Author: Dr. G.P. Bhatt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120839110
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2312
Book Description
Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 44
Author: Dr. G.P. Bhatt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120839110
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2312
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120839110
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2312
Book Description
Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology;: The Padma-purāṇa, pt. 4-8
Author: Jagdish Lal Shastri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Hindu mythological texts.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Hindu mythological texts.
Indo-European Fire Rituals
Author: Anders Kaliff
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000822877
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today’s cremations on open pyres in Hinduism. Exploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fires in relation to agriculture and fertility may also explain the enigma of cremation. Cremated remains were ground and used in fertility rituals, and ancestral fires played an essential role in metallurgy and the creation of cosmos. Thus, the role of fire rituals in culture and cosmology enables a unique understanding of historic developmental processes. For students and academics studying Indo-European culture history from the Bronze Age onwards, this book has a broad interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography, folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000822877
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
Indo-European Fire Rituals is a comparative study of Indo-European fire rituals from modern folklore and ethnography in Scandinavia and archaeological material in Europe from the Bronze Age onwards to the Vedic origins of cosmos in India and today’s cremations on open pyres in Hinduism. Exploring Indo-European fire rituals and sacrifices throughout history and fire in its fundamental role in rites and religious practices, this book analyses fire rituals as the unifying structure in time and space in Indo-European cultures from the Bronze Age onwards. It asks the question how and why was fire the ultimate power in culture and cosmology? Fire as an agent and divinity was fundamental in all major sacrifices. In Europe, ritual fires in relation to agriculture and fertility may also explain the enigma of cremation. Cremated remains were ground and used in fertility rituals, and ancestral fires played an essential role in metallurgy and the creation of cosmos. Thus, the role of fire rituals in culture and cosmology enables a unique understanding of historic developmental processes. For students and academics studying Indo-European culture history from the Bronze Age onwards, this book has a broad interdisciplinary audience including archaeology, ethnography, folklore, religious and Indo-European studies.
Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 36
Author: Dr. G.P. Bhatt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 812083903X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1207
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 812083903X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 1207
Book Description
Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India
Author:
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9394701346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9394701346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.
Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 47
Author: Dr. G.P. Bhatt
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120839145
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 3276
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120839145
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 3276
Book Description
The Divine Consort
Author: John Stratton Hawley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895814418
Category : Goddesses, Hindu
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Papers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780895814418
Category : Goddesses, Hindu
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Papers presented at a conference held June 1978 at Harvard University, sponsored by the Center for the Study of World Religions.
A Celebration of Love
Author: Harsha V. Dehejia
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9788174363022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Takes us to the Nayika in the Indian tradition, one who is paradigm of mankind's perennial quest for a divine and transcendental love.
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN: 9788174363022
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Takes us to the Nayika in the Indian tradition, one who is paradigm of mankind's perennial quest for a divine and transcendental love.
Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology;
Author: Jagdish Lal Shastri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Hindu mythological texts.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Hindu mythological texts.
Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 21
Author: J. L. Shastri
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120838882
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120838882
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description