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Author : D. B. Diskalkar
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Selection from Sanskrit inscriptions written by D. B. Diskalkar and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles D. Collins
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791499537
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Iconography and Ritual of Śiva at Elephanta written by Charles D. Collins and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1988-11-10 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beautiful rock-cut Siva temple on Elephanta Island in Bombay Harbor is one of the finest monuments of Indian religion and art. Until now, interpretation of its magnificent sculptured scenes has been neglected. In this book, Collins systematically surveys the pertinent Vedic, Epic, and early Puranic literature as well as the contributions of India's foremost poet and dramatist, Kalidasa, to reveal sources for and interpretations of the subjects of the relief sculptures. This survey shows strong associations with areas formerly controlled by the classical Gupta dynasty in northern India. This book provides the first detailing of this link, intimated by others before, which helps to explain the grandeur of style found in the colossal reliefs. By applying certain aspects of ritual texts of the Lakulisa-Pasupata, the sect that probably used Elephanta originally, exceptional clarity is revealed for the worship of the sculptures in a counterclockwise sequence, quite unusual in India, but appropriate to this particular sect. Lakulisa-Pasupata texts are invoked in Collins' theory of how the cave-temple at Elephanta was used. This area of investigation has been virtually untouched by other scholars for any early Hindu shrine in India.
Author : Susan Verma Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317194136
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces written by Susan Verma Mishra and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the religious shrine in western India as an institution of cultural integration in the period spanning 200 BCE to 800 CE. It presents an analysis of religious architecture at multiple levels, both temporal and spatial, and distinguishes it as a ritual instrument that integrates individuals and communities into a cultural fabric. The work shows how these structures emphasise on communication with a host of audiences such as the lay worshipper, the ritual specialist, the royalty and the elite as well as the artisan and the sculptor. It also examines religious imagery, inscriptions, traditional lore and Sanskrit literature. The book will be of special interest to researchers and scholars of ancient Indian history, Hinduism, religious studies, architecture and South Asian studies.
Author : Irving Hexham
Publisher : Zondervan Academic
ISBN 13 : 0310314488
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Understanding World Religions written by Irving Hexham and published by Zondervan Academic. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religions, but usually, valuable knowledge of these other traditions is limited at best. On the one hand, religious stereotypes abound, hampering a serious exploration of unfamiliar philosophies and practices. On the other hand, the popular idea that all religions lead to the same God or the same moral life fails to account for the distinctive origins and radically different teachings found across the world’s many religions. Understanding World Religions presents religion as a complex and intriguing matrix of history, philosophy, culture, beliefs, and practices. Hexham believes that a certain degree of objectivity and critique is inherent in the study of religion, and he guides readers in responsible ways of carrying this out. Of particular importance is Hexham’s decision to explore African religions, which have frequently been absent from major religion texts. He surveys these in addition to varieties of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Author : D.C. Sircar
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
ISBN 13 : 8120841034
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Indian Epigraphy written by D.C. Sircar and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant of India's contributions of the civilization of the world was made in the ancient period. Unfortunately, the history of this glorious epoch, which is an interesting chapter in the annals of human civilization, was lost and we have been reconstructing it on the basis of information gathered from various sources. Of these, epigraphy is the most important, since the major part of what we already know about ancient India is derived from the study of inscriptions. In the present work, Professor D.C. Sircar deals with various problems relating to Indian pigraphy and it is expected to be useful to people interested in ancient Indian history in general and Indian inscriptions in particular. Some of the topics discussed herein are: inscriptions and their evidence, languages in which the inscriptions are written, writing materials, the preparation and preservation of documents, copperplate grants, stanzas on bhumi-dana, Indian epigraphy abroad, systems of dating and the different eras, technical expressions including royal titles and official designations, taxes, land measures, nomenclature, etc. There are thirty-six plates illustrating various types of epigraphical records.
Author : European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. International Conference
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971693510
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (935 download)
Download or read book Uncovering Southeast Asia's Past written by European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists. International Conference and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 36 chapters in this collection have been selected to give an overview ofrecent research into prehistoric and early historic archaeology in SoutheastAsia. In the first chapter Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhornof Thailand comments on the significance of the inscriptions from the important Khmer temple, Prasat Phnom Rung in northeastern Thailand. Following this, Professor Charles Higham gives an original and insightful survey of the prehistoric threads linking south China and the countries of modern Southeast Asia.
