The Journal of Oriental Research, Madras

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Category : Indo-Aryan philology
Languages : en
Pages : 1416

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The Journal of Oriental Research, Madras

The Journal of Oriental Research, Madras PDF Author:
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Category : Indo-Aryan philology
Languages : en
Pages : 1416

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The Journal of Oriental Research

The Journal of Oriental Research PDF Author:
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Category : Indo-Aryan philology
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V PDF Author:
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691173915
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 601

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The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda, recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across the ocean to the island citadel of Lanka. Once there, he scours the city for the abducted Princess Sita. The poet vividly describes the opulence of the court of the demon king, Ravana, the beauty of his harem, and the hideous deformity of Sita's wardresses. After witnessing Sita's stern rejection of Ravana's blandishments, Hanuman reveals himself to the princess and restores her hope of rescue. The great monkey then wreaks havoc on the royal park and fights a series of hair-raising battles with Ravana's generals. Permitting himself to be captured by the warrior Indrajit, Hanuman is led into the presence of Ravana, whom he admonishes for his lechery. His tail is set ablaze, but he escapes his bonds and leaping from rooftop to rooftop, sets fire to the city. Taking leave of Sita, Hanuman once more leaps the ocean to rejoin his monkey companions. This is the fifth volume translated from the critical edition of the Valmiki Ramayana. It contains an extensive introduction, exhaustive notes, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Śāstrārambha

Śāstrārambha PDF Author: Walter Slaje
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447056458
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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The present volume contains a collection of 10 articles read to the audience of a topic-related panel at the 13th World Sanskrit Conference, held in Edinburgh in July 2006. The papers focus on a variety of aspects of prolegomena composed in Sanskrit by examining them in their different systemic and systematic contexts. Extending beyond sastra in its narrower sense as bodies of (philosophical) knowledge, some of the investigations assembled here concern themselves with preambles to different categories such as Vedic exegesis, poetics, poetry and historiography. From the table of contents: (10 contributions) Edwin Gerow, En archei en ho logos - "In the Beginning was the Word". Chr. Minkowski, Why should we read the Mangala-Verses? P. Balcerowicz, Some Remarks on the Opening Sections in Buddhist and Jaina Epistemological Treatises. Jan E. M. Houben, Doxographic Introductions to the Philosophical Systems: Mallavadin and the Grammarians. Ph. Maas, "Descent with Modification": The Opening of the Patanjalayogasastra. Silvia D'Intino, Meaningful Mantras. The Introductory Portion of the Rgvedabhasya by Skandasvamin.

The Kautilīya Arthaśāstra

The Kautilīya Arthaśāstra PDF Author: Kautalya
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120800427
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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paper, clear printing, binding that is designed to last, a stunning dust

Journal

Journal PDF Author: Bombay Historical Society
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784

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Vālmīki's Sanskrit

Vālmīki's Sanskrit PDF Author: L a Van Daalen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004645640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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Tamil

Tamil PDF Author: David Shulman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674974654
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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Spoken by eighty million people in South Asia and a diaspora that stretches across the globe, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother tongue for so many speakers. David Shulman presents a comprehensive cultural history of Tamil—language, literature, and civilization—emphasizing how Tamil speakers and poets have understood the unique features of their language over its long history. Impetuous, musical, whimsical, in constant flux, Tamil is a living entity, and this is its biography. Two stories animate Shulman’s narrative. The first concerns the evolution of Tamil’s distinctive modes of speaking, thinking, and singing. The second describes Tamil’s major expressive themes, the stunning poems of love and war known as Sangam poetry, and Tamil’s influence as a shaping force within Hinduism. Shulman tracks Tamil from its earliest traces at the end of the first millennium BCE through the classical period, 850 to 1200 CE, when Tamil-speaking rulers held sway over southern India, and into late-medieval and modern times, including the deeply contentious politics that overshadow Tamil today. Tamil is more than a language, Shulman says. It is a body of knowledge, much of it intrinsic to an ancient culture and sensibility. “Tamil” can mean both “knowing how to love”—in the manner of classical love poetry—and “being a civilized person.” It is thus a kind of grammar, not merely of the language in its spoken and written forms but of the creative potential of its speakers.

Movement and Mimesis

Movement and Mimesis PDF Author: Mandakranta Bose
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401135940
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 343

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The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. These texts are the basic material that students of the dance in India must examine in order to uncover its past. Since the rebirth of informed interest in dancing in early twentieth century, its antiquity has been acknowledged but precisely what the art was in antiquity remains unclear. Discovering the oldest forms of dancing in India requires, as do other historical quests, a reconstruction of the past and, again as in other historical investigations, the primary sources of knowledge are records from the past. In this case the records are treatises and manuals in Sanskrit that discuss and describe dancing. These are the sources that the present work sets out to mine. These texts taken collectively are more than records of a particular state of the art. They testify to the growth of the theory and practice of the art and thus establish it as an evolving rather than a fixed art form that changed as much in response to its own expanding aesthetic boundaries as to parallel or complementary forms of dance, drama and music that impinged upon it as India's social and political situation changed. When we place the Sanskrit treatises in chronological sequence it becomes clear that the understanding of the art has changed through time, in its infancy as well as in maturer periods.

Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics

Tamil Love Poetry and Poetics PDF Author: Takanobu Takahashi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004658602
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 271

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This indispensable work for Tamil love poetry of South India deals with the relationship between the oldest grammar and poetics, Tolkāppiyam, and the ancient literature (Sangam literature) of the 1-3 C. A.D., providing the original meanings and historical changes of many technical terms of love poetry.