Understanding mantras /

Other Authors: Alper, Harvey P.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1989.
Series:SUNY series in religious studies
Subjects:
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=7441
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 444-530). 
505 0 |a Introduction / Harvey P. Alper -- Mántra kaviśatá: speech as performative in the Ṛgveda / Ellison Banks Findly -- Vedic Mantras / Frits Staal -- The Mantra in Vedic and Tantric ritual / Wade T. Wheelock -- Mantra in Āyurveda: a study of the use of magico-religious speech in ancient Indian medicine / Kenneth G. Zysk -- Are Mantras speech acts? The Mīmāṃsā point of view / John Taber -- The meaning and power of Mantras in Bhartṛhari's Vākyapadīya / Harold Coward -- Mantras in the Śivapurāṇa / Ludo Rocher -- The use of Mantra in yogic meditation: the testimony of the Pāśupata / Gerhard Oberhammer -- The Pāñcarātra attitude to Mantra / Sanjukta Gupta -- The cosmos as Śiva's language-game: "Mantra" according to Kṣemarāja's Śivasūtravimarśinī / Harvey P. Alper -- Conclusion: Mantras--what are they? / André Padoux. 
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