Isbn: 9788130717531 - “gods” and “power” in the veda. some observations on the relations between them (2 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. "Vedic scholars . will find this concise but rather discursive study of much interest; but it is of greater importance to the historians of Indian thought and to the anthropologist. Copious illustrations of the early Aryans' expressions of their belief in 'power-substantives' will be certain to stimulate responses in both spheres. We are taken on a tour of the power-substances, and incidentally given helpful information . and other key expressions of Vedic sociological as well as religious vocabulary. The essay contains shrewd remarks on primitive but constant Indian ideas . and is adorned with comparisons with Semitic and other foreign usages." Extracted from the Book Review by J.D.M.D., published in the Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies.…