Hindu Mythology and The Critique of Sacrifice: The Head Beneath the Altar

Hindu Mythology and The Critique of Sacrifice: The Head Beneath the AltarIn the beginning,says the ancient Hindu text the Rig Veda, was man. And from man's sacrifice and dismemberment came the entire world, including the hierarchical ordering of human society. The book presents a wide ranging study of Hindu texts read through the lens of Rene Girard's mimetic theory of the sacrificial origin of religion and culture. For those interested in Girard and comparative religion, the book also performs a careful reading of

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This book is the result of literal archeological

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(2) To understand the yogic concepts

This book in no way meets the task of making Indic values and practices the lynchpin of the world

there is nothing out of context and out of the purview of Vedic astrology principles and fundamentals

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Bhaskaracarya himself never gave any derivations of his formulae

"Passions and emotions in the Indian philosophical-religions"

In the context of early Vedic thought

He worked as Associate Professor of Research Methodology at TISS