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04237aam a2200481 i 4500 001 D8CBAB4EECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160318010059 008 150309s2015 enkab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2014031556 020 $a 0199397694 (paperback) 020 $a 9780199397693 (paperback) 020 $a 0199397686 (hardback) 020 $a 9780199397686 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)893455452 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d CDX $d OCLCF $d EYM $d NLGGC $d OCLCO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-ii--- 050 00 $a BL1153.7.G65 $b K65 2015 082 00 $a 294.50954/85 $2 23 084 $a HIS017000 $a REL032000 $a HIS017000 $2 bisacsh 084 $a 18.64 $2 bcl 100 1 $a Knipe, David M., $e author. 245 10 $a Vedic voices : $b intimate narratives of a living Andhra tradition / $c David M. Knipe. 264 1 $a Oxford ; $b Oxford University Press, $c [2015] 300 $a xxi, 340 pages : $b illustrations (some color), maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 295-321) and index. 520 $a "For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children, and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After successful examinations these young men will reside with the Veda family girls they married as children years before, take their places in the oral transmission of a three-thousand-year Vedic heritage, teach the Taittiriya collection of texts to their own sons, and undertake with their wives the major and minor sacrifices performed by their ancestors for some three millennia. Coastal Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has received scant attention from historians of religion and anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. Vedic Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the region. Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside world"-- $c Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Four generations of ten families speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, choices as pandits, wives, and children, ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. They are virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition"-- $c Provided by publisher. 505 0 $a 1) The Godavari Delta -- 2) Vedamlo, "Living in the Veda" -- 3) A Selection of Ahitagnis and Other Veda Pandits -- 4) Becoming a Veda -- 5) Becoming a Householder -- 6) Becoming Agni -- Epilogue: Becoming "Modern." 650 0 $a Hindu civilization. 650 0 $a Brahmans $z GodaÌvari River Delta. $z GodaÌvari River Delta. 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a RELIGION / Hinduism / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Brahmans. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00837534 650 7 $a Hindu civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01729900 651 7 $a India $z GodaÌvari River Delta. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01272885 651 7 $a India. $2 gtt $0 (NL-LeOCL)078543428 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191217030404.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826041512.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D8CBAB4EECCE11E5A64DF5B3DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search