Vedic voices: intimate narratives of living Andhra traditions
Four generations of ten families in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra speak about their lives; ancestral lineages; decisions as Yajur Veda pandits, wives, and children; and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old o...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2015
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Andhra Pradesh
/ Vedism
/ Yajña
B Godavaridelta / Vedism / Yajña |
| Further subjects: | B
Hindu civilization
History
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| Summary: | Four generations of ten families in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra speak about their lives; ancestral lineages; decisions as Yajur Veda pandits, wives, and children; and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old oral tradition, the last in India who simultaneously recite and teach their Taittiriya texts and perform according to Vedic tradition the ancient animal and soma sacrifices, sometimes with sixteen priests for forty consecutive days. |
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| ISBN: | 0199397716 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199397686.001.0001 |