Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Ancient Indian Heritage, Varahamihira's India: Historical geography, religion, and society
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Ancient Indian Heritage, Varahamihira's India: Economy, astrology, fine arts, and literature
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Social and Cultural History of Ancient India
Author: Manilal BosePublisher: Concept Publishing Company
ISBN: 9788170225980
Category : Hindu civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
This Book Shows How The Culture Of India Emerged As A Result Religio-Spiritual Thinking Of The Indian Seers And Saints. Discussing The Ethnic Composition And Foreign Elements In Indian History, It Provides A Deep Insight In To The Four Asramas Brahmacharya, Grihasthya, Vanaprastha And Sanyasa. Also It Takes A Close Look At Marriage, Sex Relations, Status Of Women, Spirituality, Religion, Philosophy, Language, Literature, Art And Living Conditions Of The People.
Ancient Indian Heritage, Varahamihira's India
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
ISBN: 9788173050831
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India
Author: Surinder M. BhardwajPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520049512
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
"Dr. Bhardwaj's in-depth study of the various aspects of the institution of pilgrimage shows that instead of being a simple practice it has been a gigantic phenomenon affecting all aspects of Indian life. . . integrating diverse forces, various cults, and numerous traditions over the ages."--Asian Student "This is the best general survey of a major religion's total pilgrimage system and the best intensive investigation of one of its subsystems. . . . Dr. Bhardwaj's book is an important step towards the recognition of a social phenomenon which has for millennia played a crucial role in the integration of religions, nationalities, and international communities. And, not least importantly, it is highly readable."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Detailed, accurate, and generally informative; he has succeeded in tracing, for the first time, the relationship of the rank-order or 'level' of a sacred place. . . to its degree of sanctity, type of deity, and caste and motivation of the pilgrim. . . .The implications of Mr. Bhardwaj's study are profound and necessary to the understanding of Indian religion. . . it is fascinating."--Times Literary Supplement "Here is a fine example of what the geographic study of India needs: disciplined work that shows full awareness of Indian cultural meanings. . . .it sets a worth standard."--Professional Geographer
History of Pilgrimage in Ancient India, AD 300-1200
Author: Samarendra Nārāyaṇa ĀryaPublisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Illustrations: 4 Maps Description: The book outlines the origin and development of the practice of pilgrimage in India between AD 300 and 1200 and draws extensively on epigraphic and literary data particularly the Puranic corpus to delineate the growing popularity of the ritual, spatially and chronologically. Viewing religion as part of the social process, it seeks to explore linkages between new religious trends and changes taking place in the material conditions of life. Although there are a few references to pilgrimage centres in inscriptions of the early second century, the number of these destinations rapidly multiplied from the fourth-fifth centuries, coinciding meaningfully with widespread decay and desertion of urban places. In an age of political disintegration and social insularity religious congregations served as the nucleus of cultural bonding. Alongside of decaying towns cult-sites relating to forests, hill tracts, deserts, river banks, sea-coasts, crossroads all surfaced as pilgrimage centres of some sort, with an attendant increase in the number of myths and legends sanctifying these places with the emergence of temple as the focal point of social processes, even large villages and marginal political centres also emerged as places of pilgrimage. A thrust area of the ritual was the changing nature of the gift-exchange system. Gifts, largely agricultural goods and inputs during the Gupta and post-Gupta times were necessary if one wished to acquire religious merit and drive away the impurities of deeds and thoughts entailing loss of social status. Charities, performed at the sacred places, were considered all the more beneficial. The idea, that religious merit ensured a comfortable afterlife and that dying in places sanctified by gods and god-men brought instant religious merit, encouraged the practice of committing self-immolation at the holiest of pilgrimage centres.
A Religious History of Ancient India, Upto C. 1200 A.D.: Pre-Vedic, Vedic, Jaina, and Buddhist religions
Author: Śrīrāma GoyalaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Religion and Society in Ancient India
Author: Pranabananda JashPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Studies in the Historical Geography of Ancient India
Author: O. P. BharadwajPublisher: Delhi : Sundeep Prakashan
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Author: Vasant D. Rao