Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas

Specification Product Code :BK7083 Size :5.8" x 1" x 8.5" Weight :560 gm. Author :Uma Marina Vesci ISBN :812080841X, ISBN-13: 978-8120808416 Publisher :Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd. Edition :1992 Cover :Hard Cover Language :English Pages :339 Description About the Book In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary. The reasons for such a treatment forms the subject matter of this book. The author, through an exhaustive examination of Vedic, Brahmanic and Srauta Sutric texts, traces the beginning and development of the idea of cooking as transforming energy, from early Vedic hymns to the classical and fully complete sacrifices of the later Brahmanic times. The work is divided into two major parts: The first, comprising four chapters, follows the emergence and development of the