Download or read book Philosophy of Peninsular India written by H. V. VISWESWARAN and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any book on INDIAN PHILOSOPHY or INDOLOGY, deals mainly with the Vedas, Bhagavat Gita (Gita), Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata ,Buddhism, Jainism and other 'orthodox-systems'. All of them are: Topics based on the Northern part of India - Sanskritic/Vedic. The authors of such books , perhaps, took it for granted that the ancient Indian thinkers had no other approach in interpreting the life of the humans. The rich civilization of the Tamils, the inhabitants of the land from time immemorial, and their matured thinking on human life is not considered as Indian philosophy or philosophy. thirukkuRaL (kuRaL) , PHILOSOPHY OF PENINSULAR INDIA. is a compendium of many things pertaining to human values and thought. They are brief and precise, well written without any vagueness or confusion either in meaning or syntax. The verses are direct in their concept and clear in their meaning. The classic kuRaL is a book that does not deal with any speculative concepts, as found in the Upanishads . Speculation gives raise to multiple interpretations and the possible conflicts. They ultimately divide the society they intend to enrich. The vagueness and speculative character encourages people with vested interests to meddle with the text by inserting passages. kuRaL is written in three parts. Part1. aRam, virtue, part 2. poruL, wealth, and part 3. kaamam, love. In the third part Kaamathup-paal. of kuRaL, the poet tells about two stages through which a young boy and girl unite in wedlock. The first stage is when the boy and girl start meeting without the knowledge of elders. It is called kaLavu. . The dating stage - Dravidian style. Later they enter into wedlock - a stage called karpu - when they marry and start living together and raise a family. The marriages are love marriages. Then it was an accepted form of marriage. So we see a well structured society with freedom for men and women. The verses of kuRaL brings out a picture of a sophisticated , matured society that was the Dravidian Tamils , thousands of years ago. kuRaL is dated around 200 BC . So we can safely conclude that the Tamil society was well advanced , as depicted in the verses of kuRaL, many centuries earlier than kural. Kural, a book which is perfectly relevant even to-day after 2000 years and more, must be taken into account to understand the perfection the society might have attained earlier than 2000 years. Such an evolved society in a remote antiquity shows that their culture has thrived in that state for many centuries prior to these works. A work of grammar is attempted only after the literature matures. kuRaL has to be taken in the group of grammar as it is a compendium of good practices prevailed in the region and followed by the people and explains the meaning of life in short couplets. The works of Tamil scholars of those earlier periods are lost either due to sea upheaval which entered the land and destroyed or due to wanton destruction by people who were jealous. Had the previous works were available, the Dravidian culture, its glory and perfection might have been established with much more authority and may be dated back to few more millennial earlier. In this book we discuss the part 1 of kuRaL, aRam (virtue). It is the philosophic part of the book. It explains the meaning and purpose of life. The discussion and explanation in kuRaL are realistic without any speculative thinking. So it appeals to an universal audience; acceptable to all religions, nationalities and ages. This fact is seen by the fact that the book survives all these thousands of years and still current. It is translated into almost all languages of the world.
Download or read book A Source Book in Indian Philosophy written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here are the chief riches of more than 3,000 years of Indian philosophical thought-the ancient Vedas, the Upanisads, the epics, the treatises of the heterodox and orthodox systems, the commentaries of the scholastic period, and the contemporary writings. Introductions and interpretive commentaries are provided.
Download or read book Revival Contemporary Indian Philosophy 1936 written by S. Radhakrishnan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book includes essay which are all written by philosophers of or about forty -five years of age. They fall into two main groups: those in which the writer devotes himself chiefly to the exposition of the great Vedic tradition as he has apprehended it and made it the basis of his own life’s work; and those in which the writer, while on the whole remining true to the spirit of that tradition, has sought to give new interpretations of it, either by instituting comparisons of it with the Western doctrines most closely allied to it or by treating of modern problems in a way which, though suggested by what he has learned from the West, is yet stamped with the mark of his own racial sympathy. Western readers will naturally find the latter group more attractive; but this volume will have failed of its purpose if it does not give them some sense of the truth that underlies even the essays with which, owing to the presuppositions ion which these are founded, they find themselves least in sympathy.
