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" Mantra / "
Harvey P. Alper, editor.
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BL
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674192
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b503381
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Mantra /\ Harvey P. Alper, editor.
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| Publication Statement
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Albany, N.Y. :: State University of New York Press,, c1989.
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SUNY series in religious studies.
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v, 343 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0887065996
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: 9780887065996
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Bibliography: p. 327-343.
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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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Mantras.
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294.5/37
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BL1236.36.M36 1989
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Alper, Harvey P.,1945-
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