The Roots of Hinduism : The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization
| 1. Verfasser: |
Parpola, Asko
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015].
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 363 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
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- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Defining 'Hindu' and 'Hinduism'
- 2. The early Aryans
- 3. Indo-European linguistics
- 4. The Indus civilization
- 5. The Indus religion and the Indus script
- Part I: The Early Aryans
- 6. Proto-Indo-European homelands
- 7. Early Indo-Iranians on the Eurasian steppes
- 8. The BMAC of Central Asia and the Mitanni of Syria
- 9. The Rigvedic Indo-Aryans and the Dasas
- 10. The Asvins and Mitra-Varuna
- 11. The Asvins as funerary gods
- 12. The Atharvaveda and the Vratyas
- 13. The Megalithic Culture and the Great Epics
- Part II: The Indus Civilization
- 14. The language of the Indus civilization
- 15. Fertility cults in folk religion
- 16. Astronomy, time-reckoning and cosmology
- 17. Dilmun, Magan and Meluhha
- 18. Royal symbols from West Asia
- 19. The Goddess and the buffalo
- 20. Early Iranians and 'left-hand' Tantrism
- 21. Religion in the Indus script
- Conclusion
- 22. Prehistory of Indo-Aryan Language and Religion
- 23. Harappan Religion in Relation to West and South Asia
- 24. Retrospect and prospect
- Bibliographical notes
- References
- Index.
