Summaries of Papers Submitted to the 15th Session of the All-India Oriental Conference in Bombay

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Summaries of Papers Submitted to the 15th Session of the All-India Oriental Conference in Bombay

1949

In the present one I have discussed three more Indra-legends from the first two Undo of the Sata.patha Brilunana and tried to show what light do they throw on the character of the Indra of the Brahmans. The first of these legends (SBR I-vi-4) refers to the great adventure of India against V.ru.a and speaks of the fright of the former. [...] The question of the real nature of the twin divinities of the kigveda the Aivinau has puzzled the brains of the students of Vedic: lore from the remotest times to the present clay. [...] The former definitely suggests that the upaslha or the birth-place of the universe lies in Shimha" or the Lion while the latter which relates to the so-called wedding of S aryi the Dawn-goddess states that gash or kinc are hatiyantt or slaughtered in the Aglaia and that the bridal procesion comes to an end and the bride goes into the house of the bridegroom in the 'Wuxi:. [...] The frequent association of the lion with the Sun-gods of the spring season like Indra Mithra and Marduk and Dawn-goddesses like Usas Sfiryä Isis and Ishtar in ancient mythologies and the exaltation of the lion symbol in the ancient religious architectures of oriental and occidental peoples go to support the view that the real reason fur such association and exaltation of the lion and its symb [...] The paper tries to show that the nature of the Vedic accent in general and of the udritta accent in the sense of high tone" was rightly intepreted by the Taittirlya Pritilikhya and the Sikoria confirmed as it is by the findings of modern comparative Philology.
Indology
Pages
232
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142436
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii Local Secretary view
Section I: Vedic
1-17 V.M. Apic view
Section II: Iranian
18-24 unknown view
Section III: Classical Sanskrit
25-70 unknown view
Section IV: Islamic Culture
71-72 unknown view
Section V: Arabic and Persian
73-77 unknown view
Section VI: Pali and Buddhism
78-80 P.V. Bapal view
Section VII: Prakrit and Jainism
81-86 unknown view
Section VIII: History
87-116 unknown view
Section IX: Archaeology
117-129 unknown view
Section X: Indian Linguistic
130-133 unknown view
Section XI: Dravidian Culture
134-134 unknown view
Section XII: Religion and Philosophy
135-153 unknown view
Section XIII: Technical Sciences and Fine Arts
154-163 unknown view
Section XIV: Gujarati
164-171 unknown view
Section XV: Hindu
172-173 unknown view
Section XVI: Kannada
174-179 unknown view
Section XVII: Marathi
180-229 unknown view
Section XVIII: Urdu
230-230 unknown view