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100			_aBurde, Jayant _926222
245		0	_aRituals, mantras, and science: an integral perspective/ _cJayant Burde
260			_aDelhi : _bmotilal banarsidass publishers, _c2004.
300			_axxi,262p. : _bill. ; _c25cm.
440			_a India's scientific heritage, 11. _926223
505			_aPart 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
650			_a Ritual. _926224
650			_a Hinduism -- Rituals. _926225
650			_aMantras. _926226
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