Adhiyajña: Towards a Performance Grammar of the Vedas
Recent scholarship has challenged the anachronistic projection of the modern category of the poem onto premodern texts. This article attempts to theorize how one might construct an alternative to modern conceptualizations of "the poem" that more closely appropriates the conceptualization o...
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Religions
Year: 2019, Volume: 10, Issue: 6, Pages: 1-20 |
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B Rigveda B Narrative B speech act B Ritual B Poetry B Hermeneutics B Performance B Philology B Orality |
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