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Author : H. C. Das
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sakta Pithas written by H. C. Das and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On pilgrims of Shaktism and cult of Śakti, Hindu deity in Orissa, India.
Author : Dineschandra Sircar
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120808799
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Śākta Pīṭhas written by Dineschandra Sircar and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1973 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The holy places associated with the Mother Goddess and spread over various parts of the indian subcontinent have been popular pilgrim spots for a long time. According to some late Tantric texts ascribable to Eastern India, the number of such Sakta-Tirthas is fifty-one and the present monograph is a dissertation on the origin and development of this conception. Thus it is at the same time the study of a number of Tantric and other texts as well as of certain problems of Tantric religion and of historical geography. It is unique in its approach because Tantra Studies have not progressed satisfactorily so far on scientific lines.
Author : Dines Chandra Sircar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Sakta Pithas written by Dines Chandra Sircar and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dinesh-Candra Sircar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780842605908
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Śākta Pīṭhas written by Dinesh-Candra Sircar and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. P. Singh
Publisher : Gyan Publishing House
ISBN 13 : 9788121202817
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Researches Into the History and Civilization of the Kirātas written by G. P. Singh and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The kiratas janapadas, kingdoms, principalities, urban culture, subjugation by the contemporary rulers, dynastic rule in northern India and Nepal, based on a large number of rare sources have received extensive and deep attention in a subtle and penetrating way. The author has brought to light several valuable facets relating. The work is based on interdisciplinary research. The author has critically examined the relevance of historical, anthropological and linguistic data. The work is of immense academic value not only for historians but also for anthropologists and linguists.
Author : Lynn Foulston
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782847200
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Hindu Goddesses written by Lynn Foulston and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the diversity of Hindu goddesses and the variety of ways in which they are worshipped. Although they undoubtedly have ancient origins, Hindu goddesses and their worship is still very much a part of the fabric of religious engagement in India today. This book offers an introduction to a complex and often baffling field of study.
Author : Tony Carnes
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081471630X
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Asian American Religions written by Tony Carnes and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Redraws old definitions of what it means to be religious and Asian American.
Author : Catherine Weinberger-Thomas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226885681
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Ashes of Immortality written by Catherine Weinberger-Thomas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At last, she arrives at the fatal end of the plank . . . and, with her hands crossed over her chest, falls straight downward, suspended for a moment in the air before being devoured by the burning pit that awaits her. . . ." This grisly 1829 account by Pierre Dubois demonstrates the usual European response to the Hindu custom of satis sacrificing themselves on the funeral pyres of their husbands—horror and revulsion. Yet to those of the Hindu faith, not least the satis themselves, this act signals the sati's sacredness and spiritual power. Ashes of Immortality attempts to see the satis through Hindu eyes, providing an extensive experiential and psychoanalytic account of ritual self-sacrifice and self-mutilation in South Asia. Based on fifteen years of fieldwork in northern India, where the state-banned practice of sati reemerged in the 1970s, as well as extensive textual analysis, Weinberger-Thomas constructs a radically new interpretation of satis. She shows that their self-immolation transcends gender, caste and class, region and history, representing for the Hindus a path to immortality.
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN 13 : 9788120820418
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Encountering Kali written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishe. This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encountering Kali explores one of the most ramarkable divinities the world has seen. The Hindu goddess Kali is simultaneously understood as a blood thirsty warrior a deity of ritual possession a tantric sexual partner and an all loving compassionate mothe. Popular and scholarly interest in her has been on the rise in the west in recent years. Responding to this phenomenon McDermott and Kripal`s volume focuses on the complexities involved in interpreting Kali in both her indigenous south Asian settings and her more recent Western incarnation. Through the shifting lenses of scriptural history temple architecture political reflection and the goddess`s recent guises on the Internet the contributors pose questions that illuminate our understanding of Kali while addressing the problems and promises inherent in every act of cross cultural interpretation.
