{"product_id":"the-efficacy-of-sacrifice-von-clemens-cavallin","title":"The Efficacy of Sacrifice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book analyses the sacrificial world view of the  Vedic Brahmana texts with particular attention to  the Aitareya Brahmana. The question in focus is how  these texts argue for the efficacy of the Vedic  sacrificial acts; how they built up legitimacy for  sacrifices that became more and more elaborate, time  consuming and costly.  The main strategy of the Brahmana texts is to  explain the power of Sacrifice as resting upon an  intricate web of correspondences between entities  within and outside of the ritual enclosure.  The directions of these correspondences are mainly  from the ritual realm to entities within categories  such as Cosmos, Varna, Animals and Man. Of these,  Man constitutes the most important category, and  within it the breaths (i.e. the vital powers of man)  occupy a prominent place.  The frequent use of breath, or the breaths, as the  goal of the sacrificial rituals, however, initiates  a process that undermines the intricate system of  correspondences. The sacrifice becomes dependent on  human interiority both for its efficacy (the  knowledge of the correspondences) and for its goal  (the vital powers of man).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9783843389563\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eCorrespondences in the Rigvedic Brahmanas\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9783843389563","offer_id":39497041477725,"sku":"9783843389563","price":79.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/caf327ee-67da-4c40-be19-3b3bebd94654.jpg?v=1737613479","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-efficacy-of-sacrifice-von-clemens-cavallin","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}