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Author : Saṅghadāsagaṇi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 778 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Vasudevahiṇḍi written by Saṅghadāsagaṇi and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical fiction; includes a detailed introductory study (p. 1-155)
Author : Brian Black
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151410
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions written by Brian Black and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or discourse is presented as a series of embedded conversations from different times and places. Including some of the most established scholars of South Asian religious texts, this book examines the use of dialogue in early South Asian texts with an interdisciplinary approach that crosses traditional boundaries between religious traditions. The contributors shed new light on the cultural ideas and practices within religious traditions, as well as presenting an understanding of a range of dynamics - from hostile and competitive to engaged and collaborative. This book is the first to explore the literary dimensions of dialogue in South Asian religious sources, helping to reframe the study of other literary traditions around the world.
Author : Hemacandra
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192832276
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (322 download)
Download or read book The Lives of the Jain Elders written by Hemacandra and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lives of the Jain Elders is the standard synthesis of source material for the early history of Jainism by the great twelfth-century Jain scholar-monk, Hemacandra, also a key figure in the wider context of Sanskrit literature. An epic poem written in an allusive and ornamental style, itrelates the pupillary succession of the early monastic Jain community, their teaching and the legendary spread of their influence, the ascetisicism of the Elders, and their eventual liberation from the cycle of death and rebirth. Abounding in memorable characters, and providing a rich compendium ofIndian folk-tale, The Lives of the Jain Elders offers fascinating insight into the social life of medieval India. This new translation makes the complete work available for the first time in a European language and is complemented by a full introduction illuminating Jain belief and history.
Author : Steven Moore
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441133364
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Novel: An Alternative History written by Steven Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encyclopedic in scope and heroically audacious, The Novel: An Alternative History is the first attempt in over a century to tell the complete story of our most popular literary form. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the novel did not originate in 18th-century England, nor even with Don Quixote, but is coeval with civilization itself. After a pugnacious introduction, in which Moore defends innovative, demanding novelists against their conservative critics, the book relaxes into a world tour of the pre-modern novel, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending in 16th-century China, with many exotic ports-of-call: Greek romances; Roman satires; medieval Sanskrit novels narrated by parrots; Byzantine erotic thrillers; 5000-page Arabian adventure novels; Icelandic sagas; delicate Persian novels in verse; Japanese war stories; even Mayan graphic novels. Throughout, Moore celebrates the innovators in fiction, tracing a continuum between these pre-modern experimentalists and their postmodern progeny. Irreverent, iconoclastic, informative, entertaining-The Novel: An Alternative History is a landmark in literary criticism that will encourage readers to rethink the novel.
Author : Brian Collins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438480407
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Other Rāma written by Brian Collins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Other Rāma presents a systematic analysis of the myth cycle of Paraśurāma ("Rāma with the Axe"), an avatára of Viṣṇu best known for decapitating his own mother and annihilating twenty-one generations of the Kṣatriya warrior caste in an extermination campaign frequently referred to as "genocide" by modern scholars. Compared to Rāma and Kṛṣṇa, the other human forms of Viṣṇu, Paraśurāma has a much darker reputation, with few temples devoted to him and scant worshippers. He has also attracted far less scholarly attention. But dozens of important castes and clans across the subcontinent claim Paraśurāma as the originator of their bloodline, and his mother, Reṇukā, is worshipped in the form of a severed head throughout South India. Using the tools of comparative mythology and psychoanalysis, Brian Collins identifies three major motifs in the mythology of Paraśurāma: his hybrid status as a Brahmin warrior, his act of matricide, and his bloody one-man war to cleanse the earth of Kṣatriyas. Collins considers a wide variety of representations of the myth, from its origins in the Mahābhārata to contemporary debates online. He also examines Paraśurāma alongside the Wandering Jew of European legend and Psycho's matricidal serial killer Norman Bates. He examines why mythmakers once elevated this transgressive and antisocial figure to the level of an avatāra and why he still holds such fascination for a world that continues to grapple with mass killings and violence against women.
Author : Prof.Dr.PEDARAPU CHENNA REDDY
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9356114463
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Nagabharana: Recent Trends in Jainism Studies written by Prof.Dr.PEDARAPU CHENNA REDDY and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sudhamahi Regunathan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353026075
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book From One Birth to Another written by Sudhamahi Regunathan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jaina Agamas are believed to have come down from Mahavira. Some of them even pre-date him. The stories in the agamas were conceptualized as a means to convey the austere teachings of the Jainas in a more relatable, 'entertaining' manner. For the first time, Sudhamahi Regunathan has translated a selection of these and other stories from Jaina literature into English. Ranging from the funny to the tragic, each story has a lesson embedded in it. A dancing girl who teaches a monk the meaning of restraint, a butcher's son who is pressurized by his family to continue his father's violent profession, a young man who wants to study the Kamasastra and more such colourful and interesting characters populate the pages of this book.
