Collected essays

v.

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction to Renunciation in the Hindu Traditions
  • 2. Ascetics and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity
  • 3. Village vs. Wilderness
  • 4. A Definition of World Renunciation
  • 5. From Feast to Fast Food and the Indian Ascetic
  • 6. The Beast and the Ascetic
  • 7. Decostruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism
  • 8. Contributions to the Semantic History of Samnyasa
  • 9. The Semantic History of asrama
  • 10. Renunciation in the Samnyasa Upanisads
  • 11. Odes of Renunciation
  • 12. Ritual Suicide and the Rite of Renunciation
  • 13. The Renouncer's Staff Trivistabdha, tridanda, and ekadanda
  • 14. Pañcamasramavidhi Rite for Becoming a Naked Ascetic
  • 15. Anandatirtha's Samnyasapaddhati
  • 16. Renouncer and Renunciation in the Dharmasastras
  • 17. King and Ascetic
  • Bibliography
  • Index
• Information

  ISBN: 9788884537324

  Permalink: http://digital.casalini.it/9788884537324

  SERIES

  Biblioteca scientifica universale ; 3
  

  DISCIPLINES

  • Religions of Indic origin
  • East Indo-European and Celtic
  • East Indo-European and Celtic languages
  • Culture and institutions
  • Religions (General)

  SUBJECTS HEADINGS

  • Hinduism
  • Sanskrit language
  • India -- Civilization