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Book Synopsis The Yoga of the Nine Emotions by : Peter Marchand
Download or read book The Yoga of the Nine Emotions written by Peter Marchand and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2006-04-21 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rasas are the essence of our emotions that exist in both the body and the mind. Peter Marchand offers practical physiological and philosophical tools that can help readers change their emotional patterns. Those who practice Rasa Sadhana learn to overcome negative emotions in order to pursue better health, enhanced spiritual growth, and enduring happiness.
Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature by : Amaresh Datta
Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Indian Literature written by Amaresh Datta and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Major Activity Of The Sahitya Akademi Is The Preparation Of An Encyclopaedia Of Indian Literature. The Venture, Covering Twenty-Two Languages Of India, Is The First Of Its Kind. Written In English, The Encyclopaedia Gives A Comprehensive Idea Of The Growth And Development Of Indian Literature. The Entries On Authors, Books And General Topics Have Been Tabulated By The Concerned Advisory Boards And Finalised By A Steering Committee. Hundreds Of Writers All Over The Country Contributed Articles On Various Topics. The Encyclopaedia, Planned As A Six-Volume Project, Has Been Brought Out. The Sahitya Akademi Embarked Upon This Project In Right Earnest In 1984. The Efforts Of The Highly Skilled And Professional Editorial Staff Started Showing Results And The First Volume Was Brought Out In 1987. The Second Volume Was Brought Out In 1988, The Third In 1989, The Fourth In 1991, The Fifth In 1992, And The Sixth Volume In 1994. All The Six Volumes Together Include Approximately 7500 Entries On Various Topics, Literary Trends And Movements, Eminent Authors And Significant Works. The First Three Volume Were Edited By Prof. Amaresh Datta, Fourth And Fifth Volume By Mohan Lal And Sixth Volume By Shri K.C.Dutt.
Download or read book Shringara written by Alka Pande and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hare Krishna Movement by : Edwin Bryant
Download or read book The Hare Krishna Movement written by Edwin Bryant and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-23 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dancing and chanting with their shaven heads and saffron robes, Hare Krishnas presented the most visible face of any of the eastern religions transplanted to the West during the sixties and seventies. Yet few people know much about them. This comprehensive study includes more than twenty contributions from members, ex-members, and academics who have followed the Hare Krishna movement for years. Since the death of its founder, the movement, also known as the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), has experienced debates over the roles of authority, heresy, and dissent, which have led to the development of several splinter movements. There is a growing women's rights movement and a highly publicized child abuse scandal. Providing a privileged look at the people and issues shaping ISKCON, this volume also offers insight into the complex factors surrounding the emergence of religious traditions, including early Christianity, as well as a glimpse of the original seeds and the germinating stages of a religious tradition putting down roots in foreign soil.
Book Synopsis Music Contexts by : Ashok Damodar Ranade
Download or read book Music Contexts written by Ashok Damodar Ranade and published by Bibliophile South Asia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Words for the Heart written by Maria Heim and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly diverse collection of classical Indian terms for expressing the many moods and subtleties of emotional experience Words for the Heart is a captivating treasury of emotion terms drawn from some of India’s earliest classical languages. Inspired by the traditional Indian genre of a “treasury”—a wordbook or anthology of short texts or poems—this collection features 177 jewellike entries evoking the kinds of phenomena English speakers have variously referred to as emotions, passions, sentiments, moods, affects, and dispositions. These entries serve as beautiful literary and philosophical vignettes that convey the delightful texture of Indian thought and the sheer multiplicity of conversations about emotions in Indian texts. An indispensable collection, Words for the Heart reveals how Indian ways of interpreting human experience can challenge our assumptions about emotions and enrich our lives. Brings to light a rich lexicon of emotion from ancient India Uses the Indian genre of a “treasury,” or wordbook, to explore the contours of classical Indian thought in three of the subcontinent’s earliest languages—Sanskrit, Pali, and Prakrit Features 177 alphabetical entries, from abhaya (“fearlessness”) to yoga (“the discipline of calm”) Draws on a wealth of literary, religious, and philosophical writings from classical India Includes synonyms, antonyms, related words, and suggestions for further reading Invites readers to engage in the cross-cultural study of emotions Reveals the many different ways of naming and interpreting human experience
Book Synopsis Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty by : Kathleen M. Higgins
Download or read book Artistic Visions and the Promise of Beauty written by Kathleen M. Higgins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the motives behind rejections of beauty often found within contemporary art practice, where much critically acclaimed art is deliberately ugly and alienating. It reflects on the nature and value of beauty, asking whether beauty still has a future in art and what role it can play in our lives generally. The volume discusses the possible “end of art,” what art is, and the relation between art and beauty beyond their historically Western horizons to include perspectives from Asia. The individual chapters address a number of interrelated issues, including: art, beauty and the sacred; beauty as a source of joy and consolation; beauty as a bridge between the natural and the human; beauty and the human form; the role of curatorial practice in defining art; order and creativity; and the distinction between art and craft. The volume offers a valuable addition to cross-cultural dialogue and, in particular, to the sparse literature on art and beauty in comparative context. It demonstrates the relevance of the rich tradition of Asian aesthetics and the vibrant practices of contemporary art in Asia to Western discussions about the future of art and the role of beauty.