Author : Dineschandra Sircar
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120806900
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India written by Dineschandra Sircar and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing the radiant face of Ma Anandamayi and hearing her laughter you guess that she is an incarnation of Joy. Touched by the caress of Her glance you know that her heart is overflowing with love for all beings. Listening to Her teaching so simple and clear you understand that She is in possession of all Wisdom. But one cannot say whether it is Joy, Love or Wisdom that is the source of all this for with Her all therr are inextricably and indissolubly mingled one coluld not exist without the others. The joy which Ma anandmayi lives is not that which we know in worldly life, where pleasure and pain, hope, regret and disillusionment, attraction and repulsion follow on each other's heels, born one of another. Nor is it an egocentric calm of stoic rigidity that erects around itself an rampart of indifference. Hers is an overflowing, irrepressible joy that expresses itself in gaiety, that knows no obstacles, because it is deeply rooted in the Absolute, beyond the dualities of good and evil, of 'I' and 'not-I', of pleasant and unpleasant, because its unshakable base is Love and Wisdom.
Author : Ramendra Nath Nandi
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120830865
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Religious Institutions and Cults in the Deccan: A.D. 600-A.D. 1000 written by Ramendra Nath Nandi and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1973-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present book draws attention to the institutional basis of medieval sectarianism and shows that the temples and monasteries became, in the hands of a powerful priesthood, effective means of religious control and publicity. It highlights the increasing patronage extended by heterogeneous social ranks including the landed gentry, moneyed bureaucrats and traders to these institutions. This changed them into big employers and encouraged the growth of feudal ties and manorial interests which the priest of a temple or the superior of a monastery tried to preserve and perpetuate on a hereditary basis.
Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198030711
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Mother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the rise of goddess worship in the region of Bengal from the middle of the eighteenth century to the present. Focusing on the goddesses Kali and Uma, McDermott examines lyrical poems written by devotees from Ramprasad Sen (ca. 1718-1775) to Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899-1976).
Author : M.L.B. Blom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646604
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Depicted Deities written by M.L.B. Blom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the rules of art. More specifically, it treats of the unwritten rules of Nepalese religious art as laid down in ‘model books’. These can be seen as manuals for the artists, in which they can find the correct way to represent, in visual art, any of some 2000 godly figures. The representation of these gods, all of them with their particular attributes, was (and is) subject to more or less strict rules. These books, the kind of which is also found in Europe in the early Middle Ages, have developed into a special tradition in Nepal, where a unique number of model books was found to be in existence, the oldest of them going back to the 15th century. The author of this study (the first in its kind) has traced the development in time of some 150 popular Hindu deities to determine the meaning of these model books for the artists using them, and also to see if the representation of these gods is in any way related to changes in society.
Author : Diana L. Eck
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0385531907
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book India written by Diana L. Eck and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2012 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spiritual history of India provides coverage of its sacred places, its core tenets, and the historical events of specific regions while sharing a basic introduction to Hindu religious ideas and how they have influenced modern India.
Author : Constance Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0816075646
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Hinduism written by Constance Jones and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated A to Z reference containing more than 700 entries providing information on the theology, people, historical events, institutions and movements related to Hinduism.
Author : Imma Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351840002
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal written by Imma Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population. This book will examine the process by which the Hindu goddess Sati rose to sudden prominence as a personification of the subcontinent and an icon of heroic self-sacrifice. According to a myth of cosmic dismemberment, Sati’s body parts were scattered across South Asia and enshrined as Shakti Pithas, or Seats of Power. These sacred sites were re-imagined as the fragmented body of the motherland in crisis that could provide the basis for an emergent territorial consciousness. The most potent sites were located in eastern India, Kalighat and Tarapith in Bengal, and Kamakhya in Assam. By examining Bengali and colonial responses to these temples and the ritual traditions associated with them, including Tantra and image worship, this book will provide the first comprehensive study of this ancient network of pilgrimage sites in an art historical and political context.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Cultural Heritage of Khurda written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to Khurda District of Orissa, India; contributed articles.
