Vedic Investigations Motilal Banarsidass The second alternative

The second alternative

yet the Rigveda remains probably the least understood of all the world's great scriptures

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and Simplicity

While it is evident that one objective of these early sources was to proselytize

Vedic Investigations Motilal Banarsidass The second alternativeThis volume contains 19 out of the 30 papers presented at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, some of them revised and updated. They discuss a wide range of topics, including: * the Atharvaveda in Varanasi * authorities cited in Pratisakhyas and Siksas * Rgvedic religion: Kingship and the Deva Asura problem * interiorization of ritual and the breaths in the Brahmana system of correspondencies * words signifying 'body' in the Rgveda * the Rgvedic hymn