapter Three: Ritual Heat as a Source of Energy in the Atharvaveda 62
1. Sacred Heat in the Rite 64
2. Divinization and 'Cosmicization' of the Offering 66
3. Prajapati 74
Chapter Four: Ritual Heat as a Source of Energy in the Yajurveda and in its Brahmanas 79
1. General Premises Regarding the Effects Obtained by the Sublimation of Ritual Heat 79
2. In the Rite 88
(a) In General 88
(b) Different in the Amount of Heat Amounting to difference of Obtainment 94
3. Conclusion 97
Part II
THE CREATIVITY OF RITUAL HEAT IN SOME VEDIC RITES ACCORDING TO THE BRAHMANAS
Chapter Five: Animal Sacrifice (Pasuyajna or Pasubandha) 103
1. Circumambulation of Again (paryagni) 105
2. The Torch 113
3. Blood 116
4. Omentum (vapa) 117
5. The Sacrificial Cake (pasupurodasa) 135
6. The Cooked Offering (havis) 141
Chapter Six: The First Kindling of the Sacrificial Fire by the Head of the Family (Agnyadhana or Agnyadheya) 148
1. Gathering of the Material (Sambhara) 152
2. Preparation of the Fireplaces and Preliminary Rites 157
3. Kindling of the Sacred Fire 161
Chapter Seven: Construction of the Fire-alter (Agnicayana or Agniciti) 167
1. The 'Foundation Sacrifice' and Baking of the Brick 'Earth' 171
(a) The Myth 174
(b) The Foundation Sacrifice 176
(c) Making the Brick 'Earth' 180
(d) Baking the Brick 182
(e) Agnicayana, half murti and half altar 188
2. Making and Baking the Ukha 192
(a) Gathering of the Material 192
(b) Making the Ukha 193
(c) The Putting of the Ukha into the Furnace 196
(d) The Fumigation of the Ukha 197
(e) Baking 198
3. The Use of the Ukha During the Initiatory Period (diksa) 203
(a) The Transfer of the Fire 204
(b) The Use of the Ukha during the Diksa 208
(c) The Rite of the Steps of Visnu (visnukarmah) and Other Rites 211
Chapter Eight: Ritual Heat in the Pravargya 215
1. The History of Pravargya 218
(a) The Myth 220
(b) The Interpretation 223
2. The Intermediate Initiation (avantaradiksa) 230
3. Mahavira and How to Make and Bake it 237
4. Heating of Mahavira and its Place in the Rite 247
(a) Preliminaries of the Rite 248
(b) Kindling of the Sacred Fire 250
(c) Stirring the Sacred Fire 255
(d) Hierophany 256
(e) Adoration 257
(f) The Sacrificial Offering as a Sacramental Meal 261
(g) Sacrificial Creation through the Three Phases of the Boiling Process 265
5. Pravargya as Mystery About to Surpass the Ritual 267
6. Other Rites in Pravargya 268
Conclusion: Brahmanic Cosmology 270
1. Transformation of the Divine 270
2. Transformation of Man: His Immortalization and Divinization 281
Glossary 290
Bibliography 311
Indexes 317
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