Memory, Desire, and “Magic”: Smará in the Atharvaveda
This essay analyzes the interconnection between memory, desire, and verbal performance in the three so called “women’s love spells” in Atharvaveda 6.130-132. This study unpacks the many interconnected meanings of the term smará, which is used repeatedly in these poems, “memory”, “desire”, or “effica...
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[2020]
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Religions
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Issue: 9 |
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Atharvaveda
B Memory B Magic B Religion B Hinduism B Vedas |
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