Mantra Interpretation in the Śatapatha-Brahmaṇa

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Author:
Gonda
Copyright Year:
1988
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Abbreviations
Chapter One Introduction
Chapter Two Variant Readings
Chapter Three Reinterpretation of Ṛgvedic Mantras
Chapter Four Mantras not Found in the Ṛgveda- and/or Vājasaneyi-Saṃhitā
Chapter Five Mantras Found in Other Yajurvedic Texts and in the Atharvaveda-Saṃhitā
Chapter Six Stanzas and Mantras not Quoted or Commented upon
Chapter Seven The Author’s Points of View, Aims and Method
Chapter Eight Cosmogony and Interpretation of Myths
Chapter Nine Beliefs and Conceptions of the Vedic Aryans
Chapter Ten The Author’s Mode of Explanation
Chapter Eleven Character, Purpose and Effect of the Mantras
Chapter Twelve Rites, Ritualists and Mantras
Chapter Thirteen Amends and Prevention
Chapter Fourteen The Significance of a Single Word, a Name, the Metre or Dedication of a Mantra
Chapter Fifteen Mantras used More than Once
Chapter Sixteen Mantras Repeated in the Same Explanation
Chapter Seventeen Parallel Formulae
Chapter Eighteen Mantras Discussed Part by Part
Chapter Nineteen The Length of the Explanation
Chapter Twenty Affirmation, Variation, Reinterpretation
Chapter Twenty One Identification
Chapter Twenty Two Synonyms
Chapter Twenty Three Etymologies
Chapter Twenty Four Transfer of Meaning, Double Meaning, Paraphrase, Periphrasis
Chapter Twenty Five Other Word Forms and Grammatical Forms, Additions
Chapter Twenty Six Stylistic Peculiarities
Back Matter
General Index
Index of Sanskrit Words
Index of Sanskrit Text-Places
'...eine meisterhafte Leistung...'
Klaus Mylius, Indo-Iranian Journal, 1990.
'...a welcome detailed analysis...'
J.C. Wright, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1990.
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Brill
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English
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x, 285 pp.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004645707

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