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.
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] |
garvānavadhibādhiryo nareṇa stūyate naraḥ || Śrīkaṇṭhacarita 25.6 ||
Regards,
WS
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studia humanitatis impigro labore culturum et provecturum
non sordidi lucri causa nec ad vanam captandam gloriam,
sed quo magis veritas propagetur et lux eius, qua salus
humani generis continetur, clarius effulgeat.
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2014-09-29 11:00 GMT+02:00 Dr. T. Ganesan <ganesan@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nAdevo devamarcayet might be a general statement; but in the ancient unpublished text of Sivadharma, there is a passage: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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