Fire and Cognition in the Rgveda

Jurewicz, Joanna:
Fire and cognition in the Ṛgveda / Joanna Jurewicz. - Warszawa : Dom Wydawniczy ELIPSA, 2010. - 485 S.
ISBN 978-83-7151-893-5
Zł. 40,00
DDC: 294.59212046

Inhalt
Acknowledgements. 5
INTRODUCTION
Preface. 17
1. Reconstruction of the Ṛgvedic Thought by Means of Cognitive Linguistics. 26
2. Creation of the World in the Nāsadīya (RV 10.129). 44
PART ONE: THE DEFINING EVENTS
3. Expansion. 63
4. Appearance of the morning light. 107
5. Pressing of Soma. 143
6. Agni and other defining events. 184
PART TWO. PHILOSOPHICAL MODELS
7. The philosophical model of Child of the Waters. 201
8. The philosophical model of the Boiled in the Raw. 215
9. The philosophical models of the wave of honey and of streams of clarified butter. 226
10. The philosophical model of The Aṅgirases freeing cows. 255
11. The philosophical model of The Aṅgirases Freeing Cows. The attainment of immortality in the sacrifice. 276
12. The philosophical model of The Aṅgirases Freeing Cows. Dying. 288
13. Agni as the centre of the Ṛgvedic metaphysics. 321
PART THREE. GODS’ ACTIVITY AND METAPHYSICS
14. The fight of Indra with Vṛtra (the vṛtrahatya myth). 339
15. Bṛhaspati. 365
16. Viṣṇu. 385
17. Varuṇa. 396
18. The Ṛgvedic gods, Agni and the Nāsadīya. 435
Concluding remarks. 441
Appendix I. Main conceptual metaphors in the RV analysed in the book. 444
Appendix II. Main conceptual metonymies in the RV analysed in the book. 454
Appendix III. The Ṛgvedic general domains and the general model of reality transformation. 457
Appendix IV. Diagrams of philosophical models. 459
Appendix V. Stanzas discussed in the book. 467
Bibliography. 469

Autorin

JOANNA JUREWICZ, South Asian Studies, University of Warsaw. Faculty page.

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