Vol. 26 No. 1 (2024): Shades of Violence: Aggression and Domination in Indian Culture. Part I. Vedic Studies

Edited by Hermina Cielas Leão and Tiziana Pontillo

Published: 2024-06-07

Front Matter

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Articles

• Shades of Violence Aggression and Domination in Indian Culture

  Hermina Cielas Leão, Tiziana Pontillo, Lidia Sudyka

  V-XVII

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• Ritual: Violence and Non-violence

  Ganesh U. Thite

  1-11

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• Agonistic Scenes of the mahāvrata Rite The Praiser-abhigara and the Reviler-apagara

  Paola M. Rossi

  13-60

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• Competitiveness in Sacred Learning Traces of Indo-Aryan Oral Competition in the Mahābhārata

  Diletta Falqui

  61-80

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• Vrātya or Ancient Indo-Aryan Violence? Challenge and Defeat within the Patterns of Vedic and Buddhist Dialogues

  Chiara Neri, Tiziana Pontillo

  81-116

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• Some Observations about Warrior-gods and Distinctive Weapons in the Imagery of vrātyas

  Anita M. Borghero

  117-140

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• Vrātya and vrātīna in Sanskrit Grammatical Sources

  Valentina Ferrero

  141-161

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• Violence in Service of Religion in the Pre-classical Sanskrit Texts

  Edeltraud Harzer

  163-171

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• Cannibalism in the dīkṣā Chapter of the Maitrāyaṇī Saṁhitā

  Kyoko Amano

  173-190

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• Cursing the daēvas as an Example of Verbal Aggression in the Zoroastrian “Declaration of Faith”? A Preliminary Study

  Kinga Paraskiewicz

  191-204

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Reviews

• Henk Bodewitz, Vedic Cosmology and Ethics: Selected Studies (Gonda Indological Studies, Vol. 19). Ed. Henk Bodewitz, Dory H. Heilijgers, Jan E. M. Houben and Karel van Kooij. pp. 480. Boston: Brill 2019.—Reviewed by Mattia Capotosto and Alessia Manca (University of Cagliari, Italy)

  Mattia Capotosto, Alessia Manca

  207-211

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