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The Maha-vrata Great Vow and Go-sava Bull ImitationĦ.13. Variations of Agni-cayana, Building a Fire AltarĦ.12.

The Soma-sacrifice Schedule and Other RitualsĦ.10. The First Soma and Animal Sacrifice, Agni-stomaĦ.9.

#Veda classes in pithapuram full#

Offerings to the New Moon, Full Moon, and ConstellationsĦ.7. The Agni-hotra, Sunset and Sunrise Milk OfferingsĦ.4. The Adhana, Setting the Fires for Srauta Agni-hotraĦ.3. Old Age, Retirement, and Thoughts on RenunciationĦ.2. The Sabha: Debating in an Assembly of Veda Panditsĥ.5. Kamesvari Agrahara Near Nedunuru Village â A Selection of Ahitagni and Other Veda Pandits in Agrahara,ģ.2. The Voices of Ahitagni and Other Veda pandits â Agrahara, Villages, and Pilgrimage Towns â Kapilavayi Venkatesvara and Sita Rama Laksmi garuĪnd M. Sarvatomukha Somayaji] and Anasuya Somidevamma You must not circulate this work in any other formĪnd you must impose this same condition on any acquirer.Ĭataloging-in-Publication data is on file at the Library of Congress Rights Department, Oxford University Press, at the address above. Inquiries concerning reproduction outside the scope of the above should be sent to the Permission in writing of Oxford University Press, or as expressly permitted by law,īy license, or under terms agreed with the appropriate reproduction rights organization. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored inĪ retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior Published in the United States of America byĪll rights reserved. Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press South Korea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam

Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City NairobiĪrgentina Austria Brazil Chile Czech Republic France Greece Scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.Īuckland Cape Town Dar es Salaam Hong Kong Karachi It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside world. Vedic Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the region. 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.Ĭoastal Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has received scant attention from historians of religion and anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. 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. 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. 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. 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.