Ksitisavamsavalicaritam
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Author |
: Unesco |
Publisher |
: UNESCO |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 1984 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015010974056 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Islamic Heritage of Bengal by : Unesco
Author |
: Diana L. Eck |
Publisher |
: Knopf |
Total Pages |
: 382 |
Release |
: 2013-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307832955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307832953 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Banaras by : Diana L. Eck
The sacred city of Banāras on the River Ganges is one of the oldest living cities in the world—as old as Jerusalem, Athens, and Peking. It is the place where Shiva, the Lord of All, is said to have made his permanent home since the dawn of creation. There are few cities in India as traditionally Hindu and as symbolic of the whole of Hindu culture as Banāras. In this eloquent, finely observed study, Diana Eck shows how the city over the centuries has become a lens through which the Hindu vision of the world is precisely focused. She reveals the spiritual and historical resonance of this holy place where great sages such as the Buddha and Shankara were taught, where ashrams, palaces, and universities were built, where God has been imagined and imagined in a thousand ways. She describes the rites of its temples, the busy life of its riverfront, and the exuberance of its festivals. She tells how people travel from all over India to Banāras for the privilege of dying a good death here, for they believe that on the banks of the River Ganges where “the atmosphere of devotion is improbable in its strength,” it is possible to be released from the earthly round forever. In her account of the sacred history, geography, and art of the city, its elaborate and thriving rituals, its myths and literature, and its importance to pilgrims and seekers, Diana Eck uses her wealth of scholarship to make the Hindu tradition come powerfully alive so that we come to understand the meaning of this sacred city to the millions of believers who have been coming here for over 2,500 years.
Author |
: J. C. Heesterman |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 1993-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0226323013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780226323015 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Broken World of Sacrifice by : J. C. Heesterman
In this book, J. C. Heesterman attempts to understand the origins and nature of Vedic sacrifice—the complex compound of ritual practices that stood at the center of ancient Indian religion. Paying close attention to anomalous elements within both the Vedic ritual texts, the brahmanas, and the ritual manuals, the srautasutras, Heesterman reconstructs the ideal sacrifice as consisting of four moments: killing, destruction, feasting, and contest. He shows that Vedic sacrifice all but exclusively stressed the offering in the fire—the element of destruction—at the expense of the other elements. Notably, the contest was radically eliminated. At the same time sacrifice was withdrawn from society to become the sole concern of the individual sacrificer. The ritual turns in on the individual as "self-sacrificer" who realizes through the internalized knowledge of the ritual the immortal Self. At this point the sacrificial cult of the fire recedes behind doctrine of the atman's transcendence and unity with the cosmic principle, the brahman. Based on his intensive analysis Heesterman argues that Vedic sacrifice was primarily concerned with the broken world of the warrior and sacrificer. This world, already broken in itself by the violence of the sacrificial contest, was definitively broken up and replaced with the ritrualism of the single, unopposed sacrificer. However, the basic problem of sacrifice—the riddle of life and death—keeps breaking too surface in the form of incongruities, contradictions, tensions, and oppositions that have perplexed both the ancient ritual theorists and the modern scholar.
Author |
: India. Imperial Record Department |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1919 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B2879746 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calendar of Persian Correspondence by : India. Imperial Record Department
Author |
: Wilhelm Pertsch |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 168 |
Release |
: 1852 |
ISBN-10 |
: OXFORD:590572526 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Kṣitīśavaṃśāvalīcaritaṃ by : Wilhelm Pertsch
Author |
: Ranajit Guha |
Publisher |
: Orient Blackswan |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0861312899 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780861312894 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Rule of Property for Bengal by : Ranajit Guha
Author |
: David McCutchion |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0691040109 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780691040103 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Brick Temples of Bengal by : David McCutchion
The Description for this book, Brick Temples of Bengal: From the Archives of David McCutchion, will be forthcoming.
Author |
: Brian K. Smith |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 408 |
Release |
: 1994-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0195060547 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780195060546 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Classifying the Universe by : Brian K. Smith
This is a comprehensive examination of the 'varna' system - a classificatory scheme laid out in the classical Hindu Vedic literature and thought to underlie the concept of caste, which continues to exert a powerful and pervasive influence over Indian life.
Author |
: Shāhnavāz Khān Awrangābādī |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 636 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:B4301934 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Maāt̲h̲ir-ul-umarā by : Shāhnavāz Khān Awrangābādī
Author |
: Samaren Roy |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 2005-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780595342303 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0595342302 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Calcutta by : Samaren Roy
Calcutta, for whose slums and poverty many moan, has been a city swept by various imported ideas and vibrant with indigenous ones. In the process it has evolved into a creative center, especially in the fields of arts, thought, and science. Controversy is what the city has thrived upon, despite its multiplicity of problems. The book deals with some of the controversies and their contribution to contemporary society and culture. "...a very well informed account--highly perceptive--of intellectual trends and related changes in Calcutta." Robert J. Crane Ford-Maxwell Professor of South Asia History Syracuse University