Blaues Buchcover der Monographie Sūryās Hochzeit: Kohärenz von Text und Ritual im Ṛgveda (10.85) von Anne Keßler-Persaud

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Keßler-Persaud, Anne: Sūryās Hochzeit: Kohärenz von Text und Ritual im Ṛgveda (10.85), Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2025 (Monographs on Indian Archaeology, Art and Philology, Volume 28). https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1457

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08/26/2025

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Anne Keßler-Persaud

Sūryās Hochzeit

Kohärenz von Text und Ritual im Ṛgveda (10.85)

Monographs on Indian Archaeology, Art and Philology

The Ṛgveda is a collection of over a thousand Sanskrit hymns dating from around 1000 BCE. The style of the hymns is typically highly poetic. However, the Sūryāsūkta (Ṛgveda 10.85) included in this collection is considered a loosely structured compilation of wedding-related stanzas.

In this book, Anne Keßler-Persaud questions this fundamental assumption about the Sūryāsūkta’s degree of textuality. With the help of text-linguistic and hermeneutic methods, she proves a strong coherence of this text. The Sūryāsūkta displays a sophisticated metrical and rhetorical structure and poetically communicates an equally coherent sequence of the wedding ritual of the goddess Sūryā.

Anne Keßler-Persaud studied Indology and Anthropology at the University of Göttingen and received her doctorate from the University of Heidelberg. The focus of her research lies in the field of Indian philology and philology and interdisciplinary studies of myth and ritual. Her work explores Vedic, Hindu and Jain texts and traditions, including the Gṛhyasūtras, Indian comics and classical dance.

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Table of Contents
Pages
PDF
Front matter
1-5
Inhaltsverzeichnis
7-8
Vorwort
9-10
Danksagung
11
1 Einleitung
13-26
2 Eine Neuinterpretation des Sūryāsūkta in textlinguistischem Theorierahmen
27-532
3 Kohärenz und Unsterblichkeit
533-550
Literaturverzeichnis
551-568
Verzeichnis der Strophen und pādas
569-574
Verzeichnis der Vergleichstextstellen
575-577
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