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Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838912
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Brahmanda Purana Part 3 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deborah A. Soifer
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791407998
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana written by Deborah A. Soifer and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sanskrit Puranas and epics are replete with stories of the avatars, incarnations of the god Visnu in various forms to rid the universe of malevolent forces and to restore the proper cosmic balance. As Narasimha, half-man half-lion, Visnu finds a loophole in the pact of invulnerability the demon Hiranaipu has received from god Brahma, and rends the demon apart with his claws. As the brahmin dwarf, Vamana, Visnu deceives the demon Bali with his diminutive appearance and thwarts Bali's attempt to gain universal sovereignty. After carefully analyzing the myths of Vamana and Narasimha, Deborah Soifer grounds her study in the textual history of each avatar and its myth, in their religious contexts, and in the intricate cosmology of the classical period of Hinduism. Contrasting the bestial persona of Narasimha with Vamana's priestly appearance and his associations with early cosmologic themes, she finds complementarity and significance in this pair as they are viewed in the larger context of periodic cosmic destructions and recreations. While focusing primarily on these two mythological figures, Soifer's work explores the relationship between dharma and the 'devious' acts of gods; the interplay between cosmic and 'sociocosmic' levels of reality; and the relationship between cosmology, theology, and soteriology in a religious worldview.
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 : Silvia Schwarz Linder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000564487
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Goddess Traditions in India written by Silvia Schwarz Linder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book on the Tripurārahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Śākta literature, is a study of the Śrīvidyā and Śākta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages. Associated with the religious tradition known as Śrīvidyā and devoted to the cult of the Goddess Tripurā, the text was probably composed between the 13th and the 16th century CE. The analysis of its narrative parts addresses questions about the relationships between Tantric and Purāṇic goddesses. The discussion of its philosophical and theological teachings tackles problems related to the relationships between Sākta and Śaiva traditions. The stylistic devices adopted by the author(s) of the work deal uniquely with doctrinal and ritual elements of the Śrīvidyā through the medium of a literary and poetic language. This stylistic peculiarity distinguishes the Tripurārahasya from many other Tantric texts, characterized by a more technical language. The book is intended for researchers in the field of Asian Studies, Indology, Philosophical, Theological or Religious Studies, Hindu Studies, Tantric Studies and South Asian Religion and Philosophy, in particular those interested in Śākta and Śaiva philosophic-religious traditions.
Author : J. L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120839226
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Skanda Purana Part 7 written by J. L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Oly Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100063499X
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Chastity in Ancient Indian Texts written by Oly Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at the representation and practice of chastity in selective ancient Indian texts. It studies how and when the concept originated and in what ways it was intertwined with the social, cultural, and economic notions of Indian society. Drawing on seminal Indian texts such as the MahāPurāṇas, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata, Sattasaī and the Jātakas, the volume delves into the social and reproductive rights of women through an examination of the norms of chastity, virginity, and Pātivratya, which were construed according to a patriarchal hierarchy of the society and implemented as a means of strengthening patriarchal authority. It also examines the interinfluence of various religious traditions that emerged on the very concept of chastity and the ideologies they later gave rise to. A comprehensive study of sexuality and gender in early India, the book will be indispensable to students, teachers, and researchers of gender studies, literature, women’s studies, women’s rights, feminism, South Asian studies, and social history of Ancient India.
Author : J. L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838742
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Bhagavata-Purana Part 1 written by J. L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Purana is a class of literature that treats of 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.
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 : J. L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838823
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Narada-Purana Part 1 written by J. L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438416180
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition written by Tracy Pintchman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the development of saakti (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and prakr(materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic period, clarifying how these principles became central to her theology.
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 : Walter Smith
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120807938
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)
Download or read book The Mukteśvara Temple in Bhubaneswar written by Walter Smith and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tracy Pintchman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791450086
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Seeking Mahadevi written by Tracy Pintchman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the identity of the Hindu Great Goddess and how it relates to the many goddesses worshipped in India.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 2132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J.L. Shastri
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120838955
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Agni-Purana Part 2 written by J.L. Shastri and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ilanit Loewy Shacham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197776221
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Empire Inside Out written by Ilanit Loewy Shacham and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Regardless of terminology, the use of padya and gadya in Telugu literary works is invariably linked to Nannaya (early to mid-11th century), traditionally considered the first poet of Telugu literature. The style that Nannaya inaugurated in his Telugu retelling of the Mahābhārata is regarded as the paradigm for later poets. His mixing of padya and gadya-an element not present in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata-became the preferred mode of poetic composition, even when translating a Sanskrit counterpart that used padya exclusively"--