Download or read book A History of Indian Philosophy written by Surendranath Dasgupta and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The old civilisation of India was a concrete unity of many-sided developments in art, architecture, literature, religion, morals, and science so far as it was understood in those days. But the most important achievement of Indian thought was philosophy. It was regarded as the goal of all the highest practical and theoretical activities, and it indicated the point of unity amidst all the apparent diversities which the complex growth of culture over a vast area inhabited by different peoples produced. It is not in the history of foreign invasions, in the rise of independent kingdoms at different times, in the empires of this or that great monarch that the unity of India is to be sought. It is essentially one of spiritual aspirations and obedience to the law of the spirit, which were regarded as superior to everything else, and it has outlived all the political changes through which India passed. The Greeks, the Huns, the Scythians, the Pathans and the Moguls who occupied the land and controlled the political machinery never ruled the minds of the people, for these political events were like hurricanes or the changes of season, mere phenomena of a natural or physical order which never affected the spiritual integrity of Hindu culture. If after a passivity of some centuries India is again going to become creative it is mainly on account of this fundamental unity of her progress and civilisation and not for anything that she may borrow from other countries. It is therefore indispensably necessary for all those who wish to appreciate the significance and potentialities of Indian culture that they should properly understand the history of Indian philosophical thought which is the nucleus round which all that is best and highest in India has grown. Much harm has already been done by the circulation of opinions that the culture and philosophy of India was dreamy and abstract.
Download or read book Temple Imagery from Early Mediaeval Peninsular India written by Archana Verma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing the ways in which ideas of heroic discourse and the socio-religious and political needs of the period moulded iconography, this book explores the evolution of the iconography of the early mediaeval Hindu temples of the Indian peninsula, over the course of the sixth-twelfth centuries C.E. In order to study the socio-religious and political atmosphere in which the early mediaeval temple iconography grew and developed its specific forms, the author makes use of the inscriptions, archaeological and the literary materials ranging from the fourth centuries B.C.E. to the thirteenth century C.E., as these give an idea of the continuities and discontinuities in the ideas of heroic and political discourses which lie at the back of the visual art forms that they created. Of particular interest are the royal charters, issued in Sanskrit and Tamil, the religious narratives from the Sanskrit epics and the Puranas, iconographic canons that form a part of the religious texts known as the Agamas, written in Sanskrit, the court literature of the early mediaeval period and the early historical Sangam Tamil literature, apart from the archaeological material from the Indian peninsula. The author focuses particularly on exploring the ideas of power current in the society that created the narrative iconography of the period and the region studied.
Download or read book The Philosophy of K Satchidananda Murty written by Sibajiban Bhattacharyya and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles presented at a seminar held on Oct. 1992.
Download or read book Indian Philosophy written by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosophical Traditions of India written by Poolla Tirupati Raju and published by [Pittsburgh] : University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Indian Thought written by Vishwanath S. Naravane and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the fundamental ideas of Indian thinkers that have shaped the mind of Indian from 1770 to the post-modern era in the middle of 20th century in India. Lists the most Indian influential figures in the field of philosophy, political theory, activicism such as Rabindranath Tagore, Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.
Download or read book Philosophical Reflections written by G. C. Nayak and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Indic philosophy, with reference to topics in Buddhism and Vedanta; articles.
Download or read book Outlines of Indian Philosophy written by Mysore Hiriyanna and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy written by N. D. Rajadhyaksha and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy written by F. Max Müller and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy It is not without serious misgivings that I venture at this late hour of life to place before my fellow-workers and all who are interested in the growth of philosophical thought throughout the world some of the notes on the Six Systems of Indian Philosophy which have accumulated in my note-books for many years. It was as early as 1852 that I published my first contributions to the study of Indian philosophy in the Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft. My other occupations, however, and, more particularly, my preparations for a complete edition of the Rig-Veda, and its voluminous commentary, did not allow me at that time to continue these contributions, though my interest in Indian philosophy, as a most important part of the literature of India and of Universal Philosophy, has always remained the same. This interest was kindled afresh when I had to finish for the Sacred Books of the East (vols. I and Xv) my translation of the Upanishads, the remote sources of Indian philosophy, and especially of the Vedanta-philosophy, a system in which human speculation seems to me to have reached its very acme. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Classical Indian Philosophy written by Peter Adamson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adamson and Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They guide us through such famous works as the Vedas and the Upanisads, and tell the stories of how Buddhism and Jainism developed. Anyone curious about South Asian philosophy can start here.
Download or read book Popular Essays in Indian Philosophy written by Mysore Hiriyanna and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Philosophy in India written by K. Satchidananda Murty and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Inner Teachings of the Philosophies and Religions of India written by Yogi Ramacharaka and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of tribal poems of Orissa; includes a critical note.
