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Author: D. N. Jha
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 178960933X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 191
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Hugely controversial upon its publication in India, this book has already been banned by the Hyderabad Civil Court and the author's life has been threatened. Jha argues against the historical sanctity of the cow in India, in an illuminating response to the prevailing attitudes about beef that have been fiercely supported by the current Hindu right-wing government and the fundamentalist groups backing it.
Author: M. Nagatomi
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400989415
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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From the Subhdsitaratnakosa, Verse No. 1729: vahati na pural) kascit pasclill na ko 'py anuyati mam na ca navapadak~ul)l)o marga!) katham nv aham ekaka!) bhavatu viditam purvavyu.
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 0192838822
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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"The law codes of ancient India"--Cover.
Author: Antonio Rigopoulos
Publisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438417330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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This book presents the multi-faceted Hindu deity Dattatreya from his Puranic emergence up to modern times. Dattatreya's Brahmanical portrayal, as well as his even more archaic characterization as a Tantric antinomian figure, combines both Vaisnava Saiva motifs. Over the course of time, Dattatreya has come to embody the roles of the immortal guru, yogin and avatara in a paradigmatic manner. From the sixteenth century Dattatreya's glorious characterization emerged as the incarnation of the trimurti of Brahma, Visnu, and Siva. Although Maharastra is the heartland of Dattatreya devotion, his presence is attested to throughout India and extends beyond the boundaries of Hinduism, being met with in Sufi circles and even in Buddhism and Jainism via Nathism. The scarce attention which most Western scholars of Indian religions have paid to this deity contrasts with its ubiquitousness and social permeability. Devotion to Dattatreya cuts through all social and religious strata of Indian society: among his adepts we find yogis, Brahmans, faqirs, Devi worshippers, untouchables, thieves, and prostitutes. This book explores all primary religious dimensions: myth, doctrine, ritual, philosophy, mysticism, and iconography. The comprehensive result offers a rich fresco of Hindu religion as well as an understanding of Marathi integrative spirituality: precisely this complexity of themes constitutes Dattatreya's uniqueness.
Author: Vincenzo Vergiani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110543109
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 801
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This collection of essays explores the history of the book in pre-modern South Asia looking at the production, circulation, fruition and preservation of manuscripts in different areas and across time. Edited by the team of the Cambridge-based Sanskrit Manuscripts Project and including contributions of the researchers who collaborated with it, it covers a wide range of topics related to South Asian manuscript culture: from the material dimension (palaeography, layout, decoration) and the complicated interactions of manuscripts with printing in late medieval Tibet and in modern Tamil Nadu, to reading, writing, editing and educational practices, from manuscripts as sources for the study of religious, literary and intellectual traditions, to the creation of collections in medieval India and Cambodia (one major centre of the so-called Sanskrit cosmopolis), and the formation of the Cambridge collections in the colonial period. The contributions reflect the variety of idioms, literary genres, religious movements, and social actors (intellectuals, scribes, patrons) of ancient South Asia, as well as the variety of approaches, interests and specialisms of the authors, and their impassionate engagement with manuscripts.
Author: C. Pieruccini
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788867055432
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Author: Sures Chandra Banerji
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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This Work Highlights The Dharmasastra Essentials By Listing The Major Authors With Their Biographies, Titles And Their Dates Of Composition, Published Editions And Commentaries. It Shows How Dharmasastra Works Have Influenced The Indian Way Of Life.
Author: Axel Michaels
Publisher: Manohar Publishers
ISBN: 9788173044359
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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In a traditional sense, the Indian institution of the "pandit" denoted an individual that was a scholar, teacher, adviser, spiritual adviser, specialist, and legal expert says Michaels (classical Indology, U. of Heidelberg, Germany). He presents 13 essays that are at once an examination of the role of the pandit in current Sanskrit scholarship and a festschrift to one particular pandit, K. Parameswara Aithal. The essays explore the nature of being a pandit, examine conflicts between western methods of scholarship and the pandit's approach to the acquisition and preservation of knowledge, and provide profile of past and present pandits. Distributed by South Asia Books. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Bhartrhari
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120806429
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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Epigrams on conduct and renunciation.
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN: 8120829700
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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The Dharmasutra Parallels present in a synoptic layout of the passages in the four Dharmasutras of Apastamba. Gautama, Baudhayana, and Vasistha deal with identical topics. The Dharmasutras represent the oldest extant codification of Law in ancient India. A close study of these early legal treatises is essential if we are to understand not only the legal but also the cultural and religious history of the three or four centuries prior to the common era, a period that saw the beginnings of many of the features that we commonly associate with Indian civilization.
Author: Nārada
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120818040
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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This fascinating and profound book of ancient, Eastern esoteric wisdom backed by the latest discoveries and experiments of modern science treats of the health of soul by showing the relationship between soul and brain.This book is a cybernetic exploration of mind`s inner space leading to expanded cosmoelectronic consciousness. Having shown the differences between Eastern and Western thought-processes, Saher explains how the sages of the East have aquired that source of wisdom and bliss which our misguided youth seeks vainly in hallucinogenic drugs.
