Jan C. Heesterman's The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration, Mouton and Co, 's-Gravenhage, 1957, is a scholarly study of the rajasuya ritual. Its strength is that it is a close textual study by an established Indologist, working directly from the Vedic ritual texts rather than secondary summaries of them. Its limit is the ordinary one for a study now well over sixty years old: later Vedic ritual scholarship has continued to develop since 1957, so it is best read as a foundational study rather than the current state of the field.
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AuthorJan C. Heesterman
PublisherMouton & Co, 's-Gravenhage
Disputationes Rheno-Trajectinae II, 1957 first edition. Publication Year1957
Source Typeacademic monograph
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Reliability tier 1: a close scholarly textual study by an established Indologist working directly from the Vedic ritual texts, foundational though now well over sixty years old. NotesScholarly study of the ancient Indian royal consecration (rajasuya) ritual, 1957.
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