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Soul and Self in Vedic India
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Date of Publication: 26 June 2023
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1 ?Souls? in Vedic Indian Beliefs
2 The Purpose of the Study
3 The Concept of ?Soul? in the Study of Religion
4 Towards a Working Definition of ?Soul?
2 Approaching the Sources
1 The Material
2 Previous Research on Vedic Soul
-Conceptions
3 Notes on Methodology
4 Structure of the Study
3 Afterlife, Person, and Soul in Pre
-Upani?adic Vedic Thought
1 The Vedic Concept of the Person
2 The Earliest Conceptions of the Afterlife
3 Later Vedic Views of the Afterlife
4 Conclusions
4 The Rise of New Doctrines on the Soul and Afterlife: A Late Vedic Conundrum
1 The Decline of Ritualism: Theories on the Transformation of Late Vedic Ideology
2 Conclusions
Part 2: Vedic Soul
5 The asu
1 Meanings of the Term
2 asu in the R?gveda
3 asu in the Atharvaveda
4 asu in the Yajurvedic Sa?hit?s
5 asu in the Br?hma?as
6 asu in the Upani?ads
7 Conclusions
8 Excursus: A Note on asu in Epic Sanskrit
6 manas, the Mind
1 manas in the R?gveda
2 manas in the Atharvaveda
3 The Relation of manas to asu
4 manas in Middle Vedic Thought
5 Late Vedic: Mind as the Central Vital Faculty
6 manas in the Upani?ads
7 Conclusions
7 pr??a, the Breath
1 Etymology and Meaning of pr??a
2 On pr??a and the pr??as
3 pr??a in the R?gveda
4 pr??a in the Atharvaveda
5 pr??a and the pr??as in Later Vedic Literature
6 The pr??a?s Rise to Greatness in Late Vedic Texts
7 The Supreme Cosmic and Psychic Force
8 The Fate of the Upani?adic pr??a Concept
9 Conclusions
8 The puru?a
1 Uses of the Word in Early Vedic
2 puru?a in Br?hma?as and ?ra?yakas
3 Excursus: Some Possible Sources of the Homunculus Conception
4 puru?a in the Upani?ads
5 Conclusions
9 The ?tman
1 Etymology and Original Sense of the Word
2 ?tman in the R?gveda
3 ?tman in the Atharvaveda
4 ?tman in Middle Vedic Texts
5 ?tman in Late Br?hma?as and in the ?ra?yakas
6 ?tman in the Upani?ads
7 Conclusions
PART 3: The Transformation of Vedic Soul
10 Self and Sacrifice: Ritual Interiorization and the Rise of Soul
-Doctrines
1 The Interiorization of Ritual and the Emergence of the ?Self?
2 Theories on the Causes of Interiorization
3 Interiorization and the Soul
4 Political Symbolism in the Imagery of the Soul
5 Conclusions
11 Soul and Selfhood: Changing Late Vedic Conceptions of the Person
1 Theories on the Unification of the Soul in India and Elsewhere
2 The Unitary Soul in Late Vedic Texts
3 The Question of Spirit
-Matter Dualism
4 A Changing Society?
5 The Problem of Individualism in Ancient India
6 Conclusions
12 States of the Soul: Dreaming, Unconsciousness, and Ecstasy in Vedic Thought
1 Free
-souls in Vedic India
2 Soul and Dreaming: Vedic Theories on the Nature of Dreams
3 Soul
-travel in Vedic Texts
4 Mysticism and the Soul: The Case of the Upani?ads
5 Conclusions
13 Soul in Non
-Brahmanical Traditions
1 Bronkhorst?s Theory: The Inactive Self
2 More on ?tman and Renunciation
3 Was There a Śrama?ic Concept of the Soul?
4 Conclusions
5 Excursus: Some Remarks on the Self in Early Buddhism and in the Upani?ads
14 The Doctrine of Rebirth
1 The Early Vedic Evidence
2 Rebirth Understood in the Ancestral Rites?
3 The Recurring Death
4 Karma
5 The Earliest Theories of Rebirth
6 Conclusions
15 Souls and Self in Vedic Thought
Appendix 1: Indo
-Iranian and Indo
-European Soul
-Concepts
Appendix 2: Shadow and Reflection
Appendix 3: The Soul or the Dead as Birds
