Asko Parpola’s scientific contributions

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Publications (1)


The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and The Indus Civilization
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September 2015

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Asko Parpola

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... It is the undeniable concentration of marginal elements in the Atharvavedic tradition that allows Parpola (2015) to go so far as to make a case for its belonging to a religion originally separate from that represented by the core of the R̥ gveda and Soma-centric Śrauta ritual.41 I would rather say that the Atharvaveda tradition consolidated a host of marginal practices, but that these still belong, albeit as minor ritual modes of varying acceptability, to Vedic priestly tradition as a whole, for which Śrauta ritual was the major mode. ...

Reference:

The Marginality of the Atharvaveda in Its Historical Context
The Roots of Hinduism: The Early Aryans and The Indus Civilization
  • Citing Book
  • September 2015