Language and Style of the Vedic Ṛṣis (SUNY series in Hindu Studies) - Tapa dura

Elizarenkova, Tatyana J.

 
9780791416679: Language and Style of the Vedic Ṛṣis (SUNY series in Hindu Studies)
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ISBN 10: 0791416674 ISBN 13: 9780791416679
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 1994

Sinopsis

Elizarenkova, perhaps the greatest living scholar of the Rand certainly its greatest linguist, explains here the relationships between a very complicated grammatical system and the peculiarities of style of the archaic religious poetry. The laudatory hymn is treated as an act of verbal communication between the poet Rand the deity, with the hymn itself transmitting certain information from man to god. From this viewpoint, the hymn is used as a means to maintain a circular exchange of gifts between the Rand their gods.

Many peculiarities of the functioning of the grammatical system of the Rare interpreted in connection with the model of the universe of the Vedic Aryan. For example, the concept of time as a circular process bears closely on the use of the verbal grammatical categories of tense and mood; the personification of some abstract forces can explain some irregularities in the functioning of the nominal category of gender; and the idea of magical power attributed to the Sacred Speech in general, and to the name of a god in particular, underlies the magical grammar of this religious poetry.

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Wendy Doniger is Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions in the Divinity School, University of Chicago. She is the author of many books, including The Hindus: An Alternative History.

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State University of New York Press
Año de publicación
1994
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0791416674
ISBN 13 
9780791416679
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Número de páginas
342
Editor
Doniger Wendy
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