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- Title: Poetics and Pragmatics in the Vedic Liturgy for the Installation of the Sacrificial Post.
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 301 KB
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INTRODUCTION Research over the course of the past two centuries has established that between the composition of the great majority of material in the Rgveda and the composition of the earliest of the later Vedic texts, there was a chronological interval of some duration. The recitation of RV verse is, however, a crucial element in most of the srauta rites characteristic of the classical Vedic period, insofar as the srauta rites incorporate a large amount of Rgvedic material within their liturgies. For this reason, scholars have debated the degree of continuity between the liturgical function these hymns served within the rites for which they were composed in the Rgvedic period and their application in the rites of the later age. Were the verses composed for the same liturgical context which they serve according to the ritual manuals of the post-Rgvedic rites, or were they adapted secondarily to a new ritual environment?