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Author : Swami Parmeshwaranand
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : 8176250880
Author : Swami Parmeshwaranand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:313488751
Author : Swami Parmeshwaranand
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8176252263
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : UOM:39015052863704
Author : Ramesh Chopra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8182052033
The present publication is an up-to-date, authentic and comprehensive dictionary of religion, which recognises that religion is a field in its own right and with its own language. It aims to provide clear, concise, and correct definitions and descriptions of the terms used in all world religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Shintoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Animism and so on. This work is designed to be a comprehensive reference tool for researchers, students, religious practitioners and all who are interested in religions and religious practices. It is earnestly hoped that it will be an authoritative source to which one can turn with confidence for meaning and knowledge of the common and specialised terms used in world religions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:314267850
Author : Jon Fergus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1541304071
The present Index of Sanskrit Terms applies to the single-volume unabridged edition (978-1541294714) of the Vedas (Rig, White and Black Yajur, Sama and Atharva). Dictionary definitions are drawn from "A Sanskrit-English Dictionary" by M. Monier-Williams (1899). Four of the translations in the main volume are from Ralph Griffith, with the remaining (black yajur) from Arthur Keith. The texts have been proofed and all Sanskrit terms updated and synced between versions.From the foreword to the main volume: The Vedas (from the root vid, "to know," or "divine knowledge") are the most ancient of all the Hindu scriptures. There were originally three Vedas-the Laws of Manu always speaks of the three, as do the oldest (Mukhya) Upanishads-but a later work called the Atharvaveda has been added to these, to now constitute the fourth. The name Rigveda signifies "Veda of verses," from rig, a spoken stanza; Samaveda, the "Veda of chants," from saman, a song or chant; Yajurveda, the "Veda of sacrificial formulas," from yajus, a sacrificial text. The Atharvaveda derives its name from the sage Atharvan, who is represented as a Prajapati, the edlest son of Brahma, and who is said to have been the first to institute the fire-sacrifices. The complex nature of the Vedas and the array of texts associated with them may be briefly outlined as follows: "The Rig-Veda is the original work, the Yajur-Veda and Sama-Veda in their mantric portions are different arrangements of its hymns for special purposes. The Vedas are divided into two parts, the Mantra and Brahmana. The Mantra part is composed of suktas (hymns in verse); the Brahmana part consists of liturgical, ritualistic, exegetical, and mystic treatises in prose. The Mantra or verse portion is considered more ancient than the prose works; and the books in which the hymns are collected are called samhitas (collections). More or less closely connected with the Brahmanans (and in a few exceptional cases with the Mantra part) are two classes of treatises in prose and verse called Aranyaka and Upanishad. The Vedic writings are again divided into two great divisions, exoteric and esoteric, the former called the karma-kanda (the section of works) and the latter the jnana-kanda (section of wisdom)." (Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary) The great antiquity of the Vedas is sufficiently proven by the fact that they are written in such an ancient form of Sanskrit, so different from the Sanskrit now used, that there is no other work like them in the literature of this "eldest sister" of all the known languages, as Prof. Max Muller calls it. Only the most learned of the Brahman Pundits can read the Vedas in their original. Furthermore, the Vedas cannot be viewed as singular works by singular authors, but rather as compilations, assembled over a great and unknown period of time. "Almost every hymn or division of a Veda is ascribed to various authors. It is generally believed that these subdivisions were revealed orally to the rishis or sages whose respective names they bear; hence the body of the Veda is known as sruti (what was heard) or divine revelation. The very names of these Vedic sages, such as Vasishtha, Visvamitra, and Narada, all of which belong to men born in far distant ages, shows that millennia must have elapsed between the different dates of their composition." (Encyclopedic Theosophical Glossary) It is generally agreed that the Vedas were finally arranged and compiled around fourteen centuries before our era; but this interferes in no way with their great antiquity, as they are acknowledged to have been long taught and passed down orally, perhaps for thousands of years, perhaps for far longer, before being finally compiled and recorded (the latter is traditionally said to have occurred on the shores of Lake Manasarovara, beyond the Himalayas).
