Ardor (80 page)

Vi
ś
v
ā
mitra

Vi
ś
var
ū
pa

Vi
ś
v
ā
vasu

Vi
ś
vedev
āḥ

vital breaths (
pr
āṇ
a
);
see also
breath

Vivasvat

voice;
see
word; V
ā
c;
v
ā
c

Voltaire

vow (
vrata
);
see also mah
ā
vrata

v
ṛ
-
(“to cover,” “to wrap”)

vrata
(“way of life,” “vow”);
see also
vow

V
ṛṣā
kap
ā
y
ī

V
ṛṣā
kapi

V
ṛ
tra

Vy
ā
sa

Wagner, Richard

wakefulness

walking upright

war

warrior (
k
ṣ
atriya
);
see also k
ṣ
atriya

water, waters (
ā
pas
)

wave (
salilá
)

Weil, Simone

wheel

White, John

White Yajur Veda

Wilamowitz, Ulrich von

Wilde, Oscar

wind

Witzel, Michael

woman

womb

wooden sword (
sphya
)

word (
lógos
)

work (
opus
);
see also
action;
karman

world, worlds;
see also
creation; world order

world order (
Weltordnung
,
ṛ
ta
)

Xenophon

ya eva
ṃ
veda
(“he who knows thus”)

Yahweh

yaj-
(“to sacrifice”)

yajam
ā
na
(“sacrificer”);
see also
sacrificer

yajña
(“sacrifice”);
see also
ritual, liturgy, ceremony

Y
ā
jñavalkya

Yajurveda
;
see also
hymns

yajus
(“ritual formula,”
mantra
of the Yajur Veda);
see also Yajurveda

Yama;
see also
death;
m
ṛ
tyu
; M
ṛ
tyu

year

yielding (
ty
ā
ga
)

yoga
(“yoke,” “junction”);
see also
yoking

yoking;
see also yoga

y
ū
pa
(“post”);
see also
sacrificial post

Zarathustra

Zen

Zeus

Zhou

Zuo zhuan

Zürau

ILLUSTRATION
CREDITS

Frontispiece © National Museum of India, New Delhi, India/The Bridgeman Art Library/Archivi Alinari. Illustrations
here
,
here
, and
here
© Mehrangarh Museum Trust; photographs courtesy of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. Illustration
here
© 2010 Digital Image Museum Associates/LACMA/Art Resource NY/Scala, Florence. Illustration
here
© 2010 Foto Scala, Florence. Illustration
here
© Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (OL000100/1).

ALSO BY ROBERTO CALASSO

I. The Ruin of Kasch

II. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

III. Ka

IV. K.

V. Tiepolo Pink

VI. La Folie Baudelaire

The Forty-nine Steps

Literature and the Gods

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND TRANSLATOR

Roberto Calasso is the publisher of Adelphi Edizioni in Milan and the author of many books.
Ardor
is the seventh part of a work in progress, following
The Ruin of Kasch
,
The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony
,
Ka
,
K.
,
Tiepolo Pink
, and
La Folie Baudelaire
.

Richard Dixon lives and works in Italy. His translations include
The Prague Cemetery
and
Inventing the Enemy
by Umberto Eco and he is one of the translators of FSG’s edition of Giacomo Leopardi’s
Zibaldone
.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Copyright © 2010 by Adelphi Edizioni S.p.A. Milano

Translation copyright © 2014 by Richard Dixon

All rights reserved

Originally published in Italian in 2010 by Adelphi Edizioni, Italy, as
L’ardore
English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
First American edition, 2014

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Calasso, Roberto, author.

    [Ardore. English]

    Ardor / Roberto Calasso; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon.

        pages    cm

    Includes index.

    ISBN 978-0-374-18231-1 (hardback) — ISBN 978-1-4299-5580-5 (ebook)

    1.  Vedas—Criticism, interpretation, etc.   I.  Dixon, Richard, translator.   II.  Title.

BL1112 .26 C3513 2014

294.5'921046—dc23

2013044345

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