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Bodewitz, Hendrik Wilhelm was born on October 13, 1939 in Gramsbergen, The Netherlands. Son of Johan Adriaan and Jennigjen (Lenters) Bodewitz.
(Book summary of the daily evening and morning offering(ag...)
Book summary of the daily evening and morning offering(agnihotra) after p e dumont (baltimore 1939) had presented a survey ofthe description of the agnihotra ritual as found in the ritualistic sutras, thisbook (originally published in 1976) offered a systematic treatment of theesoteric interpretations of this ritual as found in the vedic prose texts(including the relevant sections of the yajurvedic samhitas ) theagnihotra formed the starting-point for several important doctrines which werefurther developed in later texts apart from its ritualistic relevance it istherefore also of great importance for the early history of ideas in india thesystematic arrangement of the sections translated here increases our knowledgeabout the network of parallel vedic texts, their borrowings and relativechronology
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Sanskrit educator university dean
Bodewitz, Hendrik Wilhelm was born on October 13, 1939 in Gramsbergen, The Netherlands. Son of Johan Adriaan and Jennigjen (Lenters) Bodewitz.
Master of Arts, University Utrecht (The Netherlands), 1966. Doctor of Letters, University Utrecht (The Netherlands), 1973.
Senior lecturer University Leiden, Netherlands, 1969-1976, professor Sanskrit, 1992—2002. Lecturer University Utrecht, 1966-1968, professor Sanskrit, 1976-1992, dean faculty, 1980-1982, 84-86.
(Book summary of the daily evening and morning offering(ag...)
(Book by Bodewitz, H. W.)
Author: Jaiminiya Brahmana I, 1-65, 1973, Daily evening and morning offering, 1976, second edition, 2003, The Jyotistoma Ritual, 1990, Light, Soul and Visions in the Veda, 1991, Kausitaki Upanisad, 2002. Editor Gonda Indological Studies.
Member Royal Netherlands Academy, Academia Europaea (founder).
Married Janneke van Uchelen, October 24, 1964. Children: Johan Adriaan, Wanda Alida.