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000771798 1001_ $$aKnipe, David M.$$q(David Mahan),$$d1950-$$eauthor.
000771798 24510 $$aVedic voices :$$bintimate narratives of a living Andhra tradition /$$cDavid M. Knipe.
000771798 264_1 $$aOxford ;$$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c[2015]
000771798 300__ $$axx, 340 pages :$$billustrations, maps ;$$c24 cm
000771798 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent
000771798 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
000771798 338__ $$avolume$$bnc$$2rdacarrier
000771798 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 295-321) and index.
000771798 5050_ $$a1) The Godavari Delta -- 2) Vedamlo, "Living in the Veda" -- 3) A Selection of Ahitagnis and Other Veda Pandits in Agrahara, villages, and towns -- 4) Becoming a Veda -- 5) Becoming a Householder -- 6) Becoming Agni -- Epilogue: Becoming "Modern."
000771798 520__ $$a"For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children, and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After successful examinations these young men will reside with the Veda family girls they married as children years before, take their places in the oral transmission of a three-thousand-year Vedic heritage, teach the Taittiriya collection of texts to their own sons, and undertake with their wives the major and minor sacrifices performed by their ancestors for some three millennia. Coastal Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has received scant attention from historians of religion and anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. Vedic Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the region. Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside world"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000771798 520__ $$a"Four generations of ten families speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, choices as pandits, wives, and children, ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000771798 650_0 $$aHindu civilization.
000771798 650_0 $$aBrahmans$$zIndia$$zGodāvari River Delta.
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