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Author : Alice Boner
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Silpa Prakasa Medieval Orissan Sanskrit Text on Temple Architecture written by Alice Boner and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1966 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Śilpa Ratnākara written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nilakanth Dash
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120816053
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Vāstu, Astrology, and Architecture written by Nilakanth Dash and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vastu Sastra an important limb of Jyotisa or astrology is an ancient science and study of architecture and engineering. The present volume is an outcome of a symposium on Vastu. One of the goals of the symposium was to revive the lost glory of Vastu and show its relevance to modern times. The book covers different aspects of construction from planning to execution. It underline the role of Jyotisa astrology in Vastu principles. The book will stimulate greater interest in ancient Vastu principles amongst modern architects and enginers and present them a new perspective which will raise their creativity to new untouched heights. The book has been divided into three broad sections covering different aspects of Vastu Silpa-I. Vastu and its Relevance to Modern Times; II. Vastu and Jyotisa; and III. Vastu and Temple Architecture comprising thirty-three articles in all. Their contributors represent a range of viewpoints on Vastu principles. All write with intelligence and insight keeping in view its relevance with modern times needs of architecture and engineering.
Author : John Cort
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190452579
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Framing the Jina written by John Cort and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India. Most of these narratives portray icons favorably, and so justify their existence; but there are also narratives originating among iconoclastic Jain communities that see the existence of temple icons as a sign of decay and corruption. The veneration of Jina icons is one of the most widespread of all Jain ritual practices. Nearly every Jain community in India has one or more elaborate temples, and as the Jains become a global community there are now dozens of temples in North America, Europe, Africa, and East Asia. The cult of temples and icons goes back at least two thousand years, and indeed the largest of the four main subdivisions of the Jains are called Murtipujakas, or "Icon Worshipers." A careful reading of narratives ranging over the past 15 centuries, says Cort, reveals a level of anxiety and defensiveness concerning icons, although overt criticism of the icons only became explicit in the last 500 years. He provides detailed studies of the most important pro- and anti-icon narratives. Some are in the form of histories of the origins and spread of icons. Others take the form of cosmological descriptions, depicting a vast universe filled with eternal Jain icons. Finally, Cort looks at more psychological explanations of the presence of icons, in which icons are defended as necessary spiritual corollaries to the very fact of human embodiedness.
Author : Bob van der Linden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004694803
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Romantic Nationalism in India written by Bob van der Linden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the concept of ‘Romantic nationalism’, this interdisciplinary global historical study investigates cultural initiatives in (British) India that aimed at establishing the nation as a moral community and which preceded or accompanied state-oriented political nationalism. Drawing on a vast array of sources, it discusses important Romantic nationalist traits, such as the relationship between language and identity, historicism, artistic revivalism and hero worship. Ultimately, this innovative book argues that because of the confrontation with European civilization and processes of modernization at large, cultivation of culture in British India was morally and spiritually more important to the making of the nation than in Europe.
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Archaeology and Text written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a temple? Who built or patronized such structures and why? Temples have always formed a crucial element of the cultural landscape of South Asia. Combining textual analysis, archaeology, and archival research with contemporary anthropology, Archaeology and Text provides a stimulating appraisal of religious life in the past. Through detailed case studies from regions like Karnataka, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bengal, and Orissa, the book examines both the religious architecture of the temples and the cultural practices surrounding them. The essays underscore the importance of the temple in its interaction with diverse interest groups, such as worshippers, ritual specialists, ascetics, patrons, artisans, and others. They also show how temples were not only expressions of political authority but also formed important centres of learning, popular devotion, and pilgrimage. The volume explores the development of bhakti and ascetic traditions in the subcontinent in relation to temples. It investigates the relationship between sacrificial rituals and devotional practices; emergent religious cultures and older traditions; and temples and renouncers. The collection also questions the notion of boundaries surrounding religious traditions underlining the fact that present categories do not fit neatly in those of a bygone era. The introduction provides a succinct account of sacred spaces as they came to be defined in archaeological records from the first millennium BCE onwards.
Author : Ahmed Sayeed
Publisher : Sankalp Publication
ISBN 13 : 9390636779
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Dharma Karama of Hinduism written by Ahmed Sayeed and published by Sankalp Publication. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kantilal F. Sompura
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Structural Temples of Gujarat, Upto 1600 A.D. written by Kantilal F. Sompura and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Sushma Ahuja
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (866 download)
Download or read book Satyam Shivam Sundaram written by Dr. Sushma Ahuja and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive, iconographic, aesthetic and artistic study of the female figurine at the temples of Hadoti, Ellora and Khajuraho. It describes in detail the temple sculptures through a comparative analysis of their contents and techniques. It traces the development of symbolic imagery and the artistic tradition of that site, while at the same time highlighting those statues or panels which are the most authentic artworks of their style and the symbol of Shakti or female power. This book brings forward glimpses of India's rich cultural heritage and the manifestation of Shakti, the powerful Goddess.
Author : Dinanath Pathy
Publisher : Working Artists Association of Orissa Anew Delhi
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom written by Dinanath Pathy and published by Working Artists Association of Orissa Anew Delhi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.
Author : Claude Batley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Architecture written by Claude Batley and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lalit Kumar Shukla
Publisher : Varanasi : Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Study of Hindu Art and Architecture written by Lalit Kumar Shukla and published by Varanasi : Chowkhamba Sanskrit Series Office. This book was released on 1972 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Puraratna written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles; festschrift in honor of Jagat Pati Joshi, archaeologist.
Author : Dr. Shikha Bhatnagar
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Legends of Shree Jagannath written by Dr. Shikha Bhatnagar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2023-10-09 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book narrates interesting and amazing legends of Lord Jagannath. The mythical, historical, metaphysical, philosophical and cultural paradigms intertwine leading to an open-ended interpretation as questions arise in the seeker's mind get the corresponding answers based on their perception and intellect, blurring the lines between illusion and reality. Here faith replaces reason heralding a miraculous transformation of the "soul.” A true makeover, revealing the essence of the self, removing imprints of past "Samskaras" as one takes a dip in the ocean of "Bhakti.” It is in this mode that one should read these legends of the Lord. It is this esoteric experience which each quest for divinity signifies. Numerous accounts have been written, numerous experiences abound, yet it is " one's experience of the divine which defines and transforms one's vision of the real and surreal....I leave the decision to the readers....to experience their own version of reality as the ultimate goal which matters is "Sharanagati" to obtain "Kaivalya" a superior form of Liberation or "moksha", here "the power of the pure consciousness settles in its own pure nature".(Kaivalya Pada:Sutra 34 of Patanjali's Yogasutras.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Umakant Premanand Shah
Publisher : [Ahmedabad] : Gujarat State Committee for the Celebration of 2500th Anniversary of Bhagav̄an Mah̄av̄ira Nirv̄ana : distributors, L.D. Institute of Indology
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Aspects of Jaina Art and Architecture written by Umakant Premanand Shah and published by [Ahmedabad] : Gujarat State Committee for the Celebration of 2500th Anniversary of Bhagav̄an Mah̄av̄ira Nirv̄ana : distributors, L.D. Institute of Indology. This book was released on 1975 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oriental Institute (Vadodara, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Oriental Institute written by Oriental Institute (Vadodara, India) and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
