IAVRI Bulletin

IAVRI Bulletin PDF Author: International Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute
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Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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IAVRI Bulletin

IAVRI Bulletin PDF Author: International Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts
Languages : en
Pages : 618

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Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter

Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter PDF Author:
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
ISBN:
Category : Acquisition of foreign publications
Languages : en
Pages : 100

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According to Tradition

According to Tradition PDF Author: Winand M. Callewaert
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447035248
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The Eternal Food

The Eternal Food PDF Author: R. S. Khare
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791410585
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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An interdisciplinary study of the cultural meaning and uses of food in India and Sri Lanka, drawing on the abundant commentary by saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine, in both religious and literary contexts. The eight papers, some from a January 1985 conference, Food Systems and Communications Structures, in Mysore, India, focus on the long-term, wide spread significance of food, rather than on caste differences, changing diets, or a comparison between Hindu and Buddhist approaches. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Padāvalī

Padāvalī PDF Author: Nāmadeva
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789068311075
Category : Hindi poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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The Hagiographies of Anantadas

The Hagiographies of Anantadas PDF Author: Winnand Callewaert
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136120025
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Anantadas is the first 'biographer' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian interests appropriated certain poets and changed their 'biographies' accordingly.

Words and Deeds

Words and Deeds PDF Author: Jörg Gengnagel
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447051521
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Words and Deeds is a collection of articles on rituals in South Asia with a special focus on their texts and context. The volume presupposes that a comprehensive definition of "ritual" does not exist. Instead, the papers in it avoid essentialist definitions, allowing for a possible polythetic definition of the concept to emerge. Papers in this volume include those on Initiation, Pre-Natal Rites, Religious Processions, Royal Consecration, Rituals which mark the commencement of ritual, Rituals of devotion and Vedic sacrifice as well as contributions which address the broader theoretical issues of engaging in the study of ritual texts and ritual practice, both from the etic and the emic perspective. These studies show that any study of the relationship between the text and the context of rituals must also allow for the possibility that different categories of performers can and do subjectively constitute the relationship between their ritual knowledge and ritual practice, between text and context in differing and nuanced ways.

Institutions and Ideologies

Institutions and Ideologies PDF Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136102345
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.

Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

Religious Cultures in Early Modern India PDF Author: Rosalind O'Hanlon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317982878
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293

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Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of the state. Royal and merchant patronage stimulated the growth of new classes of mobile intellectuals deeply committed to the reappraisal of many aspects of religious law and doctrine. Supra-regional institutions and networks of many other kinds - sect-based religious maths, pilgrimage centres and their guardians, sants and sufi orders - flourished, offering greater mobility to wider communities of the pious. This was also a period of growing vigour in the development of vernacular religious literatures of different kinds, and often of new genres blending elements of older devotional, juridical and historical literatures. Oral and manuscript literatures too gained more rapid circulation, although the meaning and canonical status of texts frequently changed as they circulated more widely and reached larger lay audiences. Through explorations of these developments, the essays in this collection make a distinctive contribution to a critical formative period in the making of India’s modern religious cultures. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.

Archaeological Sites

Archaeological Sites PDF Author: Gilbert Pollet
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789068312591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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This second volume of the Corpus Topographicum Indiae Antiquae is the result of an analysis of the available archaeological sources, the identification of problematic place names, the location of c. 10300 archaeological sites, and their indication on a map. The work constitutes, therefore, a general synthesis of the actual knowledge in the field of Indian archaeology and can serve as a basis for further research. The atlas, and the indices, which mention old and modern variant forms of the place names, form an indispensable research and work tool for various branches of Asiatic studies, in particular those dealing with the Indian subcontinent and South Asia: archaeology, numismatics, art history, historical geography, toponomy, philology.