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...Hartmut Scharfe Religious Healing in the Veda, with Translations and Annotations of Medical Hymns from the Ṛgveda and the Atharvaveda and Renderings from the Corresponding Ritual Texts . By Kenneth G. Zysk . Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 75 , part 7...

...Richard Salomon The Medium in the Rgveda . By J. Gonda , Leiden : E. J. Brill (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina No. 24) , 1979 . vi, 202 pp. General Index, Index to Sanskrit Roots and Words. D.Glds. 80. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1980 1980 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

... to the evidence of the Ṛgveda Saṃhitā (the earliest text we possess from ancient India), and focused on the expression of notions of manhood found in the Ṛgvedic poets' lexicon. These limits notwithstanding, Whitaker brings great acumen to his study, employing throughout careful and extensive textual analysis...

... on the Sanskrit Grammarians . Cambridge : M.I.T. Press . Staal J. Frits . 1975 . Exploring Mysticism: A Methodological Essay . Berkeley : University of California Press and Harmondsworth: Penguin Books . Staal J. Frits . 1977 . “ṛgveda 10.71 on the Origin of Language.” In Revelation...

... in mystical speculation, Elizarenkova gives us a reason to be interested also in the details of verbal form; if we are interested in grammatical structure, she leads us to the mystery and mythology intertwined in the syntax. As she puts it, "the genre of the Rgveda, an archaic cultic poetic text, determines...

... of the same period (beginning of the first millennium B.C The_/B is primarily concerned with the interpretation of ritual chants that do not occur in the simpler rites involving Rgveda and Yajurveda but play an increasingly important role in the more complex Soma ceremonies, beginning with the Agnistoma...

... . 29 For this and the following see: Renou L. , Études sur le vocabulaire du Ṛgveda , I ( Pondichéry , 1958 ), 29 – 31 ; cf. Grassmann H. , Wörterbuch zum Rig-Veda ( Wiesbaden , 1955 ), pp. 1282 – 1283 . Other similar examples are likely to be found in the Atharvaveda...

... rites involving Rgveda and Yajurveda but play an increasingly important role in the more complex Soma ceremonies, beginning with the Agnistoma, or "praise of Agni." During this ritual, juice is extracted three times from Soma stalks by pressing or pounding them with stones. During the morning pressing...

... a particular emotionally charged tenor. Finally, Elizarenkova's analysis of syntax sheds new light on the question of the deliberate vagueness on the part of the poets. The entire Rgveda is rife with what she calls "loose syntactic bonds," often showing the ways in which the poetic and communicative contexts...

... in the Age of the Rgveda?” in Bull.Deccan College Res . Inst., 2 ( Poona 1940 ), p. 34 ff. 37 See e.g. Berriedale Keith A. , in The Cambridge History of India , 1 ( Cambridge 1922 ), p. 92 ff.; Apte V. M. , in The History and Culture of the Indian People , I ( London...

... N Z . Uber das Apadanabuch. 170-86. WZKSO 2 (1958), 1-21. BHAT, G. K. The genesis of Rgveda 11.12. (A General and Other proposed explanation.) JUB ns. 26 (Sept. 1957),25-33. AHMED, JALAL UDDIN. Contemporary painters of Pakistan. Karachi, Pakistan Co-operative Book Society [1958] 164 p. BHATTACHARYYA...

...-century Jaina doxographic text, develops its treatment of various systems out of a single, basic formula. Silvia D'Intino finds in the introductions to seventh- and fourteenth-century commentaries on the Ṛgveda indications that their authors held significantly different views on the nature...

... argues that Rgveda X.86, the Vrsakapi hymn, though not part of the fixed Asvamedha, may in fact reflect its original liturgy. Significant for hospitality and exchange are the crossovers between the rite in the Soma sacrifice and domestic hospitality observances, seen especially in epic narratives, both...

... MILLER University ofChicago The Medium in the Rgveda. By J. GONDA. Leiden: E. J. BRILL (Orientalia Rheno-Traiectina No. 24), 1979. vi, 202 pp. General Index, Index to Sanskrit Roots and Words. D.Glds. 80. One of the most elusive and difficult problems of Sanskrit grammar is a precise specification...

... Healing in the Veda, with Translations and Annotations of Medical Hymns from the Rgveda and the Atharvaveda and Renderings from the Corresponding Ritual Texts. By KENNETH G. ZYSK. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 75, part 7. Philadelphia: The American Philosophical Society, 1985...

..., the translators insert a reference to a nonexistent original Latin edition of Roger's OpenDeure (p. 138). On p. 93, they make things worse by adding "in German" to Schwab's own inaccurate statement (p. 102) on Max Miiller's famous edition of the Rgveda (1849-1874; see also p. 360, i.e., p. 381 of the original...

... (i.e., asvattha). When we examine botanical references in the Atharvaveda, our understanding of Vedic flora is enhanced by its apparent syncretism. Vedic botanical wisdom occurs largely in the hymns of the Atharvaveda and is connected to a tradition of healing plant goddesses. The hymns of the Rgveda...

... ) to counteract omens and pacify divine powers, as developed particularly in the Atharvaveda, and the services of experts in astrology. The rites and mantras “of Atharvan and Aṅgiras” constituted the “other” ancient priestly tradition running parallel to the “high cult” orthodoxy of the “three Veda” (Ṛgveda...

... in the Vedas, especially the Rgveda. underpinning to the line of argumentation. Interestingly, there is no discussion of pre- For example, the authors state that there is Vedic or Indus Valley Civilization predeces- no qualitative difference between the purusas sors. The authors stress the spiritual, intuitive...

... another Rsi this term is not used facetiously here and above, but in line with a conversation I had with Dr. H. D. Velankar at the University of Bombay meaning Dr. Velankar himself, denies the presence in the Rg Veda of bhafyi-type devotion, in the Introduction to his Rgveda Mandala VII (Bombay: Bharatiya...