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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona
Author: Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Poona
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
With 1918/20-1921/22 are bound Its Report. 1918/19-1921/22.
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
With 1918/20-1921/22 are bound Its Report. 1918/19-1921/22.
Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute
Author: Philology and Criticism
Author: Vishwa AdluriPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783085789
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Philology and Criticism contrasts the Mahābhārata’s preservation and transmission within the Indian scribal and commentarial traditions with Sanskrit philology after 1900, as German Indologists proposed a critical edition of the Mahābhārata to validate their racial and nationalist views. Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee show how, in contrast to the Indologists’ unscientific theories, V. S. Sukthankar assimilated the principles of neo-Lachmannian textual criticism to defend the transmitted text and its traditional reception as a work of law, philosophy and salvation. The authors demonstrate why, after the edition’s completion, no justification exists for claiming that an earlier heroic epic existed, that the Brahmans redacted the heroic epic to produce the Mahābhārata or that they interpolated “sectarian” gods such as Vis.n.u and Śiva into the work. By demonstrating how the Indologists committed technical errors, cited flawed and biased scholarship and used circular argumentation to validate their racist and anti-Semitic theories, Philology and Criticism frees readers to approach the Mahābhārata as “the principal monument of bhakti” (Madeleine Biardeau). The authoritative guide to the critical edition’s correct use and interpretation, Philology and Criticism urges South Asianists to view Hinduism as a complex debate about ontology and ethics rather than through the lenses of “Brahmanism” and “sectarianism.” It launches a new world philology—one that is plural and self-reflexive rather than Eurocentric and ahistorical.
The Doctrine of Karma
Author: Y. KrishanPublisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
ISBN: 9788120812338
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
ABOUT THE BOOK:Here is a work that deals with the Doctrine of Karma in all its coMprehensiveness and covers all its conceiveable facets in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Essentially the approach is historical. It traces the genesis of the doctrine in
Shivaji
Author: James W. LainePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199726434
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces the origin and development if the Shivaji legend from the earliest sources to the contemporary accounts of the tale. His primary concern is to discover the meaning of Shivaji's life for those who have composed-and those who have read-the legendary accounts of his military victories, his daring escapes, his relationships with saints. In the process, he paints a new and more complex picture of Hindu-Muslim relations from the seventeenth century to the present. He argues that this relationship involved a variety of compromises and strategies, from conflict to accommodation to nuanced collaboration. Neither Muslims nor Hindus formed clearly defined communities, says Laine, and they did not relate to each other as opposed monolithic groups. Different sub-groups, representing a range of religious persuasions, found it in their advantage to accentuate or diminish the importance of Hindu and Muslim identity and the ideologies that supported the construction of such identities. By studying the evolution of the Shivaji legend, Laine demonstrates, we can trace the development of such constructions in both pre-British and post-colonial periods.
Annals of the Bhandarkar Institute
Author: Bhandarkar Oriental Research InstitutePublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
The =Aśrama System
Author: Patrick OlivellePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195344782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--=aśrama and var.na--=aśrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the =aśrama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other institutional and doctrinal aspects of the Brahmanical world and its position within Brahmanical theology, and assesses its significance within the history of Indian religion. Throughout, he argues that the =aśrama system is primarily a theological construct and that the system and its history should be carefully distinguished from the socio-religious institutions comprehended by the system and from their respective histories.