Document Outline

  • Mantra and Mother of the Vedas - U1
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Note on Spelling
  • Note on Sources and Translations
  • Map
  • Source Periodization
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 Meaning
  • Chapter 2 Designations
  • Chapter 3 Adaptive Reuse in Śrauta Ritual
  • Chapter 4 Selection as Initiation Mantra
  • Chapter 5 Status in Early Hinduism
  • Chapter 6 Personification, Divinization,Deification
  • Chapter 7 Identification with Sāvitrī
  • Chapter 8 The Mantra Goddess
  • General Conclusion: From Verse to Deity
  • appendix 1 Translations of the Gāyatrī-Mantra
  • appendix 2 gāyatrī /sāvitrī in the Mahābhārata
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDICES
  • Mantra and Mother of the Vedas - U4