Author : Klaus Bruhn
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120806818
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Ludwig Alsdorf and Indian Studies written by Klaus Bruhn and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is meant to commemorate a great German Scholar Prof. Dr. Ludwig Alsdorf and to acquaint a wider public with his academic work in the field of Indian Studies. The book depicts many sided interests in Indian Studies comprising Vedic and Classical Sanskrit texts as well as Buddhist Pali literature and Jaina Apabhramsa living knowledge of the historical, religious, artistic and literary developments on the subcontinent.
Author : Danesh Jain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135797102
Total Pages : 1039 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)
Download or read book The Indo-Aryan Languages written by Danesh Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-07-26 with total page 1039 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indo-Aryan languages are spoken by at least 700 million people throughout India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldive Islands. They have a claim to great antiquity, with the earliest Vedic Sanskrit texts dating to the end of the second millennium B.C. With texts in Old Indo-Aryan, Middle Indo-Aryan and Modern Indo-Aryan, this language family supplies a historical documentation of language change over a longer period than any other subgroup of Indo-European. This volume is divided into two main sections dealing with general matters and individual languages. Each chapter on the individual language covers the phonology and grammar (morphology and syntax) of the language and its writing system, and gives the historical background and information concerning the geography of the language and the number of its speakers.
Author : Thomas Oberlies
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110870932
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Pali written by Thomas Oberlies and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The grammar presents a full decription of Pali, the language used in the Theravada Buddhist canon, which is still alive in Ceylon and South-East Asia. The development of its phonological and morphological systems is traced in detail from Old Indic. Comprehensive references to comparable features and phenomena from other Middle Indic languages mean that this grammar can also be used to study the literature of Jainism.
Author : Truman Simanjuntak
Publisher : Yayasan Obor Indonesia
ISBN 13 : 9789792624991
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Archaeology written by Truman Simanjuntak and published by Yayasan Obor Indonesia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James D. Ryan (Professor of Asian and comparative studies)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (29 download)
Download or read book The Cīvakacintāmaṇi in Historical Perspective written by James D. Ryan (Professor of Asian and comparative studies) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Heinrich von Stietencron
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447030281
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Epic and Purāṇic bibliography: S-Z, Indexes written by Heinrich von Stietencron and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804456
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Indian Kāvya Literature written by Anthony Kennedy Warder and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 Vol. Set, Book pub dates 1988-1994
Author : Peter Flügel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317557174
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy written by Peter Flügel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interest in Indian religion and comparative philosophy has increased in recent years, but despite this the study of Jaina philosophy is still in its infancy. This book looks at the role of philosophy in Jaina tradition, and its significance within the general developments in Indian philosophy. Bringing together chapters by philologists, historians and philosophers, the book focuses on karman theory, the theory of conditional predication, epistemology and the debates of Jaina philosophers with representatives of competing traditions, such as Ājīvika, Buddhist and Hindu. It analyses the relationship between religion and philosophy in Jaina scriptures, both Digambara and Śvetāmbara, and will be of interest to scholars and students of South Asian Religion, Philosophy, and Philology.
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120804487
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Indian Kavya Literature written by Anthony Kennedy Warder and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume III in this series presents some of the most celebrated classical writers of India, including Sudraka, Visnusarman, Kalidasa, Pravarasena, Amaruka, Bharavi, Subandhu and Visakhadatta. A new analysis and appreciation of their poetry, drama and fiction is offered, in the light of Indian literary criticism, especially of the important critical works only recently recovered from scattered manuscripts. During the disastrous later middle ages (about the thirteenth century and later), most of the earlier literature was destroyed by invading fanatics and plunderers. In order to offer a more complete picture of the early medieval literature, an effort has been made here to resurrect, from the critics and elsewhere, such once famous writers as Sarvasena, Candragomin, Matrgupta, Mentha and Brahmayasas, together with what is known of the mysterious `Vikramaditya`. To provide some social background to such aspects of criticism as trends in the characterisation of heroes, the history of the period (+200 to +600) is briefly touched on at the beginning of some of the chapters. The sculpture photographed on the dust jacket, courtesy of the National Museum, New Delhi, is believed to represent a scene from the Toy Cart, though it seems more likely to be from some earlier play.
Author : Sonya Rhie Quintanilla
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047419308
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book History of Early Stone Sculpture at Mathura, ca. 150 BCE - 100 CE written by Sonya Rhie Quintanilla and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the first comprehensive analysis and chronology of the earliest known stone sculptures from the north Indian city of Mathura, dating prior to the famous Kushan period. It includes numerous new attributions of objects based primarily on epigraphic and visual analysis. The sculptures attributable to these pre-Kushan periods reveal new evidence for the reasons behind the emergence of the anthropomorphic image of the Buddha at Mathura, the predominance of a heterodox sect of Jainism, and the proliferation of cults of nature divinities. This book provides a wealth of reference material useful for historians of early Indian art, religion, and epigraphy. The book is illustrated with over three hundred photographs, and it includes epigraphic appendices with complete transcriptions and updated translations.
