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21 On the complexities of brahmanical Hindu epistemology, see Théorie de la Connais- sance et Philosophie de la Paroleby Madelei ...

logy. There are numerous weighty commentaries on the songs, and independent treatises explicating its meaning. Al ̄ akiya Man.av ...

Clooney, Francis X. 1989. “Evil, Divine Omnipotence and Human Freedom: Vedanta’s Theology of Karma,” Journal of Religion69: 530– ...

Sundaram, P. K. 1980. The Istasiddhi. Madras: Swadharma Swaarajya Sangha. Suresvara. 1982. Bhasyavartikam of Suresvara with the ...

CHAPTER 22 Mantra André Padoux Mantras are among the most characteristic features of Hinduism. They existed in Vedic times and a ...

centuries) said that mantras are mananatra ̄n.aru ̄pa, thought and salvation, that is, a liberating form of thought. We should p ...

ancient Vedic notions and rites, however, have survived as elements, sometimes very vital ones, of Pura ̄n.ic, then Tantric, and ...

notions and practices, can thus be traced back to Vedic times. The idea, too, that the whispered (upa ̄m.s ́u) or inaudible utte ...

brahmanic orthodoxy. These paura ̄n.ic mantras – “Vedic” in the sense that they were not Tantric – were used in the liturgy rath ...

another deity, and sometimes the wording (but not the meter^7 ) is modified so as to fit the deity invoked or the aim pursued. R ...

Tantric Mantras and the Mantras ́a ̄ stra However important the notion and uses of mantras may have been from early times, it wa ...

idea was also sometimes expressed in this connection that inarticulate sounds or ungrammatrical Sanskrit (or Pra ̄krit) forms, b ...

philosophical treatises), where mantras are considered as being, at least in essence, pure forms of the absolute power ofva ̄cor ...

icon, yantra, or whatever support they are to be worshipped on or made use of for some purpose. (This empowerment of the icon by ...

The secret character of mantras, together with the fact that they embody the highest and most efficacious power ofva ̄c, the spo ...

abhubuks.u, a seeker ofbhukti, and more specifically, if he receives the proper dı ̄ksa ̄, a sa ̄dhaka. The mantra he has receiv ...

which they pervade with their power. Thus divinized, the officiant must then perform on himself as a divine being an “inner” men ...

Arabic script. These are popular forms of mantra, but, like more sophisticated ones, they are signs of the Indian, nay universal ...

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PA R T I V Society, Politics, and Nation 23 On the Relationship between Caste and Hinduism 495 Declan Quigley 24 Modernity, Refo ...