Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by FAS Department "Sanskrit and Indian Studies"
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Agnihotra Rituals in Nepal
(Oxford University Press, 2015)This chapter examines the history of the agnihotra in the Kathmandu valley. This ritual is Vedic, but is considered to be an antecedent to the tantric homa. The ritual is known to have been performed in Nepal by the fifteenth ... -
Female Rishis and Philosophers in the Veda?
(Asiatica Association, 2009)It is a traditional but common misconception that a considerable number of Ṛgvedic hymns were composed by women. Though female authors and interlocutors are not entirely absent from the Vedas the role of 'literate' women ... -
Gandhāra and the Formation of the Vedic and Zoroastrian Canons
(Biblioteca Bucureştilor, 2011)After several hundred years of text composition and accumulation, from the RV down to the Upaniṣads and the oldest Sūtras, the actual process of canonization remains unclear, just as the time and place where this took place ... -
The Hindutva View of History: Rewriting Textbooks in India and the United States
(Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, 2009)Organizations associated with India’s BJP political party and the Sangh Parivar have attempted to fundamentally and inaccurately revise textbooks to propagate a Hindu nationalist view in Californian and Indian schoolbooks. -
India's "Tīrthas": "Crossings" in Sacred Geography
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Inter-Religious Dialogue as a Christian Ecumenical Concern
(Wiley-Blackwell, 1985)Explores inter-religious dialogue in Christian ecumenical concerns. Discussion of mission and evangelism by the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism; Theological, developmental and peace-making work of the Church and ... -
The Linguistic History of Some Indian Domestic Plants
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Moving Targets? Texts, language, archaeology and history in the Late Vedic and early Buddhist periods
(Brill, 2009)The Late Vedic and earliest Buddhist texts are investigated to indicate their relative historical layering. Besides the texts themselves, their language, place names, archaeological and inherent historical background are ... -
Origin and Development of Language in South Asia: Phylogeny Versus Epigenetics?
(2012-04-12)This presentation begins with a brief overview of opinions on the origin of human language and the controversial question of Neanderthal speech. Moving from the language of the "African Eve" to the specific ones of the ... -
Pan-Gaean Flood myths: Gondwana myths -- and beyond
(Shikanda, 2010)Mythological compendia and indexes such as that by Stith Thompson create the impression that flood myths are rare in Africa and Australia. Erroneously, I too thought so in my short summary of Laurasian mythology (2001). ... -
Poetics and Pronunciation
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Prospects for Pluralism: Voice and Vision in the Study of Religion
(Oxford University Press, 2007)This paper addresses religious pluralism as an academic, civic, and theological challenge. Looking at religious communities in their connections and interrelations is a critical academic challenge for students of religion ... -
Shamanism in Northern and Southern Eurasia: Their Distinctive Methods of Change of Consciousness
(SAGE Publications, 2011)This article seeks to establish that the ‘southern’ shamanism of the San, Andamanese and Australian Aboriginals differs substantially from the well-known ‘classical’ Siberian version found in various forms in large parts ... -
Textual criticism in Indology and in European philology during the 19th and 20th centuries
(American Theological Library Association, 2014)This paper discusses the post-enlightenment development of philology in Europe during the 19th-20th centuries, particularly in the German speaking areas. After several centuries of sustained interest in the Graeco-Roman ... -
Traditionalism and Innovation: Philosophy, Exegesis, and Intellectual History in Jnanasrimitra's 'Apohaprakarana'
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Visiting Deities of the Hopi, Newar and Marind-anim: A Comparative Study of Seasonal Myths and Rituals in Horticultural Societies
(Traditional Cosmology Society, 2012)The mythologies and rituals of the three populations show a remarkable amount of overlap, in spite of their distant locations: in northern Arizona, the Kathmandu Valley, and southern New Guinea. They exhibit the mytheme ... -
Who Am I? The Self/Subject According to Psychoanalytic Theory
(SAGE, 2014-06-13)