[INDOLOGY] Source of "nAdevo devam arcayet"

Tue Sep 30 23:53:29 UTC 2014

These references are interesting precisely in the light of what is already
very clearly found in Vedic texts (RV 5.44.14-15) and ritual:
see my article THE BRAHMIN INTELLECTUAL: HISTORY, RITUAL AND “TIME OUT OF
TIME” (JIPh 30 [2002]) paragr. 3.3.
Jan

3.3
We thus see that the ritual as well as the Brahmana-explanations

associated with it possess features inevitably undermining and doing away
with the narrativity and historicity which, following Ricoeur’s

comprehensive analysis, at once pervade and shape mundane life. ... For
instance when the sacrificer in the Soma-sacrifice

has undergone the consecration (diksa) he is declared consecrated (diksita)
and one should not touch him nor call him by his own name until after the
sacrifice is over (Caland and Henry 1906: 20–21).

... The Adhvaryu-priest, at the beginning of the main offering on new- or
fullmoon day, is required to “think on Prajapati” (prajapatim manasa
dhyayan, Apastamba Srauta Sutra 2.12.7).

... formulas such as the so-called Dasahotr (Taittiriya Aranyaka 3.1) which
gives cosmic identifications of participants and instruments in the
sacrifice (Apastamba Srauta Sutra 4.9.3). ...

The participants thus associate themselves with cosmic entities, or even
lose their personalities of worldly narrative reality when they are
identified as players in an ahistoric cosmic drama.

Prof. Dr. Jan E.M. Houben,
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On 29 September 2014 13:09, Dr. T. Ganesan <ganesan at ifpindia.org> wrote:

>
> The statement nArudro [= nAshivaH, nAdevo] rudram arcayet / contains the
> fundamental Agamic/tantric view that one has to visualise oneself as [and
> thereby become] the God one worships and then proceed to the ritual of
> worship. This is the underlying theme  of all Agamic/tantraic worship which
> is NOT found in the Vedic/puranic tradition.
>
> Ganesan
>
>
>
>
> On 29-09-2014 15:22, Walter Slaje wrote:
>
>  This is interesting, as Maṅkha cherishes the opposite opinion, according
> to which no human (ruler), but only god, deserves praise - by man, e.g.:
>
>  *mahat kaṣṭam aho hitvā yac charvaṃ sarvataḥśrutim*[1]
> <#148c11aae6f90b1e__ftn1>* |*
>
> *garvānavadhibādhiryo nareṇa stūyate naraḥ* || Śrīkaṇṭhacarita 25.6 ||
>
>  ------------------------------
>
> [1] <#148c11aae6f90b1e__ftnref1> sarvataḥśrutim (em.)]* sarvataḥ śrutim *
> Ed.
>
>   Regards,
>  WS
> 
>
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>  2014-09-29 11:00 GMT+02:00 Dr. T. Ganesan <ganesan at ifpindia.org>:
>
>>
>> nAdevo devamarcayet might be a general statement; but in the ancient
>> unpublished text of Sivadharma, there is a passage:
>>
>>
>> nārudraḥ saṁsmared rudraṃ nārudro rudram arcayet .
>>
>> nārudraḥ kīrtayed rudraṃ nārudro rudram āpnuyāt  .. (Sivadharma, 1: 25)
>>
>> This idea and the passage may be the basis for all later views expressed
>> in the same fashion.
>>
>> Ganesan
>>
>>
>> On 29-09-2014 02:45, Chiara Policardi wrote:
>>
>>  Dear List members,
>>
>> what is the source of the citation “nAdevo devam arcayet”?
>>
>> It is quoted as “vedic saying” (Coomaraswamy) and “tantrik saying”
>> (Eliade and others), but I haven’t ever seen the precise reference.
>>
>>
>>  Thanking you in advance,
>>
>>
>>  Chiara Policardi
>>
>> PhD student
>>
>> La Sapienza University of Rome
>>
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