Papers of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Vol. 1: Vedic Investigations
Contents: 1. The Tradition of the Atharvaveda in Varanasi/S.S. Bahulkar. 2. Some Forgotten Scholars in Pratisakhyas and Siksas/Didhiti Biswas. 3. Reconstructing Rgvedic Religion: Devas, Asuras and Rites of Kingship/Joel Brereton. 4. Interiorisation of Ritual in the Brahmanas: Role of the Breaths in the Vedic System of Ritual Correspondences/Clemens Cavallin. 5. On the Meaning of Words Signifying 'Body' in the Rgveda/T.Ta. Elizarenkova. 6. Apam Napat, Dirghatamas and Construction of the Brick Altar: Analysis of RV 1.143/Laszlo Forizs. 7. Manuscripts of the Jaiminiya Samaveda Traced and Photographed in 2002-2006/Masato Fujii and Asko Parpola. 8. The Khilas and Upakhilas of the Rgveda according to the Yamalastakatantre Khila-Upanisad/Gezary Galewicz. 9. Organizational Levels in Vedic Ritual: The Problem of the Meaning of the Nihnavana Rite/Jan E. M. Houben. 10. Ritual Txts and Performances: Reinvention of a vaidika Tradition/Ute Husken. 11. The Hymns of Apala and Ghosa: Production of Gender Self-identity/Gabriela Nik. Ilieva. 12. Of Animals and (Wo)men: Traditional Philology and New Paradigms for Studying the Past/Stephanie W. Jamison. 13. Etymologies in the Brahmanas and the Rgveda: A Case Study of 'Fire's Precedence'/Joanna Jurewicz. 14. The Upanayana and the 'Repeated Upanayana(s)'/Mieko Kajihara. 15. Recording the Four Vedas/Guni Hesting Kirchheiner.16. Somidevamma: The Patni Who Consumes Soma in the Andhra Srauta Tradition/David M. Knipe.17. Towards a New Edition of the Baudhayanafrhyasutra/Timothy Lubin. 18. Daksina in Vedic Sacrifices/Manjula Devi. 19. Why Perform Vedic Sacrifice in the 21st Century? Notes on Recent Vedic Ephemera/Frederick M. Smith.