Book Synopsis Bardic Destinies by : Krishna R. Kanchith
Download or read book Bardic Destinies written by Krishna R. Kanchith and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across time and cultures. The book grapples with three major concepts in the humanities—the literary, the philosophical/theological and the historical. It looks at Homer’s reception by Plato; Virgil’s reception by Christianity; the many responses that The Mahabharata has received over centuries and across cultures in India; and the reception of Kumaravyasa’s Kumaravyasabharata, among other works, and analyses the understanding of truth, time and history that influence the reading of these works in different times and cultural contexts. Part of the Critical Humanities across Cultures series, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of philosophy, literature, history, comparative literature, cultural studies and post-colonial studies.
Download or read book Kuchipudi written by Sunil Kothari and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Of The Seven Major Classical Dance Forms Of India, Kuchipudi In Its Solo Avatara Has Acquired A Status Of A Classical Dance Form Of Andhra Pradesh. The Story Of Kuchipudi From Its Origin As A Dance-Drama And Its Emergence As A Solo Dance Form Is One Of The Most Fascinating Phenomena Engaging Attention Of The Gurus, The Performing Dancers And The Research Scholars. Essentially A Preserve Of The Male Dancers, Who Also Excelled In The Female Roles, Today Kuchipudi Is Being Mainly Performed By The Female Dancers. However, The Tradition Continues To Survive In Kuchipudi Village, Some 30 Kilometres Away From Vijayawada In Andhra Pradesh. The Traditional Dance-Dramas Continue To Exist Along With More Popular Solo Dance Form. Kuchipudi Has Innumerable Votaries Not Only In India But Also Abroad And Their Number Is Ever Increasing. Padma Shri Dr. Sunil Kothari, Dance Historian, Scholar And Critic, Traces In This Volume The Origins Of The Dance-Drama Tradition, Correlating The Prayoga, The Practice And The Shastra, The Theory And How From The Natya, The Drama, Its Integral Elements Nritya, Expressional Dance And Nritta, The Pure Dance In The Hands Of Creative, Traditional Gurus Have Shaped Its Present Solo Format, Giving It Its Own Identity. Based On His Extensive Field Work Dr. Kothari Has Studied The Allied Forms Like Vithi Bhagavatam, Turpubani Vidhi Natakam, Pagati Vesham, Navajanardana Parijatam, Bhagavata Mela Nataka, Kuravanji Dance- Idrama And Offered An Overview Of The Dance Form As It Exists Today And Continues To Develop In Its Many Ramifications. He Has Also Dwelt Upon The All-Pervading Influence Of Vempati Chinna Satyam And His Contibution In Sh Dj'Ing Kuchipudi Into A Solo Form Along With The Dance-Dramas That He Has Choreographed. The Brief Biographies Of The Traditional Gurus And Some Of The Celebrated Exponents I Add Tp The Value Of This Volume, Presenting The Current State Of Kuchipudi On The Contemporary Dance Scene. Profusely Illustrated With 166 Colour And 221 Black And White Photographs By The Ace Photographer A Vinash Pasricha And Designed By The Eminent Artist And Designer Dashrath Patel, Kuchipudi Is A Major Significant Study Of The Classical D'Ance Form Of Andhra Pradesh.
