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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461186003321

Autore

Olivelle Patrick

Titolo

Ascetics and Brahmins : studies in ideologies and institutions / / Patrick Olivelle [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011

ISBN

1-280-49092-6

9786613586155

1-84331-802-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cultural, historical and textual studies of religions

Disciplina

294.5447

Soggetti

Asceticism - Hinduism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction to renunciation in the Hindu traditions -- The Ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity -- Village vs. wilderness: Ascetic ideals and the Hindu world -- A definition of world renunciation -- From feast to fast: food and the Indian Ascetic -- The beast and the Ascetic: the wild in the Indian religious imagination -- Deconstruction of the body in Indian Asceticism -- Contributions to the semantic history of saṃnyāsa -- The semantic history of āśrama -- Renunciation in the Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads -- Odes of renunciation -- Ritual suicide and the rite of renunciation -- The renouncer's staff: triviṣṭabdha, tridaṇḍa, and ekadaṇḍa -- Pañcamāśramavidhi: rite for becoming a naked Ascetic -- Ānandatīrtha's Saṃnyāsapaddhati: a handbook for Madhvaite Ascetics -- Renouncer and renunciation in the Dharmaśāstras -- King and Ascetic: state control of Asceticism in the Arthaśāstra.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.