Download or read book Querying the Medieval written by Ronald Inden and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers--"Orientalists"--and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious nationalists to identify Hinduism as the essence of national identity in India and Buddhism as the essence of nationality in Sri Lanka.

Download or read book The Betrayal of Krishna written by Krishna Chaitanya and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Body of God written by D Dennis Hudson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the crowning achievement of the remarkable scholar D. Dennis Hudson, bringing together the results of a lifetime of interdisciplinary study of south Indian Hinduism. The book is a finely detailed examination of a virtually unstudied Tamil Hindu temple, the Vaikuntha Perumal (ca. 770 C.E.). Hudson offers a sustained reading of the temple as a coherent, organized, minutely conceptualized mandala. Its iconography and structure can be understood in the light of a ten-stanza poem by the Alvar poet Tirumangai, and of the Bhagavata Purana and other major religious texts, even as it in turn illuminates the meanings of those texts. Hudson takes the reader step by step on a tour of the temple, telling the stories suggested by each of the 56 sculpted panels and showing how their relationship to one another brings out layers of meaning. He correlates the stories with stages in the spiritual growth of the king through the complex rituals that formed a crucial dimension of the religion. The result is a tapestry of interpretation that brings to life the richness of spiritual understanding embodied in the temple. Hudson's underlying assumption is that the temple itself constitutes a summa theologica for the Pancharatra doctrines in the Bhagavata tradition centered on Krishna as it had developed through the eighth century. This tradition was already ancient and had spread widely across South Asia and into Southeast Asia. By interweaving history with artistic, liturgical, and textual interpretation, Hudson makes a remarkable contribution to our understanding of an Indian religious and cultural tradition.

Download or read book Selected Studies on Ritual in the Indian Religions written by Kloppenborg and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Ria Kloppenborg -- Introduction /Ria Kloppenborg -- The Concluding Bath of the Varunapraghāsa /Jan Gonda -- The Fourth Priest (The Brahmán) in Vedic Ritual /Henk W. Bodewitz -- The Changing Pattern of Pāñcarātra Initiation: A Case Study in the Reinterpretation of Ritual /Sanjukta Gupta -- Some Beliefs and Rituals Concerning Time and Death in the Kubjikāmata /Teun Goudriaan -- Protective Covering (Kavaca) /Karel R. van Kooij -- Interpreting Fire-Walking /Kees W. Bolle -- A Magic Kĕris from Kalimantan /Jan A. Schoterman -- The Earliest Buddhist Ritual of Ordination /Ria Kloppenborg -- Spells on the Life-Wood. An Introduction to the Tibetan Buddhist Ceremony of Consecration /Losang Paldhen Gyalzur and Antony H.N. Verwey -- Index of Ritual Terms /Ria Kloppenborg -- Notes on Authors /Ria Kloppenborg -- Bibliography D.J. Hoens /Ria Kloppenborg.

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary written by Theodor Benfey and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1998 with total page 1166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most Comprehensive And Detailed Sanskrit-English Dictionary Ever To Be Published. A Classic.

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Download or read book Arjuna in the Mahabharata written by Ruth Cecily Katz and published by Motilal Banarsidass. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a work of unusual breadth and depth that will attract readers in religious studies, comparative literature, Sanskrit, Asian studies and humanities in general. The book is a thorough study of the great Indian hero, the Achilles of India, Arjuna, as portrayed in the epic poem Mahabharata, including its world-famous subsection, the Bhagavadgita. Different aspects of Arjuna's Character has been discussed.

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Download or read book Vai avism aivism and Minor Religious Systems written by Ramkrishna Gopal Bhandarkar and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1987 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Triumph of the Goddess written by Cheever Mackenzie Brown and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors of the Devī-Bhāgavata Purāna endeavored to demonstrate the superiority of the Devī over competing masculine deities, and to articulate in new ways the manifold nature of the Goddess. Brown's book sets out to examine how the Purana pursues these ends. The Devī-Bhāgavata employs many ancient myths and motifs from older masculine theologies, incorporating them into a thoroughly "feminized" theological framework. The text also seeks to supplant older "masculine" canonical authorities. Part I of Brown's study explores these strategies by focusing on the Purana's self-conscious endeavor to supersede the famous VaisBhagavata Purana. The Devī-Bhāgavata also re-envisions older mythological traditions about the Goddess, especially those in the first great Sanskritic glorification of the Goddess, the Devi-Mahatmya. Brown shows in Part II how this re-envisioning process transforms the Devī from a primarily martial and erotic goddess into the World-Mother of infinite compassion. Part III examines the Devi Gita, the philosophical climax of the Purana modeled upon the Bhagavad Gita. The Devi Gita, while affirming that ultimate reality is the divine Mother, avows that her highest form as consciousness encompasses all gender, thereby suggesting the final triumph of the Goddess. It is not simply that She is superior to the male gods, but rather that She transcends Her own sexuality without denying it.

Download or read book Hindu Gods And Heroes written by Lionel D. Barnett and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Philosophy of Pancharatra Advaitic Approach written by Siddheswar Rameshwar Bhatt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Universal Prayers written by Swami Yatiswarananda and published by Sri Ramakrishna Math. This book was released on 2022-05-06 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy little book is a storehouse of choicest hymns and prayers of universal appeal culled from the Vedas, the Puranas, and other sources. These hymns and prayers are expressive of the deep spiritual longings and realisations of the Hindu seers. The compilation and English translation is by Swami Yatiswarananda, one among the foremost disciples of Swami Brahmananda and a former Vice-President of the Ramakrishna Order. The masterly introduction by Swami Yatiswarananda guides those who wish to know why to pray and what to pray for. It also deals with the historical and psychological development of the hymns.

Download or read book House of God written by N. S. Ramaswami and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: