The Atharvaveda (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Bloomfield, Maurice

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1330317831 ISBN 13 : 9781330317839

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Explore the Atharva-Veda as a living legacy of early Indian thought

This edition presents a clear, readable look at the Atharva-Veda’s character, history, and its place in the broader Vedic world, from its popular house-l ceremonies to its more formal, priestly traditions. The text explains how the Atharva-Veda differs from the Rig, Sama, and Yajus, and why its charms, blessings, and curses sit at the crossroads of everyday life and ancient ritual. It covers the development of its redaction, its relationship to the Brahmanas, and how scholars trace its lines of thought through language, metre, and myth. You’ll see how the collection blends folk beliefs with Brahmanical ideas, and how this mix shaped later ritual and literature.

• Foundational overview of structure, themes, and scope
• Discussion of how Atharvanic charms, spells, and rites fit into Vedic practice
• Analysis of the Atharva-Veda’s chronology and its relation to other Brahmanical texts
• Insights into the cultural and linguistic differences within the Vedic tradition

Ideal for readers seeking context on early Indian religion, ritual practice, and the evolution of Vedic literature. This edition helps you understand the Atharva-Veda beyond isolated hymns, framing it as a dynamic part of ancient spirituality and daily life.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Atharvaveda

2. Relative chronology of the popular and hieratic literatures. - Anyhow this difference of nomenclature between the three Vedas on the one side and the Atharvan on the other is an important and profound one in the history of Vedic literature. Leaving aside the beginnings of speculative theosophic literature which are represented freely in both types (Rv. and Av.), we are lead to two main divisions of Vedic literature, the three Vedas with their soma-sacrifices, and the Av. with the house-ceremonies (grhya) i.e., respectively, the hieratic and the popular religion. The statement put in this form is of importance for the relative chronology of the Atharvan writings: it becomes evident at once, and from the ethnological point of view a fortiore that there can have been no period of Vedic history in which house-customs and mantras of essentially Atharvanic character were wanting,; while at the same time the more elaborate hieratic mantras and soma-sacrifices were present. In fact, in some form or other both are prehistoric. The hieratic religion joins the Avestan haoma-worship; the Atharvanic charms and practices are very likely rooted in an even earlier, perhaps Indo-European, antiquity. At least, he who does not regard the analoga between Atharvanic charms and practices and those of the Teutonic and other I.E. peoples as entirely accidental (anthropological) must hesitate to ascribe all the mantras of the Av. and Grhyasutras to a late Vedic period. In the case of some, e.g. the wedding-charms and the funeral hymns, this is manifestly impossible; it is not less so in the case of at least some hymns embodied in the Av. Samhitas alone, as, e, g. 4. 12.This point of view gains much firmness from a complete survey of the vast armory of charms, blessings, and curses contained in the Av., such as may be gained by reading over the analysis of the vulgate as given in this book (Part Iii). What is the nature of the impulse which created e...

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The Atharvaveda

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330317831
• ISBN 13: 9781330317839
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 140
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