Indra and Varuna in Indian mythology

1st ed.
Indra and Varuna in Indian mythology
Usha Choudhuri, Usha Choudhuri
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Indra and Varuna in Indian mythology

1st ed.

Indra and Varuna are the two most important archetypal symbols of Indian mythology. This book reviews the development of the myths related to there figures in the entire Vedic literature, the Mahabharata and the principal Puranas. It studies the meterological, physiological, psychological, political, social, religious and philosophical interpretations of these two mythological and literary images. This book concludes that mythically the two most important and exalted Vedic Gods-Indra and Varuna of Vedas fall of from their position at the emergence of the Hindu trinity in the Mahabharata and the Puranas but philosophically they remain as important as before representing the two complementary aspects of the cosmic reality at various levels of existence. One represents the truth of being, the other the truth of becoming; one represents the spirit, the other the matter; one symbolizes the vast creative principle and the other the enveloping formless void; one denotes metaphorically the day, and the other the night.

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Nag Publishers
Language
English
Pages
247

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Delhi, 1965)

Published in
Delhi
Series
N.P. series ;, 51

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
294.5/211
Library of Congress
BL1225.I6 C56 1981

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Pagination
xxii, 247 p. ;
Number of pages
247

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3930806M
LCCN
81905114
OCLC/WorldCat
8369919

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