Understanding mantras/
Harvey P Alper
- Delhi: MBP, 1991.
- 540 p.
1 Mantra kaviiastd: Speech as Performative in the Rgveda Ellison Banks Findly 2 Vedic Mantras Frits Staal 3 The Mantra in Vedic and Tantric Ritual Wade T. Wheelock 4 Mantra in Ayurveda: A Study of the Use of Magico-Religious Speech in Ancient Indian Medicine Kenneth G. Zysk 5 Are Mantras Speech Acts? The Mimamsa Point of View John Taber 6 The Meaning and Power of Mantras in Bhartrhari's Vdkyapadiya Harold Coward 7 Mantras in the Sivapurdna Ludo Rocher 8 The Use of Mantra in Yogic Meditation: The Testimony of the Pdsupata Gerhard Oberhammer 9 The Pahcaratra Attitude to Mantra Sanjukta Gupta 10 The Cosmos as Siva's Language-Game: "Mantra" According to K$emaraja's Sivasutravimarsini Harvey P. Alper