Cooking the world : ritual and thought in ancient India
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Cooking the world : ritual and thought in ancient India
(Oxford India paperbacks)(French studies in South Asian culture and society)
Oxford University Press, 1998
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Cuire le monde
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Bibliography: p. [335]-348
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The fifteen essays collected in this book deal with various aspects of Vedic and Brahmanic ritual. The author attempts to explore the implications of the classical Hindu definition of man: of all the animals fitted to be sacrificial victims, only man can perform sacrifices.
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