Anu-Gita in the Mahabharata New Age Books Thirty-three years later

Thirty-three years later

I gratefully acknowledge my indebtedness to my beloved parents

Staal's 'meaninglessness of ritual' and the nihnavana rite * the vaidika tradition of the Vaikhanasas * gender identity in Rgvedic hymns by female authors * traditional philology and new paradigms for studying of the past * making sense of 'senseless' Brahmana etymologies * the initiation to study (upanayana and punarupanayana) * audio recordings of the four Vedas * the wife (patni) in the Andhra tradition of Soma sacrifices * a forthcoming new edition of the Baudhayanagrhyasutra * the meaning of the priestly reward (daksina) in srauta sacrifices * ephemera of recently performed srauta rituals The Closing Address of the 12th World Sanskrit Conference is published as an appendix to the volume

Kevalanvayyanumanam

Anu-Gita in the Mahabharata New Age Books Thirty-three years laterThe purpose of writing this book is to make available to English knowing readers, an easy to read version of Anu Gita. Although Anu Gita is an important part of the Maha bharata, it has so far not been presented in a simple form to common people, with the result that most people do not even know that such a book exists. The prefix 'Anu' denotes 'after', so Anu Gita literally means 'Gita occurring after'. In the Mahabharata, Bhagavat Gita occurs in