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Feeding the dead : ancestor worship in ancient India
- Title
- Feeding the dead : ancestor worship in ancient India / Matthew R. Sayers.
- Author
- Sayers, Matthew R.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 187 pages; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Ancestral rites in the early Vedas -- The solemn ancestral rites -- The domestic rice-ball sacrifice to the ancestors -- The Śrāddha-rite -- Ancestral rites in the Buddhist literature -- Soteriology -- Mediation -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-7564
- ISBN
- 9780199896431
- 0199896437
- 9780199917471
- 0199917477
- LCCN
- 2013012872
- OCLC
- 837146587
- Author
- Sayers, Matthew R.
- Title
- Feeding the dead : ancestor worship in ancient India / Matthew R. Sayers.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2013]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-7564