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... Strong Arms and Drinking Strength: Masculinity, Violence, and the Body in Ancient India is an in-depth examination of ideas about manhood, masculinity, and martial potency in the representation of the Ṛgvedic person (both divine and human). Whitaker's work here is closely circumscribed, limited...

..., and the healing plant goddess ArundhatI, used in the treatment of fractures and wounds, and identified among others with laksa, the Sanskrit term for the resinous "lac." The mythology of Kustha links him closely both with the Rgvedic plant Soma, important to the sacrificial cults, and the Atharvavedic ArundhatI...

... ( karmāṇi ), and she notes Indra's prominence in Ṛgvedic Upanṣads, as well as the focus on the mystical syllable om in Ṛgvedic and Atharvavedic Upaniṣads. Although Cohen's readers will include the philologically literate, she writes for a wider audience, concisely and clearly providing background...

.... $74.50 (cloth); $19-95 (paper). It has often been said that the poets of Rgvedic hymns weave webs of confusion, and it is surely this murkiness that the beginning student of the Veda remembers most: synonyms tend to mount up; the deity being praised occasionally drifts out of sight; subjects, verbs...

..., 1995. ix, 331 pp. $74.50 (cloth); $19-95 (paper). It has often been said that the poets of Rgvedic hymns weave webs of confusion, and it is surely this murkiness that the beginning student of the Veda remembers most: synonyms tend to mount up; the deity being praised occasionally drifts out of sight...

.... Recitations are provided with parallel devandgari text and translation, including translations by Stanley Insler of Rgvedic verses used in recitations or stuti chants prescribed for the soma ritual. Thirty-seven plans of various hearths and altars are presented, including graduated versions of the dominant...

... by the meter of the Rgvedic verse from which they derive. The udgitha melody corresponds to the gdyatri meter. The meters and melodies are more important features of the mantras than the gods whose names may or may not occur in them. Because verses and meters are transformed to such an extent...

... of texts or from a group of interrelated and roughly contemporary passages. An example of the former approach is his paper, apparently his last, on Ananda where he takes the term from a Rgvedic sense of a drug-induced ecstasy, in which the ecstatic may hope for immortality, through a brdhmana passage...

... voice. Chapter 3, "The Middle Forms of Some Rgvedic Verbs," analyzes the contrasting functions of the active and middle forms of forty verb roots. The final chapter, "The Middle Voices of the Secondary Conjugations," examines causative, intensive, and desiderative stems in the same fashion...

.... These positions distinguish chanting from reciting the Rgveda, which is always done facing the east. Many sdmans have bizarre names and are set to melodies inspired by the meter of the Rgvedic verse from which they derive. The udgitha melody corresponds to the gdyatri meter. The meters and melodies are more...

.... 1982 ; in press. The ṛgvedic Ādityas . Baltimore : American Oriental Society . Bronkhorst Johannes . 1981 . “ Yoga and Seśvara Sāṃkhya .” Journal of Indian Philosophy 9 : 309 – 320 . Brough John . 1964 . “ The Chinese Pseudo-Translation of Ārya-śūra's Jātakamālā .” Asia Major 11...

... it appears that even in post-Rgvedic times, in the brdhmanas, brahmins are more than once explicitly said to be less distinguished than noblemen; transitions from, for instance, nobility to one of the other "orders" were possible, that is to say, individuals of different varnas (see below) could sometimes...

.... A dynamic approach to the Rgvedic compounds. JOIB 4 (June 1955). study of population growth with special 315-29. reference to India. IEJ 3 (Oct. 1955), BURROW, THOMAS. The Sanskrit language. 177-91. London, Fiber & Faber [1955] vii, 426 p. SINHA, S. M. Maternity statistics from (The great languages series...

... vidya 15 (1956), 80-109. . Rgvedic ballads. 1HQ 32 (Dec. 1956), 393- 154H56. UPADHYE, A. N . Once again, Valmlki-sutra a myth. Bharatiya Vidya 15 (1956), 28-31. VAIYAPURI PIIXAI, S. History of Tamil language and literature; beginning to 1000 A.D. Madras, New Century Book House [1956] 206 p. YAGNESWARA...

... and psychology and Eastern Values of Life. France-Asie n.s. 18 of the oriental mandala. PEW 11 (Jan. 1962) (May 1962), 303-306. 219-229. DEVARAJA, N . K. The tasks before Indian philo- CARDONA, GEORGE. Rgvedic sruvat. JO1B 12 (Sept. sophers. Quest no. 35 (Oct. 1962), 38-42. 1962), 1-4. DEVASENAPATI, V...

... 22 (May illus. 1958), 35-40. ARCHER, WILLIAM GEORGE. Central Indian paint- SASTRI, P. S. The Rgvedic principles of criticism. ing; with an introd. and notes. [London] Faber IHQ 34 (Mar. 1958), 6-20. and Faber [1958] 22 p. 10 mounted col. illus. SEN, PRABODH-CHANDRA. Kazi Nazrul Islam, the (Faber...

..., GEORGE. Faces of India; a travel nar- BHARGAVA, MANOHAR LAL. The geography of Rgvedic India; a physical geography of sapta Saindhava. Lucknow, Upper India Pub. House, rative. Illustrated with photos, by Ingeborg Woodcock. London, Faber and Faber [1964] 280 p. illus., map, ports. 1964. 157 p. CHATTERJEE...

... (1961), 505-510. RIEPE, PALE M. The naturalistic tradition in BHATTACHARYA, GOPIKAMOHAN. Monotheism vs. Indian thought. Seattle, Univ. of Washington polytheism. ALB 25 (1961), 423^28. Press, 1961. xi, 308 p. illus. BHATTACHARYA, PROMODE KUMAR. Rgvedic stud- SCHARFE, HARTMUT. Die Logik im Mahabhasya. ies...

... oblastiakh rasprostraneniia khindi. NAA no. 2(1968), 83-93. 13093. Datt, Ruddar. English, Hindi and the search of a link language. A ICC Economic Review 20, no. 1 (July 15, 1968), 11-12. 13094. Devasthali, G. V. Panini and Rgvedic exege- sis. ABORI48/49 (1968), 75-81.' 13095. Dutt, Chinmoy. Perso-Arabic...

..., 1963. 317 p. illus. (Hartford studies in linguistics, 3) GONDA, JAN. The aspectual function of the Rgvedic present and aorist. 's-Gravenhage, Mouton, 1962. 286 p. (Disputationes RhenoTrajectinae, 7) GOPALA IYENGAR, V. Second book of Sanskrit translation (for the degree classes). [3d. ed. Kumbakonam...