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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its 438 essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that has ancient historical roots with many flourishing traditions today. Including all essays from the heralded printed edition, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is now to be regularly updated with new articles and available in a fully searchable, dynamic digital format.
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Edited by: Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors)
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Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism presents the latest research on all the main aspects of the Hindu traditions. Its 438 essays are original work written by the world’s foremost scholars on Hinduism. The encyclopedia presents a balanced and even-handed view of Hinduism, recognizing the divergent perspectives and methods in the academic study of a religion that has ancient historical roots with many flourishing traditions today. Including all essays from the heralded printed edition, Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism is now to be regularly updated with new articles and available in a fully searchable, dynamic digital format.
Subscriptions: see brill.com
Ṛṣis
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Ṛṣis, the Poets of the Ṛgveda The
ṛṣis are the poets of the hymns of the
Ṛgveda (see Vedas). Their poems follow the inherited patterns of Indo-Iranian, and sometimes even Indo-European, poetics, which, however, must be deduced from the vedic texts themselves. To some extent, the
ṛṣis have described their composition technique in the very hymns they composed: they strove to compose ever new hymns to the deities (see vedic gods) and also in praise of their sponsors, local noblemen and chieftains, by whom they expected to be rewarded w…
Date:
2020-05-18
Rūpa Gosvāmī
(6,183 words)
Rūpa Gosvāmī was one of the principal disciples of Kṛṣṇa Caitanya and an important 16th-century theologian of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava school; he developed an elaborate
avatāra theology as well as a sophisticated theology of religious emotion. Born in Bengal, he spent most of his life in Vraja (now Braj), where he was instrumental in the (re)development of the area as a place of pilgrimage. He wrote works of Sanskrit poetry, theology, literary theory, and ritual practice that shaped the thought of the school.The Life of Rūpa GosvāmīRūpa Gosvāmī was born in Fateyabad (eastern Bengal) …
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2020-05-18
Russia
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Indian Hindus constitute a small proportion of the population of present-day Russia, but they can claim a history of at least four centuries of South Asian presence in the country. The invasion in the 16th century of the Astrakhan Khanate by Moscow tsar Ivan the Terrible resulted in the incorporation of an existing trading colony of Indians in Astrakhan, formerly Haji Tarkhan, into the Russian state. An Indian trading court (Gostiniy Dvor) for Indian merchants had been erected in Astrakhan in 1624 (Goldberg
et al., 1958, 11). More than one hundred Indian merchants lived there w…
Date:
2020-05-18