Renate Söhnen
Biographic Data
| ID | 704754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renate Söhnen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renate |
| FAMILY NAME | Söhnen |
| SIGNATURE | SÖHNEN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the concept and presentation of yamaka in early Indian poetic theory
Figures of repetition occur very early in Sanskrit literature. In the oldest stratum, the hymns of the Rgveda, this phenomenon seems to be restricted to the repetition of words with the same meaning, its function being either to express continuation or regularity, i.e. in the case when a single word, normally an adverb, is duplicated (āmreḍita, e.g. dive-dive), or to give a special emphasis to a phrase, preferably at the end of a number of stanza…
Brahmapurāṇa
Indra and Women
Since Indra is, above all, the god of victory in battle for his believers in the Rgveda, it might not be expected that he would have relevance for women, since they do not take part in war. Moreover, the hymns of the Rgveda are composed by men; thus we can scarcely expect to learn what role Indra may have played in the religious belief of women, whether they addressed prayers to him at all, and if so, prayers of what content. We have, however (be…
Sanskrit Indices and Text of the Brahmapurāṇa
Untersuchungen zur Komposition von Reden und Gesprächen im Rāmāyaṇa
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Untersuchungen zur Komposition von Reden und Gesprächen im Rāmāyaṇa
Sanskrit Indices and Text of the Brahmapurāṇa
Brahmapurāṇa
Indra and Women
Since Indra is, above all, the god of victory in battle for his believers in the Rgveda, it might not be expected that he would have relevance for women, since they do not take part in war. Moreover, the hymns of the Rgveda are composed by men; thus we can scarcely expect to learn what role Indra may have played in the religious belief of women, whether they addressed prayers to him at all, and if so, prayers of what content. We have, however (be…
On the concept and presentation of yamaka in early Indian poetic theory
Figures of repetition occur very early in Sanskrit literature. In the oldest stratum, the hymns of the Rgveda, this phenomenon seems to be restricted to the repetition of words with the same meaning, its function being either to express continuation or regularity, i.e. in the case when a single word, normally an adverb, is duplicated (āmreḍita, e.g. dive-dive), or to give a special emphasis to a phrase, preferably at the end of a number of stanza…
Indian and Buddhist Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (2 works) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 works) · Hymn (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)