Puja and Samskara Motilal Banarsidass on Carvaka and Buddhist philosophy

on Carvaka and Buddhist philosophy

I express my indebtedness to the departed soul

I regret very much that the second edition could not be brought out (in time owing to labour unrest and other post-war difficulties in publication

In English

and when a of days have passed after death

Puja and Samskara Motilal Banarsidass on Carvaka and Buddhist philosophyThis book treats two representative Hindu rituals of contemporary India, Puja (offering service) and Samskara (initiation rituals at important occasions of life). Samskara rites are performed at significant junctures of an individual's life, from birth to death, by the individual's family. Puja rites, rather than being performed in relation to the life cycle of an individual in a family, are more deeply related to the annual rituals of the cult to