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Start Over Search Limiters Full Text Topic caste system Language spanish Journal revista de filologia y linguistica de la universidad de costa rica Publisher universidad de costa rica

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1. EL CUERPO CÓSMICO COMO METÁFORA DEL ORDEN DIVINO, NATURAL Y SOCIAL: UNA INTERPRETACIÓN DEL HIMNO AL PURUṢA (R.V. X, 90).

Author

Morales Harley, Roberto

Subjects
*HYMNS, *PRIMORDIALISM, *SOCIAL order, *HINDUISM, *METAPHYSICAL cosmology, *SOCIAL stratification
Abstract

The Ṛg Veda is the oldest literary work in India. It consists of a collection of 1028 religious hymns, ordered in 10 books, whose composition dates back to approximately 1500 B.C., with the arrival of the Indo-Europeans to the subcontinent. The Puruṣa hymn (R.V. X, 90) is a cosmogonic text: it explains the origin of the world from the sacrifice of a primordial human being; and also a cosmological text: it supports the divine, natural and social order. In this paper, an interpretation of this literary image of the body is proposed as a determining factor for the caste systems adopted by Hindu society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2013