Author: V. R. Ramachandra DikshitarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puranas
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
The Puraṇa Index: From Ya to H
Author: V. R. Ramachandra DikshitarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Puranas
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
Purana Index (vol.2)
Author: V. R. Ramachandra DikshitarPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120812758
Category : Puranas
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Purāṇa Perennis
Author: Wendy DonigerPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438401361
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Purāṇas, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Purāṇas. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytellers.
Markandeya Purana. (Markandeyapuranam)
Author: The Puraṇa Index
Author: V. R. Ramachandra DikshitarPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120912748
Category : Puranas
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Puraṇa Index: From A to Ṇ
Author: V. R. Ramachandra DikshitarPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120812734
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
The Puranas are infallible source of information of Indian history of religion, philosophy, culture and civilisation, polity of society, arts and crafts, architecture and inconography besides royal dynasties and period of their rule. It was long felt that a comprehensive Index of the Puranas was a desideratum. We have an Index to Vedic literature by Macdonell and Keith; we have also one to the Mahabharata by Sorensen; then why not a similar Index to all the eighteen major and an equal number of the minor Puranas which constitute an important branch of Indian literature?
The Purana Index: From Ya to H
Author: V. R. Ramachandra DikshitarPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Madras University Historical series
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
The Śiva-Purāṇa
Author: Jagdish Lal ShastriPublisher:
ISBN: 9789356760967
Category : Hinduism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Purāṇas
Author: Ludo RocherPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447025225
Category : Hindu literature, Sanskrit
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
In Praise of the Goddess
Author: Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
ISBN: 0892546166
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
About 16 centuries ago, an unknown Indian author or authors gathered together the diverse threads of already ancient traditions and wove them into a verbal tapestry that today is still the central text for worshippers of the Hindu Devi, the Divine Mother. This spiritual classic, the Devimahatmya, addresses the perennial questions of the nature of the universe, humankind, and divinity. How are they related, how do we live in a world torn between good and evil, and how do we find lasting satisfaction and inner peace? These questions and their answers form the substance of the Devimahatmya. Its narrative of a dispossessed king, a merchant betrayed by the family he loves, and a seer whose teaching leads beyond existential suffering sets the stage for a trilogy of myths concerning the all-powerful Divine Mother, Durga, and the fierce battles she wages against throngs of demonic foes. In these allegories, her adversaries represent our all-too-human impulses toward power, possessions, and pleasure. The battlefields symbolize the field of human consciousness on which our lives' dramas play out in joy and sorrow, in wisdom and folly. The Devimahatmya speaks to us across the ages of the experiences and beliefs of our ancient ancestors. We sense their enchantment at nature's bounty and their terror before its destructive fury, their recognition of the good and evil in the human heart, and their understanding that everything in our experience is the expression of a greater reality, personified as the Divine Mother.