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Author : Dr. G.P. Bhatt
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120839099
Total Pages : 1563 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 42 written by Dr. G.P. Bhatt and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 1563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ron Geaves
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Saivism in the Diaspora written by Ron Geaves and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2007 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book will explore contemporary manifestations of the worship of Siva that have transmigrated to the West. It explores Hindu vernacular traditions or 'village Hinduism' especially in the context of the Hindu diaspora, where the general assumption is that such forms of Hinduism cannot survive as they lack the infrastructure and the rural environment. Based on extensive fieldwork in Britain and India, the author shows that significant developments are taking place where Hindu communities have achieved sufficient concentration for various movements to appear that reproduce 'folk traditions' connected to a particular locale in the subcontinent. These movements often display a focus on the pragmatic or apotropaic motivation for worship of deities associated with healing. The focus is on the Baba Balaknath communities originating in the Punjab and Himachal Pradesh; the worship of Murugan amongst Tamil populations and the Community of the Many Names of God in Wales which originated in the worship of Subramaniyam in Shri Lanka. The book will not only throw some clarity on changing beliefs and practices in the Hindu diaspora, particularly the role of the apotropaic or pragmatic dimension, it will also help to understand important theoretical concepts such as Sanskritisation and the relationship between the 'Little Tradition' and the 'Great Tradition' or All-India and local traditions.
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838874
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 20 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838890
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 22 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838815
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Garuda Purana Part 3 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Raj Balkaran
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760465909
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative written by Raj Balkaran and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-21 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and practice. This volume brings together eighteen of the foremost scholars across the globe, who, in an unprecedented collaboration, accord these texts the integrity and dignity they deserve. The last time this was attempted, on a much smaller scale, was a generation ago, with Purāṇa Perennis (1993). The pre-eminent contributors to this landmark collection use novel methods and theory to meaningfully engage Sanskrit narrative texts, showcasing the state of contemporary scholarship on the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas.
Author : Anders Kaliff
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000822877
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Indo-European Fire Rituals written by Anders Kaliff and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838998
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 32 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838882
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 21 written by J. L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004216200
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Reading the Fifth Veda written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often spoken of as the 'Fifth Veda', i.e., as a text in continuity with the four Vedas and outweighing them all in size and import, the Mahābhārata presents a complex mythological and narrative landscape, incorporating fundamental ethical, social, philosophic, and pedagogic issues. In a series of position pieces and essays written over a span of 30 years, Alf Hiltebeitel, Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences at The George Washington University, articulates a compelling new approach to the epic: as a literary work of fundamental theological and philosophical significance rich in metaphor and meaning. In this three-part volume, the editors gather some of Hiltebeitel’s seminal writings on the epic along with new pieces written especially for the volume. This two volume edition collects nearly three decades of Alf Hiltebeitel’s researches into the Indian epic and religious tradition. The two volumes document Hiltebeitel’s longstanding fascination with the Sanskrit epics: volume 1 presents a series of appreciative readings of the Mahābhārata (and to a lesser extent, the Rāmāyaṇa), while volume 2 focuses on what Hiltebeitel has called “the underground Mahābhārata,” i.e., the Mahābhārata as it is still alive in folk and vernacular traditions. Recently re-edited and with a new set of articles completing a trajectory Hiltebeitel established over 30 years ago, this work constitutes a definitive statement from this major scholar. Comprehensive indices, cross-referencing, and an exhaustive bibliography make it an essential reference work. For more information on the second volume please click here.
Author : J. L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838785
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Bhagavata Purana Part 5 written by J. L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. G.P. Bhatt
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838971
Total Pages : 1183 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 30 written by Dr. G.P. Bhatt and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 1183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Accessions List, South Asia written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, New Delhi and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records publications acquired from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, by the U.S. Library of Congress Offices in New Delhi, India, and Karachi, Pakistan.
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838912
Total Pages : 953 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology Volume 24 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 953 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9394701346
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : G. P. Bhatt
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120809661
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Skanda Purana Part 1 written by G. P. Bhatt and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838777
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Bhagavata-Purana Part 4 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purana is a class of literature that treats ancient religion, philosophy, history, sociology, politics and other subjects. It is an Encyclopaedia of various branches of knowledge and ancient wisdom. It has been defined as a class of literature that contains material on the topics of Creation, Dissolution of Manus, Ages of Manus, Genealogies and the History of glorious kings. For dealing primarily with these subjects it has been called Pancalaksana a little that was incorporated in the Puranas themselves and had become popular by the Fifth Century A.D., for it was included by Amarasimha in his lexicon 'Amarakosa'. But as the process of interpolation continued, the Pancalaksana definition was found inadequate. The Puranic redactors adopted a Dasalaksana definition that suited the contemporary text. Still, the dynamic forces were at work and the process of insertion, modification and abridgement went on and it was soon discovered that the Dasalaksana definition too fell short of an actual fact. It was found that the Puranas contained certain aspects that were not covered by any of the five or ten characteristics. Besides some of the characteristics covered by the Pancalaksana or Dasalaksana definition were not found in certain Puranas. In fact, the Purana as a class represents the different phases and aspects of the life of diverse ages. It is impossible to adopt a standard definition for the class of literary composition that contains heterogeneous phases and aspects. Moreover, a definition framed on the numerical basis of points is bound to be imperfect. The Puranas are divided into two classes the Mahapuranas and the Upapuranas. Each class consists of eighteen Puranas. Thus the number of the Puranas is thirty-six.
