Rites of the God-King: Santi and Ritual Change in Early Hinduism

ISBN-13: 9780190862886 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Marko Geslani

Opis

Rites of the God-King offers a critical revision of mainstream Hinduism from the perspective of the life of a single ritual from medieval India. Drawing theoretical connections to modern ethnographies, it raises questions about the nature of kingship and priesthood, image-worship, and ritual change.

Recenzje

Geslani's close examination of the rites of appeasement in the ritual manuals of the Atharvaveda and the early Astral literature of Varahamihira's Bṛhatsaṃhitā has demonstrated a clear link between the domestic priest (purohita) and the astrologer (sāṃvatsara) in ancient India, resulting in a new way to understand the role of the royal priesthood in kingship rituals.

O autorze

Marko Geslani is Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Premodern South Asian Religions at Emory University.