Exchange, gifting, and sacrificing
Premodern Indian perspectives
Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)
In both the Vedic and the classical periods, a special elite class of people existed that were called Brahmins. In a rough
manner, one might say that their material welbeing depended on dakṣiṇā in the Vedic period and on dāna in the classical one. Broadening the perspective beyond dakṣiṇā and dāna, this book is on all sorts of giving in the context of pre-modern
India, using Vedic, Sanskrit, Buddhist and, to a much lesser extent, Roman and Christian sources. The Brahmanical theory
of the gift (i.e., the theory of dutiful gifting, dharmadāna) is a major focus of, and has provided a major motivation for, this study.weiterlesen
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