Rituals, mantras, and science: an integral perspective/ Jayant Burde
Material type: TextSeries: India's scientific heritage, 11Publication details: Delhi : motilal banarsidass publishers, 2004Description: xxi,262p. : ill. ; 25cmISBN: 8120820533Subject(s): Ritual | Hinduism -- Rituals | MantrasDDC classification: 294.5165Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 294.5165 BUR/R (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P13955 |
Part I
RELIGIOUS RITUALS
1. Vedic and Ancient India
1. Aryans in India
2. The Vedas
3. Religion and Dharma
4. Varna and Caste
5. The Stages of Life
6. Later Gods
7. The Schools of Philosophy
2. Rituals and Mantras
1. The Alphabet
2. Religious Rituals
3. Sixteen Sarnskaras
4. Sacrifice
5. Funeral Rites
6. MTmarnsa
7. Mantras
8. Types of Mantras
9. BTja Mantras
10. Om and Soham
3. Tantra and Yoga
1. Tantra
2. Anatomy and Physiology
3. Kaula Tantra "Samaya and MiSra Schools
4. KundalinT Dynamics
5. Yoga
6. Yantras
7. Yantras and Symmetry
8. Mudras
Part II
ANALYTICAL TOOLS
4. Knowledge
1. Analytic-Synthetic Dichotomy
2. Induction
3. Memory and Oral Tradition
4. The Postulates of Induction
5. Science
1. Knowledge and Science
2. Characteristics of Science
3. Hypothesis and Verification
6. Meaning and Interpretation
1. The Meaning of 'Meaning'
2. Truth
3. Interpretation
4. Hermeneutics
7. Structure
1. Introduction
2. Relations
3. Structural Similarity
4. Transmission of Structures
5. Symmetry
6. Recursion
7. Permutations and Combinations
8. Geometrical Transformations
8. Rituals in General
I. The Nature of Rituals
2. Transactional Analysis
3. Animal Rituals
4. Ritual Structures
5. Ritual and Abnormal Behaviour
6. Existentialism
Part III
RITUALS AND SCIENCE
9. Language
I. Semiotics
2. The Features of Language
3. Syntax and Semantics
4. Phylogenetic Changes
5. Verse
6. Sanskrit Verse
10. Music
I. Indian Music
2. Musical Structure
3. Percussion and Rhythm
11. The Structure of Religious Ritual
1. Rituals, Mantras and GRS
2. Yantras and Ritual
3. Awakening of Mantras
4. GayatrT Mantra
5. Puja
12. Major Religious Rituals
1. Worship Rituals and their Structure
2. Major Pujas
3. The Rites of Passage
13. Mantras and Language
1. Pre-linguistic Sounds
2. Bird Songs
3. Are' Mantras Language?
14. The Interpretation of Rituals
1. Meaning and Meaninglessness
2. Rituals and Culture
3. Rituals and Instinct
15. Science, Non-Science and Pseudo-science
1. Falsificationism
2. Mantra astra
3. Supernatural Powers
4. Pseudo-science
5. Vedic Mathematics
6. Siddhis and Science
16. The Science of Ritual
1. Indian Science of Ritual 2. The General Theory of Rituals
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