Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter

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

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Foreign Acquisitions Newsletter

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

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TULIP

TULIP PDF Author: Murari Lal Nagar
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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The Poetics of Devotion

The Poetics of Devotion PDF Author: Rachel Dwyer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780700712335
Category : Gujarati literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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This text introduces a major poet scarcely known to scholars outside Gujarat in India: Kavi Dayarambhai (1777-1852), and analyses the poet's place in the history of Indian literature.

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles PDF Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1760

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Subject Catalog

Subject Catalog PDF Author: Library of Congress
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1016

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An Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes

An Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes PDF Author: Heinrich von Stietencron
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447030281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1116

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The Building of Vṛndāvana

The Building of Vṛndāvana PDF Author: Kiyokazu Okita
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004686770
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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The small town of Vṛndāvana is today one of the most vibrant places of pilgrimage in northern India. Throngs of pilgrims travel there each year to honour the sacred land of Kṛṣṇa’s youth and to visit many of its temples. The Building of Vṛndāvana explores the complex history of this town’s early modern origins. Bringing together scholars from various disciplines to examine history, architecture, art, ritual, theology, and literature in this pivotal period, the book examines how these various disciplines were used to create, develop, and map Vṛndāvana as the most prominent place of pilgrimage for devotees of Kṛṣṇa. Contributors are: Guy L. Beck, Måns Broo, David Buchta, John Stratton Hawley, Barbara A. Holdrege, Rembert Lutjeharms, Cynthia D. Packert, and Heidi Pauwels.

Bhakti and Embodiment

Bhakti and Embodiment PDF Author: Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317669096
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.

The Devotional Poetry of Svāmī Haridās

The Devotional Poetry of Svāmī Haridās PDF Author: Lucy L. Rosenstein
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004646655
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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The 16th-century North Indian religious devotee, poet and musician, Svāmī Haridās, composed lyrics in Braj Bhāṣā, dedicated to the divine couple Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa. One hundred twenty-eight of them were later compiled in two anthologies: the didactic Aṣṭādaś siddhānta and the rapturous Kelimāl, and became the theological basis of the Haridāsī sampradāya, a sect which still flourishes in Vrindaban, U.P. Neither of these important works has hitherto been edited, properly translated or studied academically. The focus of this book is the text of Haridās’s poetry: its transmission, edition and interpretation. Sixteen 18th-19th century manuscripts are collated for the edition and classified with the help of computer programmes originally employed in taxonomy. The apparatus criticus is followed by an annotated English translation in which readings are assessed and points of linguistic interest discussed. The language of Haridās’s text is thoroughly examined, and a comprehensive etymological glossary is included to enhance our knowledge of Braj. Going beyond textual criticism, the book sets Haridās’s verses in a broader context. The introductory chapter discusses the theological views of the Haridāsī tradition against the background of bhakti, analyses the sources of information about Haridās, and attempts to reconstruct his life. Since Haridās’s lyrics were composed to be sung some of their musical features are analysed. The text of the Kelimāl is also examined through the sectarian concerns of its main commentaries. This study will be an important source of information to all scholars of Braj language and Kṛṣṇa devotionalism.

The Eighty-four Hymns of Hita Harivaṃśa

The Eighty-four Hymns of Hita Harivaṃśa PDF Author: Hita Harivaṃśa Gosvāmī
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120806290
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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The CAurasi Pada (Eighty-four Hymns) is a sixteenth-century anthology of devotional Braj Bhasa verses ascribed to Hita Harivamsa, a devotee of Radha. With the delicacy of their language and the intensity of their sentiments, these poems recreate the bucolic world of Jayadeva; and their devotional content gives them an unrivalled place in the history of Vaisnava devotional literature. The text, which comprises the theological basis of the Radhavallabha sampradaya, appears here for the first time in a critical edition and is accompanied by a fully annotated rendering in English. The study which follows the text examines its language and prosody, with particular reference to the musical talas in which it is sung in the contemporary tradition of the Radhavallabhi hymnal; and a further section traces the processes by which the text has been transmitted by sectarian tradition over the centuries.