Appendix 4: Soul and Fire
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
1 Introduction
1 ?Souls? in Vedic Indian Beliefs
2 The Purpose of the Study
3 The Concept of ?Soul? in the Study of Religion
4 Towards a Working Definition of ?Soul?
2 Approaching the Sources
1 The Material
2 Previous Research on Vedic Soul
-Conceptions
3 Notes on Methodology
4 Structure of the Study
Part 1: General Background
3 Afterlife, Person, and Soul in Pre
-Upani?adic Vedic Thought
1 The Vedic Concept of the Person
2 The Earliest Conceptions of the Afterlife
3 Later Vedic Views of the Afterlife
4 Conclusions
4 The Rise of New Doctrines on the Soul and Afterlife: A Late Vedic Conundrum
1 The Decline of Ritualism: Theories on the Transformation of Late Vedic Ideology
2 Conclusions
Part 2: Vedic Soul
-Concepts
5 The asu
1 Meanings of the Term
2 asu in the R?gveda
3 asu in the Atharvaveda
4 asu in the Yajurvedic Sa?hit?s
5 asu in the Br?hma?as
6 asu in the Upani?ads
7 Conclusions
8 Excursus: A Note on asu in Epic Sanskrit
6 manas, the Mind
1 manas in the R?gveda
2 manas in the Atharvaveda
3 The Relation of manas to asu
4 manas in Middle Vedic Thought
5 Late Vedic: Mind as the Central Vital Faculty
6 manas in the Upani?ads
7 Conclusions
7 pr??a, the Breath
1 Etymology and Meaning of pr??a
2 On pr??a and the pr??as
3 pr??a in the R?gveda
4 pr??a in the Atharvaveda
5 pr??a and the pr??as in Later Vedic Literature
6 The pr??a?s Rise to Greatness in Late Vedic Texts
7 The Supreme Cosmic and Psychic Force
8 The Fate of the Upani?adic pr??a Concept
9 Conclusions
8 The puru?a
1 Uses of the Word in Early Vedic
2 puru?a in Br?hma?as and ?ra?yakas
3 Excursus: Some Possible Sources of the Homunculus Conception
4 puru?a in the Upani?ads
5 Conclusions
9 The ?tman
1 Etymology and Original Sense of the Word
2 ?tman in the R?gveda
3 ?tman in the Atharvaveda
4 ?tman in Middle Vedic Texts
5 ?tman in Late Br?hma?as and in the ?ra?yakas
6 ?tman in the Upani?ads
7 Conclusions
PART 3: The Transformation of Vedic Soul
-Beliefs
10 Self and Sacrifice: Ritual Interiorization and the Rise of Soul
-Doctrines
1 The Interiorization of Ritual and the Emergence of the ?Self?
2 Theories on the Causes of Interiorization
3 Interiorization and the Soul
4 Political Symbolism in the Imagery of the Soul
5 Conclusions
11 Soul and Selfhood: Changing Late Vedic Conceptions of the Person
1 Theories on the Unification of the Soul in India and Elsewhere
2 The Unitary Soul in Late Vedic Texts
3 The Question of Spirit
-Matter Dualism
4 A Changing Society?
5 The Problem of Individualism in Ancient India
6 Conclusions
12 States of the Soul: Dreaming, Unconsciousness, and Ecstasy in Vedic Thought
1 Free
-souls in Vedic India
2 Soul and Dreaming: Vedic Theories on the Nature of Dreams
3 Soul
-travel in Vedic Texts
4 Mysticism and the Soul: The Case of the Upani?ads
5 Conclusions
13 Soul in Non
-Brahmanical Traditions
1 Bronkhorst?s Theory: The Inactive Self
2 More on ?tman and Renunciation
3 Was There a Śrama?ic Concept of the Soul?
4 Conclusions
5 Excursus: Some Remarks on the Self in Early Buddhism and in the Upani?ads
14 The Doctrine of Rebirth
1 The Early Vedic Evidence
2 Rebirth Understood in the Ancestral Rites?
3 The Recurring Death
4 Karma
5 The Earliest Theories of Rebirth
6 Conclusions
Part 4: Conclusions
15 Souls and Self in Vedic Thought
Appendix 1: Indo
-Iranian and Indo
-European Soul
-Concepts
Appendix 2: Shadow and Reflection
Appendix 3: The Soul or the Dead as Birds
Appendix 4: Soul and Fire
Bibliography
Index