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Author Bodewitz, H. W., author.

Title Vedic cosmology and ethics : selected studies / by Henk Bodewitz ; edited by Dory Heilijgers, Jan Houben, Karel van Kooij.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2019.

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Series Gonda indological studies, 1382-3442 ; 19
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editors' preface -- Abbreviations (Texts) -- Introductory Article -- Chapter 1. The Hindu Doctrine of Transmigration: Its Origin and Background -- 1. Terminology -- 1.1. karman -- 1.2. Return and Rebirth (punarjanman) -- 1.3. moka -- 2. Ideological Framework -- 3. Textual Evidence -- Part 1. Yonder World -- Chapter 2. Der Vers vicakad tavo ... (JB 1, 18 -- 1, 50 -- KauU 1, 2) -- Chapter 3. Gab es damals auch dyumnas? Die Weltentstehung nach dem Jaiminya Brhmaa -- Chapter 4. The Waters in Vedic Cosmic Classifications
Chapter 5. The Fourth Priest (the Brahmán) in Vedic Ritual -- 1. The Brahmán as the Fourth Item -- 2. Silence -- 3. The Brahmán and the South -- 4. Complete Knowledge -- 5. Expiations -- 6. Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Yama's Second Boon in the Kaha Upaniad -- Chapter 7. Reaching Immortality According to the First Anuvka of the Jaiminya Upaniad Brhmaa -- Chapter 8. Life after Death in the gveda Sahit -- Chapter 9. The pañcgnividy and the pityna/devayna -- 1. Connection with the Agnihotra -- 2. The Katriya Motif -- 3. The pañcgnividy -- 4. The Journey to Heaven
5. The Separation of the devayna and the pityna -- 6. The Ultimate Situation of the One Who Follows the devayna -- Chapter 10. Redeath and Its Relation to Rebirth and Release -- Chapter 11. Yonder World in the Atharvaveda -- 1. Hell -- 2. Destination of Unfavourable Persons or Items -- 3. Rivals and Enemies -- 4. Return of the Deceased or Almost Deceased -- Chapter 12. Pits, Pitfalls and the Underworld in the Veda -- Chapter 13. Distance and Death in the Veda -- 1. gveda Sahit -- 2. Atharvaveda Sahit -- 3. Yajurveda Sahit and Vedic Prose
4. Evidence from the gveda and Atharvaveda Sahit -- 4.1. Sinners (Hell) -- 4.2. Rivals (Underworld or Hell) -- 4.3. Ordinary People and Pits (Underworld) -- Chapter 14. Classifications and Yonder World in the Veda -- 1. The Quarters of Space -- 1.1. East and West -- 1.2. South and North -- 1.3. The Quarters of Space and the Classes -- 1.4. More Than Four Quarters of Space -- 2. The Cosmic Classifications of the Worlds -- 2.1. The Sevenfold Classification -- 2.2. The Fourfold/Fivefold Classification -- 2.3. The Waters as Fourth or Fifth World
2.4. Cosmic and Microcosmic Identifications -- 2.5. Varua's Waters and the Fourth World -- 2.6. The Dhur Verses and the Cosmic Classification -- 3. Synthesis. The World of Death -- 3.1. The South and the Fourth World -- 3.2. Varua, the West, the Waters and the Fourth World -- 3.3. The North and the Fourth World -- 3.4. The Darker Side of the Pits -- Chapter 15. Citra's Questions in KauU 1, 1 -- Chapter 16. Uddlaka's Teaching in Chndogya Upaniad 6, 8-16 -- Chapter 17. The Dark and Deep Underworld in the Veda -- 1. Demons and Diseases -- 2. Sinners -- 3. Rivals and Enemies
Summary The articles by Henk Bodewitz collected in this volume, published between 1969 and 2013, deal with Vedic cosmology and ethics on basis of a systematic philological study of early Vedic texts, from the gveda to various Brhmaas, rayakas and Upaniads.
Subject Hindu cosmology.
Hinduism -- Doctrines.
Hindu ethics.
Cosmologie hindoue.
Hindouisme -- Doctrines.
Morale hindoue.
RELIGION / Hinduism / General
Hindu cosmology
Hindu ethics
Hinduism -- Doctrines
Added Author Heilijgers-Seelen, Dorothea Maria, 1949- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Bodewitz, H. W., author. Vedic cosmology and ethics Boston : Brill, 2019 9789004398641 (DLC) 2019013194
ISBN 9789004400139 (e-book)
9004400133 (e-book)
9789004398641 (hardback : alk. paper)
9004398643 (hardback : alk. paper)
Standard No. AU@ 000065784295

 
    
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