Book Synopsis The Sacred Complex of Kashi by : Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi
Download or read book The Sacred Complex of Kashi written by Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the importance of Varanasi as a centre for Hindu pilgrimage and the traditional priestcraft of the place.
Book Synopsis Krishna as Poetry by : Harsha V. Dehejia
Download or read book Krishna as Poetry written by Harsha V. Dehejia and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book The romantic Krishna finds a textual presence for the first time in the Bhagavata Purana and then for a thousand years we celebrate that Krishna through heart-throbbing poetry. Krishna is indeed both the kavi and the kavya, rasa and rasika, the shabda and the artha, He is Purusha and Prakriti. Krishna dances and frolics, speaks and sings, and shringara in its many colours comes alive for us through kavya. We are the gopis of Vrindavana, the nayikas of Ritikavya as Krishna comes alive not through religious rites and rituals but through the joy of poetry and painting and we acclaim krishna svayam kavyam. After we have experienced the aesthetic pleasure of the love of Krishna we realize that all love in this world is that of Krishna, the hushed words of romance between a man and a woman are those of Krishna and Radha, all poetry that celebrates romantic love is that of Krishna, so that we can turn the sentence around and say kavyam svayam krishna. We invite you to immerse yourself in the beautiful poetry of Krishna, through the melody and lyrics let His madhurya wash over you like the waves of the Yamuna and his many-splendoured persona make your mind dance like the birds and blossoms of Vrindavana. Harsha V. Dehejia beautifully weaves a tapestry of Krishna Shringara Kavya enriched by the colours and textures of paintings by the noted artist Vijay Sharma. The book assures the reader both the joy of poetry and the visual delight of painting. About the Author Harsha V. Dehejia has a double doctorate, one in medicine and other in ancient Indian culture, both from Mumbai University. He is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Glasgow and Canada all by examination. He is a practising Physician and Professor of Indian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His main interest is in Indian aesthetics.
Download or read book Radhayan written by Harsha V. Dahejia and published by DK Printworld (P) Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-23 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Of all the mythic characters in the Hindu pantheon none is more enigmatic and evocative than Radha. Appearing for the first time in Jayadeva’s Gita Govinda, where she is the ultimate beloved, she traverses political dynasties, royal ateliers and social barriers to emerge as a consort of Krishna. Brought alive by poets, developing a colourful presence in the hands of painters, dancing through prosceniums and acquiring a lyrical life through songs, both classical and popular, Radha is present in homes and havelis, celebrated by the the samajika and the rasika, has a presence in temples and roadside shrines as a symbol of pure and eternal love. And yet there are so many questions about her life; poets differ in their portrayals of her, historians argue, dancers claim her through their interpretations and for the common person she is now a shringara rasa nayika and now a goddess. But Radha stands steadfastly alone refusing to be bound down by poets or potters, dancers or singers. Harsha V. Dehejia weaves an enchanting story of Radha with a multicoloured thread, where myth blends into history and fiction challenges reality and Radha emerges in all her poetic glory in this spellbinding story. Vijay Sharma and his team of artists bring Radha colourfully alive with miniature paintings, for it is there rather than sculpture that Radha resides. She is essentially kavyamaya, her origins are in the minds of poets, it is there that she grows, dallies and evolves. And while her voice is heard in songs and her footsteps resonate with dancers, it is in miniature paintings, through line and colour, that Radha comes alive as a multidimensional, many-nuanced paragon of love. This is Radhayan. About the Author Harsha V. Dehejia has a double doctorate, one in medicine and other in ancient Indian culture, both from Mumbai University. He is also a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Glasgow and Canada all by examination. He is a practising Physician and Professor of Indian Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. His main interest is in Indian aesthetics.
