amrita

[Steven Lindquist]

Dear Victor,

On "immortality," see Olivelle's "Amṛtā: Women and Indian  
Technologies of Immortality," Journal of Indian Philosophy. 25: 427–
49, 1997.  Free download at: http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/olivelle/articles.htm 
   See esp. Thieme's "Ambrosia" (cited within).

My best,

Steven

On May 16, 2009, at 4:42 AM, victor van bijlert wrote:

> Dear friends,
>
> I remember vaguely to have learned that in Vedic Sanskrit the word  
> amrita
> does not mean immortality but rather something like ' long life'.  
> Can anyone
> provide me with some references to articles on this word? I am also  
> looking
> for parallels in other Vedic texts of the so-called Purusha-sukta  
> (Rig Veda
> 10.90).Or perhaps adaptations of this hymn in later Sanskrit  
> literature:
> Epics, Puranas.
>
> With many greetings and many thanks
>
> Victor van Bijlert