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Scholars of Vedic religion have long recognized the centrality of ritual categories to Indian thought. There have been few successful attempts, however, to bring the same systematic rigor of Vedic Scholarship to bear on later "Hindu" ritual. Excavating the deep history of a prominent ritual category in "classical" Hindu texts, Geslani traces the emergence of a class of rituals known as santi , or appeasement. This ritual, intended to counteract ominous omens, developed from the intersection of the fourth Veda - the oft-neglected Atharvaveda - and the emergent tradition of astral science (Jyotisastra) sometime in the early first millennium, CE. Its development would come to have far-reaching consequences on the ideal ritual life of the king in early-medieval Brahmanical society. The mantric transformations involved in the history of santi led to the emergence of a politicized ritual culture that could encompass both traditional Vedic and newer Hindu performers and practices. From astrological appeasement to gift-giving, coronation, and image worship, Rites of the God-King chronicles the multiple lives and afterlives of a single ritual mode, unveiling the always-inventive work of the
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- Author
- Geslani, Marko;
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press : [distributor] Oxford University Press Distribution Services : [distributor] Oxford University Press Australia : [distributor] Oxford University Press Australia : [distributor] Oxford University Press Southern Africa : [distributor] Oxford University Press Inc. USA
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780190862893
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Science, Religion
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