Author : Shyama Kumar Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Advaita
ISBN : 8176252220
Study on SarirakamimamĐsabhasĐya by Sankaracarya.
Author : Anders Kaliff,Terje Oestigaard
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443891806
Death matters and the matters of death are initially, and to a large extent, the decaying flesh of the corpse. Cremation as a ritual practice is the fastest and most optimal way of dissolving the corpse’s flesh, either by annihilation or purification, or a combination. Still, cremation was not the final rite, and the archaeological record testifies that the dead represented a means to other ends – the flesh, and not the least the bones – have been incorporated in a wide range of other ritual contexts. While human sacrifices and cannibalism as ritual phenomena are much discussed in anthropology, archaeology has an advantage, since the actual bone material leaves traces of ritual practices that are unseen and unheard of in the contemporary world. As such, this book fleshes out a broader and more coherent understanding of prehistoric religions and funeral practices in Scandinavia by focusing on cremation, corpses and cannibalism.
Author : Rajiv Malhotra,Satyanarayana Dasa Babaji
Publisher : Manjul Publishing
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789390085484
Sanskrit Non-Translatables is a path-breaking and audacious attempt at Sanskritizing the English language and enriching it with powerful Sanskrit words. It continues the original and innovative idea of nontranslatability of Sanskrit, first introduced in the book, Being Different. For English readers, this should be the starting point of the movement to resist the digestion of Sanskrit into English, by introducing loanwords into their English vocabulary without translation. The book presents a thorough mechanism of the process of digestion and examines the loss of adhikara for Sanskrit because of translating its core ideas into English. The movement launched by this book will resist this and stop the programs that seek to turn Sanskrit into a dead language by translating all its treasures to render it redundant. It discusses fifty-four non-translatables across various genres that are being commonly mistranslated. It empowers English speakers with the knowledge and arguments to introduce these Sanskrit words into their daily speech with confidence. Every lover of India’s sanskriti will benefit from the book and become a cultural ambassador propagating it through routine communications.
Author : Panikkar, Raimon
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608336883
Author : Timothy Insoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1135 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199232444
A comprehensive overview, by period and region, of the archaeology of ritual and religion. The coverage is global, and extends from the earliest prehistory to modern times. Written by over sixty renowned specialists, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will also stimulate further research.
Author : T.D. Kokoszka
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803412863
T.D. Kokoszka grew up in Texas with a Jewish mother and a Polish-American father. While he was aware of roots going back to Eastern Europe from both families, he found it hard to learn very much about them. He knew that Polish people would whack one another with palm leaves around Easter, and he knew that his great-grandmother purportedly believed in forest spirits known as borowy. However, it wasn't until he was in his teens that he became vaguely aware of an ancient people known as the Slavs who gave rise to the Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Slovakian, Slovene, and Czech languages. It quickly became clear to him that this was a family of cultures currently under-represented in popular culture, and even in western scholarship. Not simply a regurgitation of scholarship from the Soviet period - and presenting new analyses by using previously neglected resources - Bogowie: A Study of Eastern Europe's Ancient Gods offers one of the most painstaking scholarly reconstructions of Slavic paganism. These new resources include not only an overview of folklore from many different Slavic countries but also comparisons with Ossetian culture and Mordvin culture, as well as a series of Slavic folktales that Kokoszka analyzes in depth, often making the case that the narratives involved are mythological and shockingly ancient. Readers will recognize many European folktale types and possibly learn to look at these folktales differently after reading this book.
Author : Swami Parmeshwaranand
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8176251488
Author : Georg Feuerstein
Publisher : Paragon House Publishers
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : UOM:49015002842376
Covering both Yoga's metaphysical and practical dimensions, words, expressions, technical terms and concepts--from profiles of the great Yogic sages to the levels of ecstasy in tantric Yoga--are defined. Several essay-length entries provide substantial introductions to Yogic history, literature and thought, along with quotes from scriptures. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
