Author: VeṅkaṭanāthaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu devotional literature, Sanskrit
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Hymn on the doctrine of self-surrender.
Nyaasa Vimsati of Vedanta Desika
Author: VeṅkaṭanāthaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu devotional literature, Sanskrit
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Hymn on the doctrine of self-surrender.
Historical Dictionary of the Tamils
Author: Vijaya Ramaswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru UniversityPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810864452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The cultural heritage of the Tamils dates back two thousand years. As a language, Tamil has existed since the pre-Christian era, around the same time as the early classical languages Hebrew and Sankrit. The first book on Tamil grammar, the Tolkappiyam, was written around the fifth century BCE. Today, Tamil cuisine has captured the imagination of the vegetarian world, and Tamil cinema, with its heavy political allegories and opera style music, is popular across the globe. Not confined to their homeland of Tamil Nadu, the Tamils constitute a powerful diaspora in Sri Lanka (where they are fighting for their political rights), Singapore (where Tamil is one of the national languages), and Malaysia. The diaspora extends to places as far flung as the U.K., the U.S., and Australia. Tamil temples and cultural centers can be found everywhere from Pittsburgh to San Francisco and from Texas to Toronto. The Historical Dictionary of the Tamils presents a vivid picture of the Tamils' cultural and literary traditions, both the historic past and the vibrant present. This is done through a list of acronyms and abbreviations, a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, black and white photos, maps, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries covering Tamil history from the megalithic age to present day and Tamil personalities, economics, literature, music, politics, and cinema. This one-volume reference is an excellent entry point into a deeper understanding of the cultural milieu of the Tamils.
Sruti
Author: An Ornament for Jewels
Author: Steven P. HopkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198043724
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In this companion volume to Singing the Body of God (Oxford 2002), Steven P. Hopkins has translated into contemporary American English verse poems written by the South Indian Srivaisnava philosopher and saint-poet Venkatesa (c. 1268-1369). These poems, in three different languages - Sanskrit, Tamil, and Maharastri Prakrit -- composed for one particular Hindu god, Vishnu Devanayaka, the "Lord of Gods" at Tiruvahindrapuram, form a microcosm of the saint-poet's work. They encompass major themes of Venkatesa's devotional poetics, from the play of divine absence and presence in the world of religious emotions; the "telescoping" of time past and future in the eternal "present" of the poem; love, human vulnerability and the impassible perfected body of god; to the devotional experience of a "beauty that saves" and to what Hopkins terms the paradoxical coexistence of asymmetry and intimacy of lover and beloved at the heart of the divine-human encounter. Moreover, these poems form not only a thematic microcosm, but a linguistic one embracing all three of the poet's working languages. Like the remembered world of Proust's Combray in the taste of madeleine dipped in tea, or Blake's World in a Grain of Sand, we taste and see, in this one particular place, and in this one particular form of Vishnu, various protean forms and powers of the divine, and trace a veritable summa of theological, philosophical, and literary designs. Each translated poem forms a chapter in itself, has its own individual short Afterword, along with detailed linguistic and thematic notes and commentary. The volume concludes, for comparative reasons, with a translation of Tirumankaiyalvar's luminous cycle of verses for Devanayaka from the Periyatirumoli. As much an argument as an anthology, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian studies, comparative religion, and Indian literatures.
Vacan̲a Pūṣaṇam
Author: J. RangaswamiPublisher:
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Category : Śrī Vaishnạva (Sect)
Languages : en
Pages : 826
Book Description
Containing the entire philosophy of Ten̲kalai Vaiṣṇava School (Zvelebil)
The Vedanta Kesari
Author: The Life and Works of Sri Nigamanta Maha Desikan
Author: Appaswamy Srinivasa RaghavanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
On VenkatĐanatha, 1268-1369, Sanskrit and Tamil poet and philosopher.
Devanayaka Panchasat of Vedanta Desika [i.e. Veṅkaṭanātha]
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Author: VeṅkaṭanāthaPublisher:
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Category : Vishnu (Hindu deity)
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Hymns in praise of Devanātha, form of the Hindu deity Vishnu, enshrined at Tiruvahindrapuram, Tamil Nadu.
Souvenir
Author: Music Academy (Chennai, India)Publisher:
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Category : Carnatic music
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the India Office: pt. 1. Sanskrit books, by P. Natha and J. B. Chaudhurl. section 1. A-G. section 2. H-Kr̥s̥n̥ḁ-Li̊lāmr̥ta. section 3. Kr̥s̥ḁ̣-līlāmr̥ta-R. section 4. S-Z
Author: Great Britain. India Office. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1026
Book Description