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| The Seven Oceans in the Purāṇas and Elsewhere | ||
| 作者 | Sandahl, Stella (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Acta Orientalia: Ediderunt Societates Orientales Batava Danica Norvegica |
| 卷期 | v.73 |
| 出版日期 | 2012 |
| 頁次 | 151 - 172 |
| 出版者 | E.J.Brill |
| 出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Author Affiliation: University of Toronto. 2. This article is a considerably extended version of a paper presented at the XIIIth World Sanskrit Conference in Edinburgh in 2006. |
| 摘要 | It is unclear when the notion of seven oceans originated. The Vedas have only four oceans. However, the seven oceans are present in the much later Purāṇas. The oceans seem to represent a fantasy about the good things in life, such as milk, curd, ghee, wine, and sugar cane juice. The same picture is present in the Mahābhārata with the exception of the sugar cane ocean. These oceans also represent a transition from cattle-herding nomadic society to a settled agricultural society. Although there is a description of a ritual called the saptasāgaramahādāna in the Matsyapurāṇa, performed by merchants before sailing out on a trading expedition, the Purāṇas were written by Brahmins for Brahmins. The seven oceans in the Buddhist literature are very different, even though they share the same names to a certain extent. Here we are clearly dealing with merchants crossing dangerous oceans in pursuit of riches, which in its own way corroborates the fact that Buddhism was an anti-brahminical sect with its main following among vaiśyas and kṣatriyas. |
| 目次 | Abstract 151 References 170 |
| ISSN | 00016438 (P); 16000439 (E) |
| DOI | 10.5617/ao.4845 |
| 點閱次數 | 64 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.10.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.10.11 |
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