Author : G.A. Natesan
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 1034 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Indian Review written by G.A. Natesan and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 1034 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Senake Bandaranayake
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004646450
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Sinhalese Monastic Architecture written by Senake Bandaranayake and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert L Brown
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644954
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Dvāravatī Wheels of the Law and the Indianization of South East Asia written by Robert L Brown and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-28 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses a group of Buddhist sculptures from ancient Southeast Asia, putting them into their historical, religious, and artistic context and then traces their relationship with art from India and elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Author : John Thomas
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1647608171
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (476 download)
Download or read book THE MAR THOMA STORY written by John Thomas and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-02 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic of the apostle St. Thomas is reported in this treatise. The traditional tale tells an unacceptable story without credibility and relevance to the reality of how Jesus and His apostles preached—to whom, when, where and why hearers left their earlier faith to become the first believers in the faith, which has since come to be known as Christianity in spite of all the resistance, persecutions and tortures these believers had to endure, suffer and die cruel deaths for. Then there are the enduring unassailable facts—a people on the west Malabar coast of Peninsular India, the Syrian Christians, claiming from the very beginning of their existence of having been Christianised only by the testimony and witness of the apostle to their ancestors, and a tomb on the east Coromandel Coast of peninsular India at Mylapore, forlorn and without any local devotees (until the coming of the Portuguese), that has always been known and claimed to be the only burial place of the apostle. Then it has to be critically evaluated, why among the apostles, St. Thomas alone travelled about 7000 km east and south of Palestine (in a direction away from the travels and mission of all other apostles), traversing desert and ocean to preach only to two similar communities at two seaports at Muziris and Mylapore on either side of peninsular India. This is the enigmatic and perplexing matter thoroughly researched, analysed, evaluated and reported in this book and treatise. The book finally arrives at the factors that led to the success of the apostle’s mission at the seaport of Muziris.
Author : Edward Balfour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 882 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Second Supplement, with Index, to the Cyclopaedia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial, Industrial and Scientific written by Edward Balfour and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139485172
Total Pages : 977 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Strange Parallels: Volume 2, Mainland Mirrors: Europe, Japan, China, South Asia, and the Islands written by Victor Lieberman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-30 with total page 977 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blending fine-grained case studies with overarching theory, this book seeks both to integrate Southeast Asia into world history and to rethink much of Eurasia's premodern past. It argues that Southeast Asia, Europe, Japan, China, and South Asia all embodied idiosyncratic versions of a Eurasian-wide pattern whereby local isolates cohered to form ever larger, more stable, more complex political and cultural systems. With accelerating force, climatic, commercial, and military stimuli joined to produce patterns of linear-cum-cyclic construction that became remarkably synchronized even between regions that had no contact with one another. Yet this study also distinguishes between two zones of integration, one where indigenous groups remained in control and a second where agency gravitated to external conquest elites. Here, then, is a fundamentally original view of Eurasia during a 1,000-year period that speaks to both historians of individual regions and those interested in global trends.
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book The academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daigoro Chihara
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004644962
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Hindu-Buddhist Architecture in Southeast Asia written by Daigoro Chihara and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1996-07 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the technical, artistic and architectural aspects of the Hindu and Buddhist monuments from the beginning until today in Southeast Asia.
Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000166511
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Coastal Shrines and Transnational Maritime Networks across India and Southeast Asia written by Himanshu Prabha Ray and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book breaks new ground by examining trans-oceanic connectivity through the perspective of coastal shrines and maritime cultural landscapes across the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. It covers a period of expanding networks and cross-cultural encounters from the 3rd century BCE to the 13th century CE. The book examines the distinctiveness of these shrines, and highlights their interconnections, and their role in social integration in South and Southeast Asia. By drawing on data from shipwreck sites, the author elaborates on the material and religious intersections and transmissions between cultures across the seas. Many of these coastal shrines survived into the colonial period when they came to be admired for their aesthetic value as ‘monuments’. As nation states of the region became independent, these shrines were often inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on account of their Outstanding Universal Values. The book argues that in the 21st century there is a need to promote the cultural connectivity of the past as transnational heritage on UNESCO’s global platform to preserve and protect our shared heritage. The volume will be essential reading for academics and researchers of archaeology, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history of South and Southeast Asia, religious studies, cultural studies, and Asian studies.
Author : George Peabody Library
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Total Pages : 854 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore ... written by George Peabody Library and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
