The Hindu rite of entry into heaven
and other essays on death and ancestors in Hinduism
First edition.
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Author
Publication
2019 - Motilal Banarasidass Publishers Private Limited, Delhi, India, India
Language
English
Word Count
81,250 words, Guess
Page Count
325 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-108120842448
- ISBN-139788120842441
- Library of Congress Control Number2019328569
- OCLC Control Number1089010966
- Open LibraryOL44060968M
Classifications
- DDC294.5388
- LCCBL1226.82.F86 K55 2019
Description
"This book comprises a smorgasbord of essays on death, dying, funeral rituals, ancestor ceremonies, ghosts, and other subjects in the realm of Mrityu, the god of Death, and aparam, the Sanskrit and Telugu word for human End Time. The focus stretches from the Ṛg Veda to present-day Hinduism, textual and non-textual. The title of the book is that of the first essay, an ethnographic and Vedic/Classical Sanskrit textual study of the sapiṇḍa ritual that occurs on the twelfth day of a full-scale, textually accurate funeral. That field work was accomplished during a year-long study of funeral rituals in Varanasi, the ancient city of Kāśī where it is most auspicious for Hindus to die and be cremated in a final sacrifice of the body."--Back cover.
Series Statement
- Hindu tradition series -- number 8
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