The primary aim of this article is to provide a case study of textual hermeneutics in the context of Vedic literature. It will be shown how some interpretative pitfalls, into which contemporary translators have fallen, can be avoided if we broaden the perspective beyond the semantics of words and apply a principle of plausibility. The case study concerns the analysis of Ṛgveda 10.28, with special reference to the wildlife episodes depicted in verses 10cd-11ab. A few modern translations in Western languages of 10cd are here considered. Some of them show that a principle of plausibility has been actually taken into account by their authors while approaching the text, albeit the result does not seem always entirely satisfactory. Some other tra...
This article examines the manner in which two major world religions explain death. Bakshi claims tha...
The paper discusses two compositions about agriculture from Paippalāda-Saṁhitā (PS) 11. Found neithe...
This article is a companion piece to 'Licence and Faithfulness: Taking liberties with kathā in clas...
The Bhāgavatapuṛāna is one of the master-texts of the Sanskritic archive and is the foundational sou...
It is reported that in the animal sacrifice of the Agnicayana, five animals including a man are behe...
The Pārijātaharaṇa or theft of the magical Pārijāta tree is a well known episode in the life of the ...
Sacrifice is a major topic in the study of religious rituals, and one of the issues debated is its p...
The Vedic sources contain dozens of occurrences of the compound iṣṭāpūrtá-, whose context deals with...
The Maitrāyaṇī Saṁhitā [MS] IV.2, gonāmika chapter, contains descriptions of esoteric rites that d...
This paper examines two issues concerning the Rgveda, the oldest text of the Indian religious tradit...
This article discusses Daśaratha’s horse sacrifice at 1.8–16 in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. Daśaratha’s rite...
It is well known that, contrary to the transmission of the Vedas, the purāṇas continually incorporat...
Abstract: This book studies several mythical motifs, found in the Veda (especially in the Ùgveda) on...
This thesis tells two stories—one of how the god Kṛṣṇa’s humanity and divinity came to be defined in...
The term ‘ṛta’ is used in the specific sense in the RG Veda. The term “ṛta” occurs in the RG Veda ap...
This article examines the manner in which two major world religions explain death. Bakshi claims tha...
The paper discusses two compositions about agriculture from Paippalāda-Saṁhitā (PS) 11. Found neithe...
This article is a companion piece to 'Licence and Faithfulness: Taking liberties with kathā in clas...
The Bhāgavatapuṛāna is one of the master-texts of the Sanskritic archive and is the foundational sou...
It is reported that in the animal sacrifice of the Agnicayana, five animals including a man are behe...
The Pārijātaharaṇa or theft of the magical Pārijāta tree is a well known episode in the life of the ...
Sacrifice is a major topic in the study of religious rituals, and one of the issues debated is its p...
The Vedic sources contain dozens of occurrences of the compound iṣṭāpūrtá-, whose context deals with...
The Maitrāyaṇī Saṁhitā [MS] IV.2, gonāmika chapter, contains descriptions of esoteric rites that d...
This paper examines two issues concerning the Rgveda, the oldest text of the Indian religious tradit...
This article discusses Daśaratha’s horse sacrifice at 1.8–16 in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. Daśaratha’s rite...
It is well known that, contrary to the transmission of the Vedas, the purāṇas continually incorporat...
Abstract: This book studies several mythical motifs, found in the Veda (especially in the Ùgveda) on...
This thesis tells two stories—one of how the god Kṛṣṇa’s humanity and divinity came to be defined in...
The term ‘ṛta’ is used in the specific sense in the RG Veda. The term “ṛta” occurs in the RG Veda ap...
This article examines the manner in which two major world religions explain death. Bakshi claims tha...
The paper discusses two compositions about agriculture from Paippalāda-Saṁhitā (PS) 11. Found neithe...
This article is a companion piece to 'Licence and Faithfulness: Taking liberties with kathā in clas...