Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Monographic Series
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Monographic series
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Advaita Vedanta and Vaisnavism
Author: Sanjukta GuptaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134157746
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In Indian philosophy and theology, the ideology of Vedanta occupies an important position. Hindu religious sects accept the Vedantic soteriology, which believes that there is only one conscious reality, Brahman from which the entire creation, both conscious and non-conscious, emanated. Madhusudana Sarasvati, who lived in sixteenth century Bengal and wrote in Sanskrit, was the last great thinker among the Indian philosophers of Vedanta. During his time, Hindu sectarians, rejected monistic Vedanta. Although a strict monist, Madhusudana tried to make a synthesis between his monistic philosophy and his theology of emotional love for God. Sanjukta Gupta provides the only comprehensive study of Madhusudana Sarasvati's thought. She explores the religious context of his extensive and difficult works, offering invaluable insights into Indian philosophy and theology.
Of Gods and Books
Author: Florinda De SiminiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110477769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
India has been the homeland of diverse manuscript traditions that do not cease to impress scholars for their imposing size and complexity. Nevertheless, many topics concerning the study of Indian manuscript cultures still remain to receive systematic examination. Of Gods and Books pays attention to one of these topics - the use of manuscripts as ritualistic tools. Literary sources deal quite extensively with rituals principally focused on manuscripts, whose worship, donation and preservation are duly prescribed. Around these activities, a specific category of ritual gift is created, which finds attestations in pre-tantric, as well as in smārta and tantric, literature, and whose practice is also variously reflected in epigraphical documents. De Simini offers a first systematic study of the textual evidence on the topic of the worship and donation of knowledge. She gives account of possible implications for the relationships between religion and power. The book is indsipensible for a deeper understanding of the cultural aspects of manuscript transmission in medieval India, and beyond.
Oriental Series: Japan, its history, arts, and literature
Author: Frank BrinkleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga
Author: Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198031602
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
This is a translation of a 12th-century Sanskrit legal text, with the original text. The Dayabhaga was one of the most important texts in the history of Indian law. The text, fairly late and inspiring little attention, is important because the British elevated it to such prominence in their new colony in the early 19th century. It was known as the authority on inheritance and significant aspects of family law for the eastern Indian region. The case law and scholarship that surround this text have shaped Indian personal law right up to the present day.
Panini
Author: Georgio R. CardonaPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110800101
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
No detailed description available for "Panini".
Government Oriental Series
Author: The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120803862
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
This work deals at length with various theories about relgion prevalent at the time when Megasthenes visited India very interesting and scholarly views have been put forth regarding investigations of Megasthenes their reliability and the reliability of his reporters.
The Philosophy of the Grammarians
Author: Harold G. CowardPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120804265
Category : Indo-Aryan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Around Abhinavagupta
Author: Eli FrancoPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643906978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Abhinavagupta is undoubtedly the most famous Kashmirian medieval intellectual: his decisive contributions to Indian aesthetics, Saiva theology, and metaphysics, and to the philosophy of the subtle and original Pratyabhijna system, are well known. Yet so far his works have often been studied without fully taking into account the specific historical, social, artistic, religious, and philosophical context in which they are embedded. The purpose of this book is to show that this intellectual background is no less exceptional than Abhinavagupta himself. (Series: Leipzig Studies on the Culture and History of South and Central Asia / Leipziger Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte Sud- und Zentralasiens, Vol. 6) [Subject: History, Abhinavagupta, India Studies, Religious Studies]