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Authority, Anxiety, and Canon : Essays in Vedic Interpretation SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
author
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Patton, Laurie L.
publisher
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State University of New York Press
isbn10 | asin
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0791419371
print isbn13
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9780791419373
ebook isbn13
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9780585044675
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English
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Vedas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
publication date
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1994
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BL1112.26.A98 1994eb
ddc
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294.5/921
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Vedas--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Authority, Anxiety, and Canon
SUNY Series in Hindu Studies Wendy Doniger, editor
Authority, Anxiety, and Canon
Essays in Vedic Interpretation
Edited by Laurie L. Patton
State University of New York Press
The cover illustration is from a manuscript of the Razm-nama*, ascribed to kanha* (late sixteenth century). It is reproduced in Indian Miniatures: The Ehrenfeld Collection, by Daniel J. Ehnbom; with essays by Robert Skelton and Pramod Chandra (New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with the American Federation of Arts: Distributed by Viking Penguin, 1985), Folio #13, "A brahmana* and his son Medhavin* discourse on the path to salvation."
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
1994 State University of New York
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Authority, anxiety, and canon: essays in Vedic interpretation / edited by Laurie L. Patton. p. cm. (SUNY series in Hindu studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7914-1937-1 (hc). ISBN 0-7914-1938-X (pb) 1. VedasCriticism, interpretation, etc. I. Patton, Laurie L. II. Series. BL1112.26.A98 1993 294.5'921dc2093-25748 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 21
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CONTENTS
Preface
Wendy Doniger
vii
Introduction
Laurie L. Patton
1
Part One The Vedas Reflect on Themselves
1 The Mastery of Speech Canonicity and Control in the Vedas
David Carpenter
19
2 Veda in the Brahmanas* Cosmogonic Paradigms and the Delimitation of Canon
Barbara A. Holdrege
35
3 The Veda and the Authority of Class Reduplicating Structures of Veda and Varna* in Ancient Indian Texts
Brian K. Smith
67
Part Two The Vedas in Classical Discourse
4 Puranaveda*
Frederick M. Smith
97
5 From Anxiety to Bliss Argument, Care, and Responsibility in the Vedanta* Reading of Taittiriya* 2.1-6a
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
139
Page vi
6 "Whither the Thick Sweetness of Their Passion?" The Search for Vedic Origins of Sanskrit Drama
David L. Gitomer
171
Part Three The Vedas in Modernity and Beyond
7 The Authority of an Absent Text The Veda, Upangas, Upavedas, and Upnekhata in European Thought
Dorothy M. Figueira
201
8 From Interpretation to Reform Dayanand's* Reading of the Vedas
John E. Llewellyn
235
9 Redefining the Authority of Scripture The Rejection of Vedic Infallibility by the Brahmo Samaj
Anantanand Rambachan
253
10 Poets and Fishes Modern Indian Interpretations of the Vedic Rishi
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