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Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120820282
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8120820282
Author : A. K. Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015058961494
Author : A. K. Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015066056493
Author : A. K. Warder
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : 8120820282
This volume on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries starts with Vidyakara`s retrospect over anonymous poets (named ones having mostly found their places in earlier volumes). After some smaller anthologies a few novels and Mankhaka`s mythological epic we come to a historical epic. History is the most substantial source of matter for literature in the volume. That might seem to contrast with Vol. Vi, but as literature its aim is always are, not facts which narrows the gap.
Author : Christopher R. Austin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190054137
This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a young man in mid-adolescence, Pradyumna is both a handsome double of his demon-slaying father and the rebirth of Kamadeva, the God of Love. Sanskrit epic, puranic, and kavya narratives of the 300-1300 CE period celebrate Pradyumna's sexual potency, mastery of illusory subterfuges, and military prowess in supporting the work of his avatara father. These materials reflect the values of an evolving Brahminical and Vaisnava tradition that was deeply invested in the imperatives of family, patrilines, the violent but necessary defense of the social and cosmic order, and the celebration of beauty and desire as a means to the divine. Pradyumna's evolving narratives, almost completely absent from existing studies of Hindu mythology, provide a point of access to the development of Krsna bhakti and Vaisnava theism more broadly. Conversely, Jain sources cast Pradyumna as an exemplary figure through whom a pointed rejection of these values can be articulated, even while sharing certain of their elementary premises. Pradyumna: Lover, Magician, and Scion of the Avatara assembles these narratives, presents key Sanskrit materials in translation and summary form, and articulates the social, gender, and religious values encoded in them. Most importantly, the study argues that Pradyumna's signature two-handed maneuver--the audacious appropriation of a feminine partner, enabled by the emasculating destruction of her demonic male protector--communicates a persistent fantasy of male power expressed in the language of a mutually implicating sex and violence.
Author : Allen Speight
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401793490
This notable collection provides an interdisciplinary platform for prominent thinkers who have all made significant recent contributions to exploring the nexus of philosophy and narrative. It includes the latest assessments of several key positions in the current philosophical debate. These perspectives underpin a range of thematic strands exploring the influence of narrative on notions of selfhood, identity, temporal experience, and the emotions, among others. Drawing from the humanities, literature, history and religious studies, as well as philosophy, the volume opens with papers on narrative intelligence and the relationship between narrative and agency. It features special sections of in-depth commentary on a range of topics. How, for example, do narrative and philosophical biography interact? Do celebrated biographical and autobiographical accounts of the lives of philosophers contribute to our understanding of their work? This new volume has a substantive remit that incorporates the intercultural religious view of philosophy’s links to narrative together with its many secular aspects. A valuable new resource for more advanced scholars in all its constituent disciplines, it represents a significant addition to the literature of this richly productive area of research.
Author : Heleene De Jonckheere,Marie-Hélène Gorisse,Agnieszka Rostalska
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789252859
This volume is the outcome of the Ninth International Indology Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017, the fifth publication of proceedings from this series of symposiums. Like previous volumes, the current edition presents the results of recent research by early-career scholars into the texts, languages, as well as literary, philosophical and religious traditions of South Asia. The articles here collected offer a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on a wide array of subject. In addition, in the lines of the well-established tradition of research in Jainism at Ghent University, this edition has a more specific “Jains and the others” main theme. The purpose of such a theme is to contribute to determine the input of Jainism in the broader framework of South Asian traditions, as well as to invite the reader to think beyond boundaries of religious or cultural identity. In this dynamic, two papers deal with Jain adaptations of famous Puranic narratives and two others with the relation between textual tradition and soteriological practices in Jainism. In concert, other innovative papers elaborate on Puranic and k?vya literature, include technical discussions on linguistics and engage in philosophical studies. Finally, set in the historical context of the hosting institution, this volume opens with a history of Indology in Belgium.
Author : Anya H. King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004336315
Scent from the Garden of Paradise: Musk and the Medieval Islamic World traces the history of musk from ancient Asia to the early medieval Islamic world and examines the important role musk played in perfumery and medicine in this new context.
Author : Gregory M. Clines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000584141
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors to create and express novel visions of moral personhood. In making this argument, the book examines three versions of the Rāma story composed by two authors, separated in time and space by over 800 years and thousands of miles. The first is Raviṣeṇa, who composed the Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa (“The Deeds of Padma”), and the second is Brahma Jinadāsa, author of both a Sanskrit Padmapurāṇa and a vernacular (bhāṣā) version of the story titled Rām Rās (“The Story of Rām”). While the three compositions narrate the same basic story and work to shape ethical subjects, they do so in different ways and with different visions of what a moral person actually is. A close comparative reading focused on the differences between these three texts reveals the diverse visions of moral personhood held by Jains in premodernity and demonstrates the innovative narrative strategies authors utilized in order to actualize those visions. The book is thus a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia.
Author : Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000032901
This is the first book fully dedicated to Indian philosophical doxography. It examines the function such dialectical texts were intended to serve in the intellectual and religious life of their public. It looks at Indian doxography both as a witness of inter- and intra-sectarian dialogues and as a religious phenomenon. It argues that doxographies represent dialectical exercises, indicative of a peculiar religious attitude to plurality, and locate these ‘exercises’ within a known form of ‘yoga’ dedicated to the cultivation of ‘knowledge’ or ‘gnosis’ (jñāna). Concretely, the book presents a critical examination of three Sanskrit doxographies: the Madhyamakahṛdayakārikā of the Buddhist Bhāviveka, the Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya of the Jain Haribhadra, and the Sarvasiddhāntasaṅgraha attributed to the Advaitin Śaṅkara, focusing on each of their respective presentation of the Mīmāṃsā view. It is the first time that the genre of doxography is considered beyond its literary format to ponder its performative dimension, as a spiritual exercise. Theoretically broad, the book reaches out to academics in religious studies, Indian philosophy, Indology, and classical studies.
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : LCCN:72908959
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 916 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : 8120804503
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : East Asia
ISBN : IND:30000116386750
Author : Anthony Kennedy Warder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Indic poetry
ISBN : OCLC:27964864