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The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India / Jamison, Stephanie W.
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The Ravenous Hyenas and the Wounded Sun: Myth and Ritual in Ancient India
Jamison, Stephanie W.
 
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  Book ID : 41718
  ISBN-10 : 81-215-1247-6 / 8121512476
  ISBN-13 : 978-81-215-1247-3 / 9788121512473
  Place of Publication : Delhi
  Year of Publication : 2013
  Edition : (First Indian Edition)
  Language : English
  xxi, 335p., Abb., Gloss., Index, 25 cm. (Originally pub. in 1991 by Cornell University Press)
   
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Vedic Sanskrit literature contains a wealth of material concerning the mythology and religious practices of India between 1500 and 500 B.C.E. - a crucial period in the formation of traditional Indian culture. Stephanie W. Jamison here addresses the conditions that have limited our understanding of Vedic myth and ritual, such as the profusion and obscurity of the texts and the tendency on the part of scholars to approach mythology and ritual independently. Tracing two key myths through a variety of texts, Jamison provides insight into the relationship between early Indic myth and ritual as well as offering a new methodology for their study. After a brief survey of Vedic literature and religion, Jamison examines the recurrences of the myths "Indra fed the Yatis to the hyenas" and "Svarbhanu pierced the sun with darkness." Focusing on their verbal form and ritual setting, she essays a general interpretation of the myths and their ritual purpose. Her book sheds new light on some central figures in Vedic mythology and on the evolution of Vedic mythological narrative, and it points to parallels in other cultures as well. Indologists and other scholars and students of South Asian culture, Indo-Eurepeanists, folklorists, historians of religion, classicists, and comparatists will welcome this rich and suggestive introduction to the Vedic tradition.
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