Author: Rajendra Chandra HazraPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120804227
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Studies in the Purāṇic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs
Author: Rajendra Chandra HazraPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120804227
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Studies in the Puranic Records of Hindu Rites and Customs
Author: Rajendra Chandra HazraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Studies in the Puranic records on Hindu rites and customs
Author: R. C. HazraStudies in the Purāṇic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs
Author: R. C. HazraStudies in the Purānic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs
Author: Rajendra Chandra HazraPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puranas
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Studies in the Purāṇic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs
Author: Rajendra C. HazraHindu Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions
Author: Prem P. BhallaPublisher: Pustak Mahal
ISBN: 812230902X
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Rites, rituals and customs play a major role in the life of every person, irrespective of religious affiliations.Right from the time of birth, till a person's passing away and even after it, rites and rituals follow a Hindu, much like a shadow. This book outlines all these practices from the sunrise to the sunset years. It makes for an enlightening reading for Hindus as well as non-Hindus.
On Hinduism
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019936009X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
In this magisterial volume of essays, Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnected essays and lectures surveys the most critically important and hotly contested issues in Hinduism over 3,500 years, from the ancient time of the Vedas to the present day. The essays contemplate the nature of Hinduism; Hindu concepts of divinity; attitudes concerning gender, control, and desire; the question of reality and illusion; and the impermanent and the eternal in the two great Sanskrit epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Among the questions Doniger considers are: Are Hindus monotheists or polytheists? How can atheists be Hindu, and how can unrepentant Hindu sinners find salvation? Why have Hindus devoted so much attention to the psychology of addiction? What does the significance of dogs and cows tell us about Hinduism? How have Hindu concepts of death, rebirth, and karma changed over the course of history? How and why does a pluralistic faith, remarkable for its intellectual tolerance, foster religious intolerance? Doniger concludes with four concise autobiographical essays in which she reflects on her lifetime of scholarship, Hindu criticism of her work, and the influence of Hinduism on her own philosophy of life. On Hinduism is the culmination of over forty years of scholarship from a renowned expert on one of the world's great faiths.
Women and the Puranic Tradition in India
Author: Monika SaxenaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429826397
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Purāṇic traditions in ancient India – the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute – against the socio-religious milieu around CE 300–1000. Purāṇas (lit. ancient narratives) are brahmanical texts that largely fall under the category of socio-religious literature which were more broad-based and inclusive, unlike the Smṛtis, which were accessible mainly to the upper sections of society. In locating, identifying, and commenting on the multiplicity of the images and depictions of women’s roles in Purāṇic traditions, the author highlights their lives and experiences over time, both within and outside the traditional confines of the domestic sphere. With a focus on five Mahāpurāṇas that deal extensively with the social matrix Viṣṇu, Mārkaṇḍeya Matsya, Agni, and Bhāgavata Purāṇas, the book explores the question of gender and agency in early India and shows how such identities were recast, invented, shaped, constructed, replicated, stereotyped, and sometimes reversed through narratives. Further, it traces social consequences and contemporary relevance of such representations in marriage, adultery, ritual, devotion, worship, fasts, and pilgrimage. This volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars in women and gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, sociology, literature, and South Asian studies, as also the informed general reader.
The Past Before Us
Author: Romila ThaparPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674726529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 915
Book Description
The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to Romila Thapar: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. In The Past Before Us, a distinguished scholar of ancient India guides us through a panoramic survey of the historical traditions of North India. Thapar reveals a deep and sophisticated consciousness of history embedded in the diverse body of classical Indian literature. The history recorded in such texts as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata is less concerned with authenticating persons and events than with presenting a picture of traditions striving to retain legitimacy and continuity amid social change. Spanning an epoch of nearly twenty-five hundred years, from 1000 BCE to 1400 CE, Thapar delineates three distinct historical traditions: an Itihasa-Purana tradition of Brahman authors; a tradition composed mainly by Buddhist and Jaina scholars; and a popular bardic tradition. The Vedic corpus, the epics, the Buddhist canon and monastic chronicles, inscriptions, regional accounts, and royal biographies and dramas are all scrutinized afresh--not as sources to be mined for factual data but as genres that disclose how Indians of ancient times represented their own past to themselves.