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Samskara : a rite for a dead man / U.R. Ananthamurthy.
Language: English Original language: Kannada Publisher: India : Oxford University Press, 2012Copyright date: ©1976Edition: Second editionDescription: x, 143 pages ; 22 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198077145 (pbk.)
- 0198077149 (pbk.)
- Saṃskāra. English
- 894.81437 ANA S213 2012
Contents:
Content:
I. Introduction.
U.R. Anantha Murthty’s ‘Samskara’ was first published in 1965 and it was made into a film in 1970. Since then, it had created a lot of controversy in academic and non-academic circles. The theme of the novel is the story of a decaying brahmin agrahara in the old Konkan region The title of the novel ‘Samskara’ has different meanings. According to ‘A Kannada- English Dictionary’ by Reverent F. Kittel, the word ‘Samskara’ has the Following nine possible meanings:
1. Forming well or thoroughly, making perfect, perfecting; finishing refining, refinement, accomplishment.
2. Forming in the mind, conception, idea, and notion; the power of memory, faculty of recollection, the realizing of past perceptions.
3. Preparation, making ready, preparation of food etc., cooking, dressing...
4. Making sacred, hallowing..
5. Consecration, consecration of a king, dedication etc.
6. Making pure, purification, purity.
7. A sanctifying or purificatory rite or essential ceremony (enjoyed on all the first three classes or castes).
8. Any rite or ceremony
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Content:
I. Introduction.
U.R. Anantha Murthty’s ‘Samskara’ was first published in 1965 and it was made into a film in 1970. Since then, it had created a lot of controversy in academic and non-academic circles. The theme of the novel is the story of a decaying brahmin agrahara in the old Konkan region The title of the novel ‘Samskara’ has different meanings. According to ‘A Kannada- English Dictionary’ by Reverent F. Kittel, the word ‘Samskara’ has the Following nine possible meanings:
1. Forming well or thoroughly, making perfect, perfecting; finishing refining, refinement, accomplishment.
2. Forming in the mind, conception, idea, and notion; the power of memory, faculty of recollection, the realizing of past perceptions.
3. Preparation, making ready, preparation of food etc., cooking, dressing...
4. Making sacred, hallowing..
5. Consecration, consecration of a king, dedication etc.
6. Making pure, purification, purity.
7. A sanctifying or purificatory rite or essential ceremony (enjoyed on all the first three classes or castes).
8. Any rite or ceremony
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