• Jan Gonda (14 April 1905 – 28 July 1991) was a Dutch Indologist and the first Utrecht professor of Sanskrit. He was born in Gouda, in the Netherlands...
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    the Shatapatha Brahmana), were complete by about 700 BCE. According to Jan Gonda, the final codification of the Brahmanas took place in pre-Buddhist times...
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    Samhita layer of Vedic literature, conceived in the Brahmana layer, states Jan Gonda. Prajapati is younger than Savitr, and the word was originally an epithet...
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    Longmans Green. p. 757. Jan Gonda (1989). The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda. Brill Archive. pp. 4–5. ISBN 90-04-09139-4. Jan Gonda (1989). The Indra Hymns...
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  • Mythology, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-533261-2, page 285 Jan Gonda (1975), Vedic Literature: (Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas), Otto Harrassowitz...
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    ISBN 978-0226894843. Jan Gonda (1969), The Hindu Trinity Archived 25 April 2020 at the Wayback Machine, Anthropos, Bd 63/64, H 1/2, pp. 212–226. Jan Gonda (1969),...
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  • 393-394 Jan Gonda (1975), Vedic Literature: Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas, Vol 1, Fasc. 1, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, ISBN 978-3447016032, pages 273-274 Jan Gonda (1975)...
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    thereafter his profile rises and over the history of Indian scriptures, states Jan Gonda, Vishnu becomes a divinity of the highest rank, one equivalent to the...
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    India). A kautuka is a woven thread, cord or ribbon, states the Indologist Jan Gonda, which is traditionally believed to be protective or apotropaeic. The...
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    the Srauta sutra 1.12.12 and Paraskara Gryhasutra 3.2.10 through 3.4.5. Jan Gonda states that the diverse reference of Brahman in the Vedic literature,...
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    spiritual and emotional significance the deity represents to the devotee. Jan Gonda, as well as Diana L. Eck, states that a typical Puja involves one or more...
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  • not indicate a forested area. Aranyakas are diverse in their structure. Jan Gonda summarizes: The structure of the Aranyakas is as little homogenous as...
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  • up Gonda or hi:गोंड़ा in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gonda may refer to: Gonda, Uttar Pradesh, a city in Uttar Pradesh Gonda district Gonda Junction...
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    traditions, passed on from a guru to a disciple through prescribed initiation. Jan Gonda, a widely cited scholar on Indian mantras, defines mantra as general name...
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    Sculptures in the round, the ornamental architectural Sculptures ..." Jan Gonda, The Indian Religions in Pre-Islamic Indonesia and their survival in Bali...
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  • Kashmiri literature. A history of Indian literature / Series editor Jan Gonda Vol. 8, Modern Indian-Aryan literatures, part 1 (Reprint 2020 ed.). New...
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    ISBN 978-0-7864-5973-5. Jan Gonda (1975), Vedic Literature (Samhitäs and Brähmanas), (HIL I.I) Wiesbaden: OH; also Jan Gonda, Selected Studies (4 volumes)...
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    1986, p. 66-70. Chakravarti 1986, p. 1, 66-70. Flood 2003, pp. 208–214. Jan Gonda (1975). Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 3 Southeast Asia, Religions...
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  • p. 5. ISBN 978-0-7190-1867-1. Rocher, Ludo (1986). "The Purāṇas". In Jan Gonda (ed.). A History of Indian Literature. Vol. II, Epics and Sanskrit religious...
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    pp. 161–172. doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-5947-3_13. ISBN 978-1-4612-5949-7. Jan Gonda, The Indian Religions in Pre-Islamic Indonesia and their survival in Bali...
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  • large canon of texts, and branched off as numerous Dharma-sastra texts. Jan Gonda states that the initial stages of Smṛti texts structurally developed in...
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    Archived from the original on 7 January 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015. Jan Gonda (2016). Visnuism and Sivaism: A Comparison. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 166...
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    Gerschevitch, Boyce, Macdonnell, Hermann Oldenberg, Geldner, Venkatesvaran, and Jan Gonda.: 1–37  Kuiper calls Asuras a special group of gods in one of major Vedic...
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    Samhita as referring to a tradition of "five knowledges". Similarly, Jan Gonda states that the term "nights" in "five nights" in the Pancharatra tradition...
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    Hindu Mythology, Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0195332612, p. 285 Jan Gonda (1975), Vedic Literature: (Saṃhitās and Brāhmaṇas), Otto Harrassowitz...
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    Rigveda. Oxford University Press. pp. 1622–1623. ISBN 978-0-19-937018-4. Jan Gonda (1969). Aspects of Early Viṣṇuism. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 241–242 with...
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    Petalled Lotus: Jain Temples of Rajasthan, ISBN 978-8170173489, p. 5 Jan Gonda (1963), The Indian Mantra, Oriens, Vol. 16, pp. 244–297 Julius Lipner...
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    BCE – 300 CE) (Hiltebeitel 2007, p. 12, Larson 2009). Scholars such as Jan Gonda have used the term ancient Hinduism, distinguishing it from "recent Hinduism"...
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  • Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 9788120811133. Gonda, Jan (1969). Aspects of Early Viṣṇuism - Jan Gonda - Google Książki. Motilal Banarsidass Publ. ISBN 9788120810877...
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  • intoxicate, delude, as well as māy- which means "disappear, be lost". Jan Gonda considers the word related to mā, which means "mother", as do Tracy Pintchman...
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