Plant Myths And Traditions In India
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Plant Myths And Traditions In India
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Author : Shakti M. Gupta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Plant Myths And Traditions In India written by Shakti M. Gupta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Social Science categories.
Third revised and enlarged edition, incl. 28 b&w ills. - Trees and plants play an important part in the myths and customs of India. Many are considered holy, often for reasons that are lost in the mists of antiquity - they are associated with gods, planets, months, etc...
Sacred Plants Of India
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Author : Nanditha Krishna
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Sacred Plants Of India written by Nanditha Krishna and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Literary Collections categories.
Plants personify the divine— The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana’s prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India’s flora.
Plant Myths And Traditions In India
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Author : Shakti M. Gupta
language : en
Publisher: Brill Archive
Release Date : 1971
Plant Myths And Traditions In India written by Shakti M. Gupta and has been published by Brill Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Botany categories.
Plant Myths And Traditions In India
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Author : S M Gupta
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 1971-06
Plant Myths And Traditions In India written by S M Gupta and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971-06 with History categories.
Plant Lore Legends And Lyrics
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Author : Richard Folkard
language : en
Publisher: London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Release Date : 1884
Plant Lore Legends And Lyrics written by Richard Folkard and has been published by London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1884 with Botany categories.
Sacred Plants Of India
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Author : Krishna Nanditha
language : en
Publisher: Prhi
Release Date : 2014-05-15
Sacred Plants Of India written by Krishna Nanditha and has been published by Prhi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Plants personify the divine- The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana's prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India's flora.
Religious Useful Plants Of Nepal India
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Author : Trilok Chandra Majupuria
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Religious Useful Plants Of Nepal India written by Trilok Chandra Majupuria and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Ethnobotany categories.
Pluralism And Identity
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Author : Platvoet
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-08-14
Pluralism And Identity written by Platvoet and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-14 with Religion categories.
The subject of this book is ritual behaviour, in particular of groups with a distinctive religious, ethnic or other identity which use rituals to pursue strategic ends ad intra and ad extra. Five essays offer theoretical perspectives on ritual in plural and pluralist societies, on similarity and demarcation, on the negative case of the Australian Aboriginals, on Brazilian religious pluralism, and on Ghanaian churches in the Netherlands. Three essays describe the ritualization of the encounter, or confrontation, between religions in India (between Buddhists and Hindus, and between Hindus and Muslims), and in Yemen between Muslims and Jews. Four essays study the responses to internal religious plurality, in early Israel, on Java, in Indonesia, and in Spain and North Africa. One essay explores responses to external religious plurality. In the epilogue, the social nature of pluralism and identity is highlighted.
Plants Of Life Plants Of Death
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Author : Frederick J. Simoons
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1998
Plants Of Life Plants Of Death written by Frederick J. Simoons and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Health & Fitness categories.
This study examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity and life, and plants associated with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate and death. It provides detail from history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, folklore, ethnobotany and medicine.
People Trees
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Author : David L. Haberman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-13
People Trees written by David L. Haberman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-13 with Religion categories.
People Trees is about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshiped for millennia in India, and today tree worship continues there in abundance among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or primitive religion. More recently, this aspect of world religious cultures is almost completely ignored in the theoretical concerns of the day. Incorporating ethnographic fieldwork and texts never before translated into English, David Haberman reevaluates concepts such as animism, anthropomorphism, and personhood in the context of the worship of the pipal, a tree of mighty and ambiguous power; the neem, an embodied form of a goddess whose presence is enhanced with colorful ornamentation and a facemask appended to its trunk; and the banyan, a tree noted for its association with longevity and immortality. Along with detailed descriptions of a wide range of tree worship rituals, here is a spirited exploration of the practical consequences, perceptual possibilities, and implicit environmental ethics suggested by Indian notions about sacred trees.