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200 1. $a The roots of hinduism $b Texte imprimé $e the early aryans and the indus civilization $f Asko Parpola
210 .. $a New York (N.Y.) $c Oxford University Press $d cop. 2015
215 .. $a 1 vol. (XVI- 363 p.) $c ill. $d 26 cm
300 .. $a Bibliogr. p. 323-344. Index
327 1. $a 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 Dāsas ; 10. The Aśvins
and Mitra-Varuṇa ; 11. The Aśvins as funerary gods ; 12. The Atharvaveda and the
Vrātyas ; 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.
330 .. $a "Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South
Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages,
a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the
Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which left behind exquisitely carved
seals and thousands of short inscriptions in a long-forgotten pictographic script.
Discovered in the valley of the Indus River in the early 1920s, the Indus civilization
had a population estimated at one million people, in more than 1000 settlements, several
of which were cities of some 50,000 inhabitants. With an area of nearly a million
square kilometers, the Indus civilization was more extensive than the contemporaneous
urban cultures of Mesopotamia and Egypt. Yet, after almost a century of excavation
and research the Indus civilization remains little understood. How might we decipher
the Indus inscriptions? What language did the Indus people speak? What deities did
they worship? Asko Parpola has spent fifty years researching the roots of Hinduism
to answer these fundamental questions, which have been debated with increasing animosity
since the rise of Hindu nationalist politics in the 1980s. In this pioneering book,
he traces the archaeological route of the Indo-Iranian languages from the Aryan homeland
north of the Black Sea to Central, West, and South Asia. His new ideas on the formation
of the Vedic literature and rites and the great Hindu epics hinge on the profound
impact that the invention of the horse-drawn chariot had on Indo-Aryan religion. Parpola's
comprehensive assessment of the Indus language and religion is based on all available
textual, linguistic and archaeological evidence, including West Asian sources and
the Indus script. The results affirm cultural and religious continuity to the present
day and, among many other things, shed new light on the prehistory of the key Hindu
goddess Durga and her Tantric cult" ; "This pioneering study derives Hinduism from
the traditions brought to South Asia by Aryan-speaking pastoralists from the Eurasian
steppes and those of the Indus Civilization, reconstructed from its visual and inscriptional
remains and from West Asian and classical/modern South Asian sources"
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