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- Title The Broken World of Sacrifice: An Essay in Ancient Indian Ritual
- Author J. C. Heesterman
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 306
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-07-01
- ISBN 9780226323015 / 0226323013
- Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
- Dimensions 8.97 x 6.06 x 0.74 in (22.78 x 15.39 x 1.88 cm)
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- Religious Orientation: Hindu
- Library of Congress subjects Sacrifice - Hinduism
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92036751
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.534
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Paperback / softback. New. In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice--the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion.Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the "brahmanas," and the ritual manuals, the "srautasutras," Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire--the element of destruction--at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial…
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