Download or read book Ragamalika written by Meera Shivashankar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2021-04-09 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five years after her last romance novel, Meera Shivashankar returns with an anthology of raga-based short stories. A young woman named Nandini who is enamoured by a selfless man devoted to his only son; Nilakshi, a middle-aged woman who rediscovers her passion for dance; Anantha, who finds out some disturbing truths about her domineering mother; Raghuvir, a renowned classical musician who is shocked by the reviews of a music blogger; a famous celebrity who tried to take her own life - These are just some of the tales in this fascinating new anthology of short stories. Read all these and more in ‘Ragamalika’ -- an anthology of music-themed short stories by popular romance novelist Meera Shivashankar. Twelve skilfully crafted stories that examine the human heart and mind and the emotions ranging from love and jealousy to anger and revenge that govern the actions of people, giving us a poignant insight into people, each beautifully laced with a raga. Come lose yourself in the beauty of ‘Ragamalika’ and find a story and a raga that touch your soul. A must-read for lovers of contemporary fiction and Indian classical music.
Book Synopsis Bilhana by : Prabhakar Narayan Kawthekar
Download or read book Bilhana written by Prabhakar Narayan Kawthekar and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chandu Menon Was A Pathbreaaker In The Field Of Malayalam Literature. His Induledkha Was The First Novel In Malayalam In The Sense That It Was No Adaption Or Translationý
Book Synopsis Kathak, Indian Classical Dance Art by : Sunil Kothari
Download or read book Kathak, Indian Classical Dance Art written by Sunil Kothari and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathak, the Indian classical dance form prevalent in the North, has a long past. Nurtured in the holy precincts of the Hindu temples, Kathak dance has over the centuries, attained refinement and enriched itself with various hues and embellishments. The art of story-telling which found expression in various forms like the Akhyana by the Manabhattas of Gujarat, the Pandavani by the artistes telling stories in Madhya Pradesh, the Harikathas and Kalakshepams of the South, the Kirtanas of the West, the art of Wari-liba, story-telling of the North-East, specially of Manipur, reflects the rich heritage Kathak has inherited over the years. In forms such as Baithakachi Lavani and the bhava to the Ghazals the range is both varied and vast. Though essentially seen in its solo form, Kathak in its Natya aspects shares a large corpus of the Rasalilas of Brindavan. Its journey from the Hindu temples to the courts of the Mughals is quite fascinating and the various elements it has imbibed over the different periods in history have given Kathak an equisite character. The Persian influence, the patronage of the Muslim kings, the flowering of the two main gharanas (schools), the Jaipur and the Lucknow, and the contribution of the Maharaj Brothers, the famous descendants of Kalka-Bindadin, viz.; Acchan Maharaj, Shambhu Maharaj, Lacchu Maharaj and Birju Maharaj, the great gurus of Jaipur like Jailalji and Sunder Prasadji portray Kathak as it has developed in recent times. Whereas the Choreographic attempts by Madame Menaka and later on by Birju Maharaj and Kumudini Lakhia provide a perspective for viewing Kathak in its many-faceted forms. The footwork, the nritta pieces like tode, tukde, parans, the improvisational aspects and the simple graceful gats and gat-nikas, the illusion of miniature paintings coming to life and many other aspects are vividly captured in this most comprehensive and thoroughl;y researched book on Kathak. It has an attractive section on the contemporary practitioners ranging from Birju Maharaj, Sitara Devi, Damayanti Joshi, Kumudini Lakhia, Rohini Bhate, Roshan Kumari, Gopi Krishna, Durgalal to the young exponents who carry forward the tradition in the present times. Lavishly illustrated with colour and black and white photographs and designed by Dolly Sahiar the many-splendoured beauty of Kathak is captured in this volume, which should appeal to the cognoscenti and lay readers alike.
Book Synopsis A Celebration of Love by : Harsha V. Dehejia
Download or read book A Celebration of Love written by Harsha V. Dehejia and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes us to the Nayika in the Indian tradition, one who is paradigm of mankind's perennial quest for a divine and transcendental love.
Download or read book Aesthetics written by and published by Krishna Prakashan Media. This book was released on 2008 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
