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Authority, anxiety, and canon : essays in Vedic interpretation / edited by Laurie L. Patton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in Hindu studiesPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1994.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 334 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585044678
  • 9780585044675
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Authority, anxiety, and canon.DDC classification:
  • 294.5/921 20
LOC classification:
  • BL1112.26 .A98 1994eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The mastery of speech : canonicity and control in the Vedas / D. Carpenter -- Veda in the Br-ahmanas : cosmogonic paradigms and the delimitation of canon / B.A. Holdrege -- The Veda and the authority of class : reduplicating structures of Veda and Varna in ancient Indian texts / B.K. Smith -- Pur-anaveda / F.M. Smith -- From anxiety to bliss : argument, care, and responsibility in the Ved-anta reading of Taittir-iya 2.1-6a / F.X. Clooney, S.J. -- "Whither the thick sweetness of their passion?" : the search for Vedic origins of Sanskrit drama / D.L. Gitomer -- The authority of an absent text : the Veda, Upangas, Upavedas, and Upnekhata in European thought / D.M. Figueira -- From interpretation to reform : Day-anand's reading of the Vedas / J.E. Llewellyn -- Redefining the authority of scripture : the rejection of Vedic infallibility by the Brahmo Samaj / A. Rambachan -- Poets and fishes : modern Indian interpretations of the Vedic Rishi / L.L. Patton.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The mastery of speech : canonicity and control in the Vedas / D. Carpenter -- Veda in the Br-ahmanas : cosmogonic paradigms and the delimitation of canon / B.A. Holdrege -- The Veda and the authority of class : reduplicating structures of Veda and Varna in ancient Indian texts / B.K. Smith -- Pur-anaveda / F.M. Smith -- From anxiety to bliss : argument, care, and responsibility in the Ved-anta reading of Taittir-iya 2.1-6a / F.X. Clooney, S.J. -- "Whither the thick sweetness of their passion?" : the search for Vedic origins of Sanskrit drama / D.L. Gitomer -- The authority of an absent text : the Veda, Upangas, Upavedas, and Upnekhata in European thought / D.M. Figueira -- From interpretation to reform : Day-anand's reading of the Vedas / J.E. Llewellyn -- Redefining the authority of scripture : the rejection of Vedic infallibility by the Brahmo Samaj / A. Rambachan -- Poets and fishes : modern Indian interpretations of the Vedic Rishi / L.L. Patton.

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