International audienceThe Vedic Pravargya is a ritual that is optionally performed in connection with a Soma sacrifice. It is a unique Indo-Aryan development, without parallels in Iran or in areas of Indo-Europeans. Thanks to references to this ritual in the Rgveda, it can be traced back as far as 1500 B.C.E. We have a reasonably detailed knowledge of the Pravargya, but the term used as its name has so far never been properly analysed and interpreted. Several indications are available for the structure and semantics of pravargyà- but it is still far from clear what might be the underlying meaning of the term on the basis of which it was taken as a name for the ceremony and the pot. Difficulties are: (a) pravargyà- is from the beginning excl...
The present joint work finds its ground in a variation- oriented reading of the Vedic sources here a...
Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference (Bangkok, Thailand, 2015)Internati...
The word tejas, from root tij ‘sharpen’ and hence originally meaning ‘sharpness’, came very soon to ...
This study reviews the arguments of previous publications, and adds new ones, for establishing conne...
The Vedic sources contain dozens of occurrences of the compound iṣṭāpūrtá-, whose context deals with...
ABSTRACT: This joint work has its ground (and scope) in a variation-oriented reading of the Vedic so...
International audienceDiscussion of the meaning of the noun Vedic vedhás-, masculine, which refers t...
peer reviewedCette littérature rituelle, tant dans ses œuvres mytho-spéculatives (brāhmaņa’s) que te...
Sacrifice is a keyword in religious studies. Yajña is a governing concept of Vedic literature. On th...
The present joint work finds its ground (and at the same time its scope) in a variation- oriented re...
Different peoples have in their cultural and linguistic systems created individual conceptual catego...
International audienceThe earliest more or less datable events in South Asia's cultural history, the...
The term ‘ṛta’ is used in the specific sense in the RG Veda. The term “ṛta” occurs in the RG Veda ap...
The focus of the present research is to reconstruct the original meaning of the culturally dense ter...
According to the Vedic tradition and culture, yajña literally means sacrifice, devotion, worship, of...
The present joint work finds its ground in a variation- oriented reading of the Vedic sources here a...
Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference (Bangkok, Thailand, 2015)Internati...
The word tejas, from root tij ‘sharpen’ and hence originally meaning ‘sharpness’, came very soon to ...
This study reviews the arguments of previous publications, and adds new ones, for establishing conne...
The Vedic sources contain dozens of occurrences of the compound iṣṭāpūrtá-, whose context deals with...
ABSTRACT: This joint work has its ground (and scope) in a variation-oriented reading of the Vedic so...
International audienceDiscussion of the meaning of the noun Vedic vedhás-, masculine, which refers t...
peer reviewedCette littérature rituelle, tant dans ses œuvres mytho-spéculatives (brāhmaņa’s) que te...
Sacrifice is a keyword in religious studies. Yajña is a governing concept of Vedic literature. On th...
The present joint work finds its ground (and at the same time its scope) in a variation- oriented re...
Different peoples have in their cultural and linguistic systems created individual conceptual catego...
International audienceThe earliest more or less datable events in South Asia's cultural history, the...
The term ‘ṛta’ is used in the specific sense in the RG Veda. The term “ṛta” occurs in the RG Veda ap...
The focus of the present research is to reconstruct the original meaning of the culturally dense ter...
According to the Vedic tradition and culture, yajña literally means sacrifice, devotion, worship, of...
The present joint work finds its ground in a variation- oriented reading of the Vedic sources here a...
Volume 4 of the Proceedings of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference (Bangkok, Thailand, 2015)Internati...
The word tejas, from root tij ‘sharpen’ and hence originally meaning ‘sharpness’, came very soon to ...