Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Inscriptions of the Sarabhapuriyas, Panudvamsins and Somavamsins
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriInscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas, Pāṇḍuvaṁśins, and Somavaṁśins: Introduction
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120806351
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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Inscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas, Pāṇḍuvamśins, and Somavamśins
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriInscriptions of the Śarabhapurīyas, Pāṇḍuvaṁśins, and Somavaṁśins: Inscriptions
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher: Indian
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Indian Epigraphical Glossary
Author: Dineschandra SircarPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120805620
Category : Inscriptions, Indian
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The interested world of scholars is sure to receive with gratitude this latest work from the erudite pen of Prof. D.C. Sircar who has opened up for us new vistas in the study of Indian antiquities. Prof. Sircar`s Indian Epigraphical Glossary, characterised by a wide sweep of vision based on a meticulous attention to details, is a contribution of the utmost importance. Here one finds an embarras de richesses in a comprehensive dictionary of technical expressioins found in documents embracing nearly 2000 years in time and the entire Indian sub-continent in space and written in a variety of languages. It offers a panorama of Indian political and cultural life as enshrined in a series of expressions which are precise and historically important. Many of them remained obscure, and Prof. Sircar, with his thorough knowledge of the subject in the study of which he has spent a life-time, has succeeded in most cases in giving quite satisfactory interpretations. The mass of material in this invaluable publication, which will continue to be an indispensable work of reference for many years to come, brings in a volume of lexical material for the compilation of an exhaustive Dictionary of Sanskrit. The importance of the work, which I would consider epoch-making in the domain of Indology, has been considerably enhanced by three remarkable Appendices.
The Sātavāhanas and the Western Kshatrapas
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Ancient North-East India
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Script and Image
Author: Adalbert J. GailPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120829442
Category : Art, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
About the Book : The articles collected in this volume, which were originally presented in the panels on art and epigraphy at the 12th World Sanskrit Conference in Helsinki, Finland, illustrate the depth, diversity and sophistication of recent studies in
India As Seen In The Kuttanimata Of Damodara Gupta
Author: A.M. ShastriPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120813366
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Languages : en
Pages : 340
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The Kuttani-mata of Damodaragupta is one of the few works in the history of classical Sanskrit literature the time and locale of the composition whereof can be ascertained with a fair degree of certainty. We learn from Kalhana that Damodaragupta occupied a high position under the Karkota-Naga king Jayapida Vinayaditya who ruled over Kashmir in the closing years of the eighth and early years of the ninth centuries A.D. A critical study of the internal evidence indicates that the work was probably composed a few years after the close of Jayapida's reign. As indicated by the title, the text aims at exposing the secrets of the whole craft of prostitution in the form of the advice of an experienced bawd (Kuttani) to a courtesan, and from this point of view it occupies a unique place in the whole range of Sanskrit literature; for the account is based not only on the standard erotic texts like Vatsyayana's Kama-sutra but draws copiously upon the poet's personal observation of the actual state of affairs obtaining in post-Jayapida Kashmir. But the poem has a much wider scope than its professed theme and covers the entire gamut of contemporary life of Kashmir in particular and northern India in general in all its varied aspects and as such forms an important source for the study of contemporary Indian society. The present work attempts a critical evaluation of this evidence in the light of relevant literary and archaeological data. In the process new light is thrown on several important questions.
Ancient Indian Heritage, Varahamihira's India: Historical geography, religion, and society
Author: Ajay Mitra ShastriPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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