Miarą ofiary jest człowiek: Antropometria w wedyjskim rytuale ofiarniczym śrauta = Man is Commensurate with the Sacrifice : Anthropometry in the Vedic Śrauta Sacrificial Ritual

The institutionalisation of the Vedic śrauta fire ritual in ancient India was strictly connected with the priest class’s establishment of a systematic theory of ritual. However, the pivot of ritualists’ reflections turned out to be not the gods receiving the fire oblations but the human being. As Ta...

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Autres titres:Man is Commensurate with the Sacrifice
Auteur principal: Nowicka, Olga (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Polonais
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Publié: Wydawn. Uniw. Jagiellońskiego 2015
Dans: Studia religiologica
Année: 2015, Volume: 48, Numéro: 1, Pages: 35-47
Sujets non-standardisés:B literatura wedyjska
B rytuał ofiarniczy
B antropometria
B epoka wedyjska
B rytuał typu śrauta
B geometria sakralna
B rytuał wedyjski
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Résumé:The institutionalisation of the Vedic śrauta fire ritual in ancient India was strictly connected with the priest class’s establishment of a systematic theory of ritual. However, the pivot of ritualists’ reflections turned out to be not the gods receiving the fire oblations but the human being. As Taittirīya Saṃhitā states: man is commensurate with the sacrifice (TS.5.2.5). The first activity just after fixing the proper area for conducting the Vedic ritual was taking the sacrificer’s measurements. Then, using the units of measure modelled on the dimensions of man, the ritual enclosure was meted out and built. The origin of the mentioned procedure of taking human dimensions as units of measure can be traced to the Vedic passage of Taittirīya Saṃhitā: with man’s measure he metes out(TS.5.2.5). The constructed ritual enclosure therefore belonged to the sacrificer in a strict sense - it was his altar.
ISSN:2084-4077
Contient:Enthalten in: Studia religiologica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.4467/20844077SR.15.003.3132