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Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper
Publications - 13
Citations - 188
Franciscus Bernardus Jacobus Kuiper is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sanskrit & Sanskrit literature. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 13 publications receiving 181 citations.
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The ancient Aryan verbal contest
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the social and cultural background of the Rigvedie poetry and present a set of studies devoted to a social as well as religious phenomenon, which may contribute to correcting the perspective and to eliminating some views about the Vedic society that are still materially based on the theories of Vedische Studien.
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The Genesis of a Linguistic Area
TL;DR: In the course of the ages, there has been a slow but steady cultural process of Indianization of those Aryan tribes who had once, in a prehistoric period, invaded India from Iran as mentioned in this paper, which brought Indo-Aryan, the language of the invaders, more and more into harmony with the languages of the indigenous families.
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Ancient Indian cosmogony
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The Basic Concept of Vedic Religion
TL;DR: The basic concept of Vedic religion is no doubt an unusual object of study, as it implies at least three assumptions: first, that the time has come for a more general survey of this religion; second, that there actually does exist a basic concept; and third, that something sensible can be said about it.