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Vedic Voices - Intimate Narratives of Living Andhra Traditions (Paperback)
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Vedic Voices - Intimate Narratives of Living Andhra Traditions (Paperback)
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For countless generations families have lived in isolated
communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh,
learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily
offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually
unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in
India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according
to Vedic tradition. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the
first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives,
ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children,
and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He
presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those
born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their
great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the
task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that
will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After
successful examinations these young men will reside with the Veda
family girls they married as children years before, take their
places in the oral transmission of a three-thousand-year Vedic
heritage, teach the Taittiriya collection of texts to their own
sons, and undertake with their wives the major and minor sacrifices
performed by their ancestors for some three millennia. Coastal
Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has
received scant attention from historians of religion and
anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. Vedic
Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural
history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the
region. Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their
wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside
world.
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