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

Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691173915
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Mahābhārata, a Study of the Critical Edition

Author : Mahesh M. Mehta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Mahābhārata, a Study of the Critical Edition written by Mahesh M. Mehta and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essays on the Mahābhārata

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120827387
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (273 download)

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Download or read book Essays on the Mahābhārata written by Arvind Sharma and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2007 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saiva Philosophy is an outgrowth of the religion characterized by the worship of the phallic form of God siva. Saivasm as a religion has persisted since the pre-historic time of the archaeological finds of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. It has a continuous history of at least five thousand years. It is a living faith praciced all over India. AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF SAIVA PHILOSOPHY first appeared as part of Volume III of Bhaskari in 1954 in the Princess of Wales Saraswati Bhavan Texts Series. The work is now reprinted as an independent volume to meet an increasing demand of the interested readers and scholars.

The Difficulty of Being Good

Author : Gurcharan Das
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199779600
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Difficulty of Being Good written by Gurcharan Das and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should we be good? How should we be good? And how might we more deeply understand the moral and ethical failings--splashed across today's headlines--that have not only destroyed individual lives but caused widespread calamity as well, bringing communities, nations, and indeed the global economy to the brink of collapse? In The Difficulty of Being Good, Gurcharan Das seeks answers to these questions in an unlikely source: the 2,000 year-old Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata. A sprawling, witty, ironic, and delightful poem, the Mahabharata is obsessed with the elusive notion of dharma--in essence, doing the right thing. When a hero does something wrong in a Greek epic, he wastes little time on self-reflection; when a hero falters in the Mahabharata, the action stops and everyone weighs in with a different and often contradictory take on dharma. Each major character in the epic embodies a significant moral failing or virtue, and their struggles mirror with uncanny precision our own familiar emotions of anxiety, courage, despair, remorse, envy, compassion, vengefulness, and duty. Das explores the Mahabharata from many perspectives and compares the successes and failures of the poem's characters to those of contemporary individuals, many of them highly visible players in the world of economics, business, and politics. In every case, he finds striking parallels that carry lessons for everyone faced with ethical and moral dilemmas in today's complex world. Written with the flair and seemingly effortless erudition that have made Gurcharan Das a bestselling author around the world--and enlivened by Das's forthright discussion of his own personal search for a more meaningful life--The Difficulty of Being Good shines the light of an ancient poem on the most challenging moral ambiguities of modern life.

Elements of Poetry in the Mahābhārata

Author : Rāmakaraṇa Śarmā
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120805446
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Elements of Poetry in the Mahābhārata written by Rāmakaraṇa Śarmā and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 1988 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents the first attempt of its kind to present a detailed, systematic analysis of the upamana dharmas (Tertia comparationis) of the various objects of comparison found in the Mahabharata. An attempt is made here to present a detailed account of what we may call poetic expressions of the corpus. It is not a rhetorical discussion of the soul of the poetry of the Mahabharata. It rather aims at enumerating the symbolic, alliterative, paronomastic, or repetitive linguistic features that beautify the body of the Mahabharata. Chapter 1 deals with the similes (upama) of the corpus; the arrangement of the sections is based on the fields from which the objects of comparison (upamana) are collected. Chapters 2 throught 8 deal with the metaphors. Chapter 9 presents some specimens of popular idioms found in the corpus, arranged again according to the fields from which they are collected. Chapter 10 is the compilation of the passages representing typical figures of sound (sabdalamkaras). To complete the study, Chapter 11 analyzes passages representing the techniques of oral poetry.

Re-ending the Mahābhārata

Author : Naama Shalom
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438465033
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Re-ending the Mahābhārata written by Naama Shalom and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges two prevalent assumptions about the Mahābhārata: that its narrative is inherently incapable of achieving a conclusion and that its ending, the Svargārohaṇa parva, is an extraneous part of the text. While the exegetic traditions have largely tended to suppress, ignore, or overlook the importance of this final section, Shalom argues that the moment of the condemnation of dharma that occurs in the Svargārohaṇa parva, expressed by the epic protagonist, Yudhiṣṭhira, against his father, Dharma, is of crucial importance. It sheds light on the incessant preoccupation and intrinsic dismay towards the concept of dharma (the cardinal theme around which the epic revolves) expressed by Mahābhārata narrators throughout the epic, and is thus highly significant for understanding the Mahābhārata narrative as a whole.

Mahabharata Now

Author : Arindam Chakrabarti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317342143
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Mahabharata Now written by Arindam Chakrabarti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the ‘timeless’ classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science; and the contemporary social, ethical and political concerns. The essays are all united in their effort to situate the Mahabharata in the context of here and now without violating the sanctity of the ‘written text’ as we have it today. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Indian and comparative philosophy, Indian and comparative literature, cultural studies, and history.

The Roots of the Bhagavadgita Volume II

Author : Gerard DC Kuiken
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 907862308X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Roots of the Bhagavadgita Volume II written by Gerard DC Kuiken and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Svabhavikasutra is the original text on which the Bhagavadgita has been interpolated. The additions include reference to caste and the system of four classes, with a religious devotion to the god Krishna, and a war as background. The roots of the Bhagavadgita, the Svabhavikasutra, focuses on a deep spiritual philosophy, without a reference to a caste system, or to Arjuna or Krishna, or to a war.

Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahābhārata

Author : Julian F. Woods
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791490580
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahābhārata written by Julian F. Woods and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-04-19 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata explores this epic's ongoing polemic regarding free will in the face of destiny. While the belief that human history is governed exclusively by external forces is evident in the Mahabharata, the epic also contains the commanding message of Kr's'n'a that the lives of individuals and societies may, and should indeed, be changed for the better through human initiative. Woods maintains that the resolution of this conundrum emerges from the epic's view of what it is to be a human being. We may harbor ideas about our self-determination and freedom, but the epic reveals that we are not at all free but trapped in a vicious cycle of birth and death that can be broken only when we realize that our precious ego-self with its sense of agency is a mental fiction. The Mahabharata admits to a modicum of freedom in everyday life which, from a higher perspective, is nothing but destiny in disguise.

Translation and State

Author : Michael Willis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311050152X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Translation and State written by Michael Willis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1587, Abū al-Faz̤l ibn Mubārak – a favourite at the Mughal court and author of the Akbarnāmah – completed his Preface to the Persian translation of the Mahābhārata. This book is the first detailed study of Abū al-Faz̤l's Preface. It offers insights into manuscript practices at the Mughal court, the role a Persian version of the Mahābhārata was meant to play, and the religious interactions that characterised 16th-century India.

Rāsalīlā

Author : Selina Thielemann
Publisher : APH Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9788170248644
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Rāsalīlā written by Selina Thielemann and published by APH Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Comprehensive Account Of The Musical Elements Of Rasalila, Focuses As An Indepth Analysis Of The Rasalila Performance. An Extensive Photographic Documentations Displayed On 58 Colour Plates Concerns Its Preparations, Musical Instruments And Scans And Their Various Aspects.

The Mahābhārata

Author : J. Bruce Long
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Mahābhārata written by J. Bruce Long and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arjuna in the Mahabharata

Author : Ruth Cecily Katz
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120807448
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Arjuna in the Mahabharata written by Ruth Cecily Katz and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a work of unusual breadth and depth that will attract readers in religious studies, comparative literature, Sanskrit, Asian studies and humanities in general. The book is a thorough study of the great Indian hero, the Achilles of India, Arjuna, as portrayed in the epic poem Mahabharata, including its world-famous subsection, the Bhagavadgita. Different aspects of Arjuna's Character has been discussed.

The Nāradasmṛti

Author : Nārada
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120818040
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Nāradasmṛti written by Nārada and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884551
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume I written by and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of seven volumes of a translation of the Valmiki Ramayana, the great Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Visnu. This renowned work of ancient India has profoundly affected the literature, art, religions, and cultures of countless millions of people in South and Southeast Asiaan influence that is perhaps unparalleled in the history of world literature. Balakanda, the opening portion of this first translation to be based on the critical edition (Oriental Institute, Baroda), is presented here in a compact volume without the section of notes that appears in the hardcover book.

The Sanskrit Epics

Author : John Brockington
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004492674
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Sanskrit Epics written by John Brockington and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mahābhārata (including Harivaṃśa) and Rāmāyaṇa, the two great Sanskrit Epics central to the whole of Indian Culture, form the subject of this new work. The book begins by examining the relationship of the epics to the Vedas and the role of the bards who produced them. The core of the work, a study of the linguistic and stylistic features of the epics, precedes the examination of the material culture, the social, economic and political aspects, and the religious aspects. The final chapter presents the wider picture and in conclusion even looks into the future of epic studies. In this long overdue survey work the author synthesizes the results of previous scholarship in the field. Herewith a coherent view is built up of the nature and the significance of these two central epics, both in themselves, and in relation to Indian culture as a whole.

The Ritual of Battle

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120840348
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book The Ritual of Battle written by Alf Hiltebeitel and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of India's great epic, the Mahabharata, against the background of Indo-European myth, epic and ritual. It builds upon the pioneering studies in these areas by Georges Dumezil and Stig Wikander to work toward the goal of understanding how this epic's Indo-European heritage is interpreted and reshaped within the setting of bhakti or devotional Hinduism. The book begins with a comparative typology of traditional classical epics, arguing that epic is a distinctive mythical genre, and that the Mahrib/grata in particular should be studied as part of an Indo-European epic (and not just mythical) continuum. The reshaping of Indo-European themes is then examined in relation to the Mahabharata's central mystery: the figure of Krishna, hero and ally of the Pandava brothers in their struggles against their cousins, the Kauravas, and incarnation of Visnu. The study argues that Krishna figures in the epic at the center of a coherent theological ensemble that builds upon continuities in Indo-European, Vedic and particularly Brahmanic sacrificial idioms. Ultimately, Krishna guides the forces of dharma or righteousness through a great "sacrifice of battle" whose eschatological background recalls Indo-European and Vedic themes, while projecting them into the Hindu bhakti cosmology of universal dissolution, recreations and divine grace. The study vigorously opposes attempts to "explain" Krishna by arbitrary theories of the Maluibhdrata's growth through interpolations.