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The Vedic Origins of Karma: Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual

The Vedic Origins of Karma: Cosmos as Man in Ancient Indian Myth and Ritual

Paperback

Series: Suny Hindu Studies

Hinduism

ISBN10: 0791400956
ISBN13: 9780791400951
Publisher: St Univ Of New York Pr
Published: Aug 15 1989
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In this book, the author seeks access to Karma's origins by following several clues suggested by the doctrine's earliest formulation in the Upanistexts (circa 600-500 B.C.) These clues lead back to the mythical and ritual structures firmly established in the Brahmana texts, texts concerned with the rituals that chronologically and conceptually precede the UpanisThe rise of the karma doctrine is tied to the increasing dominance in late Vedic thought of the cosmic man (Purusa/Prajapati) mythology and its ritual analogue the building of the fire altar (agnicayana).

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