Religionsgeschichtliche Versuche und Vorarbeiten

Berlin/Boston : : De Gruyter, , 1996.

1 online resource (580 p.)

Description based upon print version of record.. - Avhandling (doktorgrad) - University of Chicago Divinity School, 1991. - Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Part I: Myth, Commentary, and the History of the Bṛhaddevatā; Chapter One: The Basics of the Bṛhaddevatā: Text and Context; Pestles and Mantras; The Nature of the Text; The Text and Its History; Macdonell and Tokunaga: Retentive or Expansive Scribes?; Building on Arguments about Recensions; The Bṛhaddevatā in Intellectual Context; The Tradition of Śaunaka; The Brāhmaṇas; The Nirukta; Mīmāṃsā; Conclusions; Chapter Two: Making Arguments: Canonical Commentary and Mythological Narrative; The Category of Canonical Commentary. - A New Mode of OrganizationItihāsa/ Ākhyāna; The European Appropriation; Origins and Sources; A New Approach to Itihāsa; A New Approach to the Bṛhaddevatā; Conclusions and Projections; Chapter Seven: The Power of Persuasion: Ṛṣisis in Parity with the Gods; Ṛṣis and Gods in Vedic Context: A Modified Model; Euhemerism Mythologized; Ṛṣis, Gods, Sons; Getting the Gods to Listen; A Nirukti Itihāsa: The Ṛṣi Worshipped by Indra; The Mutual Dependence of the Praised and the Praiser; Rescued from Infertility; Ṛṣis and Their Divine Fathers; Helping Indra Appear; Gaining Attention and Absolving Gods. - Chapter Four: Language and Cosmology I: Taxonomies of MantraGrammar and the Power of Language; Grammar and Cosmology in India; The Motivated List: Supporting Canonical Language; Exemplifying Canonical Language: Tracking the Taxonomies; The Role of Native Taxonomies; The Bṛhaddevatā's Taxonomy: A Thick Description; The Difference Canon Makes in Taxonomizing: A Comparative Assessment; Conclusions; Chapter Five: Language and Cosmology II: Etymologies and Other Linguistic Speculations; The Problems of Etymology; A New Terminology; Niruktis in Vedic Interpretation; The Nirukta. - Gods/ Ṛṣisis/ Gods/Ṛṣisis. - Niruktis in the BṛhaddevatāTidying up the Universe: Separating the Spheres through Nirukti; Exemplifying the Cosmos: Niruktis as Theology; Theology by Subordination; Addressing Ambiguities: The Case of Vāc; Further Linguistic Speculation on Canon; The Question of Meaning; The Cosmology of Loose Ends: Closing off the Canon; Cultivating the Fields; Accounting for Rubble; The Rhythm of Canon: The Meters and Tones; The Attainment of Brahman through Commentary Itself; Conclusions; Part Three: Situating the Canon; Chapter Six: Arguments about Myth: The History of the Itihāsa/ Ākhyāna Controversy. - The Anukramaṇī as Commentarial StrategyThe Bṛhaddevatā as Commentarial Totalization; Mythological Narratives: A Process of Reading; Myth as Argument; The Case of Vedic Myth; The Problem of Historical Origins; The Problem of Archetypal Myth; Vedic Narrative as Commentarial Argument; Conclusions; Part Two: Framing the Canon; Chapter Three: Patterns of Thought: The Bṛhaddevatā Introduces Itself; On the Question of Coherence; Mantra; Mantra in the Bṛhaddevatā; Devatā as Meta-Grouping; Claiming Privilege; Classifying Canonical Language; The Nature and Origin of Canonical Language; Conclusions

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