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Throw light on the nature of religion and classification of gods mentioned in the Rigveda.
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- Aryans and Vedic Period
Rigvedic religion belonged to a pastoral, semi-nomadic tribal society that had not yet developed a settled theology, a fixed pantheon, or a professional priestly bureaucracy of the kind later Vedic ritualism would produce. Its gods were, above all, personifications of natural and cosmic forces the early Vedic Aryans could neither explain nor control, approached through…
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- Naturalistic Polytheism and Anthropomorphic Imagination
- The Sacrificial Economy: Yajna as Exchange
- Doubt Within Devotion: The Seeds of Speculative Thought
- Classifying the Pantheon
- Henotheism and the Absence of a Fixed Hierarchy
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