Author : Bharata Muni
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Sanskrit drama
ISBN : UVA:X000740896
The Nāṭyasāstra
Bharata Muni
The Nāṭyasāstra
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World Theatre
E. J. Westlake
Author : E. J. Westlake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317561828
World Theatre by E. J. Westlake Pdf
World Theatre: The Basics presents a well-rounded introduction to non-Western theatre, exploring the history and current practice of theatrical traditions in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, the Caribbean, and the non-English-speaking cultures of the Americas. Featuring a selection of case studies and examples from each region, it helps the reader to understand the key issues surrounding world theatre scholarship and global, postcolonial, and transnational performance practices. An essential read for anyone seeking to learn more about world theatre, World Theatre: The Basics provides a clear, accessible roadmap for approaching non-Western theatre.
Movement and Mimesis
Mandakranta Bose
Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401135948
Movement and Mimesis by Mandakranta Bose Pdf
The most comprehensive view of the evolution of dancing in India is one that is derived from Sanskrit textual sources. These texts are the basic material that students of the dance in India must examine in order to uncover its past. Since the rebirth of informed interest in dancing in early twentieth century, its antiquity has been acknowledged but precisely what the art was in antiquity remains unclear. Discovering the oldest forms of dancing in India requires, as do other historical quests, a reconstruction of the past and, again as in other historical investigations, the primary sources of knowledge are records from the past. In this case the records are treatises and manuals in Sanskrit that discuss and describe dancing. These are the sources that the present work sets out to mine. These texts taken collectively are more than records of a particular state of the art. They testify to the growth of the theory and practice of the art and thus establish it as an evolving rather than a fixed art form that changed as much in response to its own expanding aesthetic boundaries as to parallel or complementary forms of dance, drama and music that impinged upon it as India's social and political situation changed. When we place the Sanskrit treatises in chronological sequence it becomes clear that the understanding of the art has changed through time, in its infancy as well as in maturer periods.
Sonic Liturgy
Guy L. Beck
Author : Guy L. Beck
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611171082
Sonic Liturgy by Guy L. Beck Pdf
Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, Sonic Theology: Hinduism and Sacred Sound, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the discussion of sound into the realm of Hindu ritual and musical traditions of worship. Beginning with the chanting of the Sama-Veda alongside the fire sacrifices of the ancient Indo-Aryans and with the classical Gandharva music as outlined in the musicological texts of Bharata and Dattila, Beck establishes a historical foundation for an in-depth understanding of the role of music in the early Puja rituals and Indian theater, in the vernacular poetry of the Bhakti movements, in medieval temple worship of Siva and Vishnu in southern India, and later in the worship of Krishna in the northern Braj region. By surveying a multitude of worship traditions, and drawing upon diverse sources in both Sanskrit and vernacular languages, Beck reveals a continuous template of interwoven ritual and music in Hindu tradition that he terms "sonic liturgy," a structure of religious worship and experience that incorporates sound and music on many levels. In developing the concept and methods for understanding the phenomenon of sonic liturgy, Beck draws from liturgical studies and ritual studies, broadening the dimensions of each, as well as from recent work in the fields of Indian religion and music. As he maps the evolution of sonic liturgy in Hindu culture, Beck shows how, parallel to the development of religious ritual from ancient times to the present, there is a less understood progression of musical form, beginning with Vedic chants of two to three notes to complicated genres of devotional temple music employing ragas with up to a dozen notes. Sonic liturgy in its maturity is manifest as a complex interactive worship experience of the Vaishnava sects, presented here in Beck's final chapters.
Utpaladeva
Raffaele Torella,Bettina Baumer
Author : Raffaele Torella,Bettina Baumer
Publisher : DK Printworld (P) Ltd
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788124610794
Utpaladeva by Raffaele Torella,Bettina Baumer Pdf
About the Author Raffaele Torella is Professor of Sanskrit at University of Rome “Sapienza”, where he has also taught for long Indian Philosophy and Religion, and Indology. Dr. Bettina Bäumer, Indologist from Austria and Professor of Religious Studies (Visiting Professor at several universities), living and working in Varanasi since 1967, is the author and editor of a number of books and over 50 research articles. Her main fields of research are non-dualistic Kashmir Śaivism, Indian aesthetics, temple architecture and religious traditions of Odisha, and comparative mysticism. She has been Coordinator of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Varanasi, and Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She has translated important Sanskrit texts into German and English. Dr. Bettina Bäumer, Indologist from Austria and Professor of Religious Studies (Visiting Professor at several universities), living and working in Varanasi since 1967, is the author and editor of a number of books and over 50 research articles. Her main fields of research are non-dualistic Kashmir Śaivism, Indian aesthetics, temple architecture and religious traditions of Odisha, and comparative mysticism. She has been Coordinator of the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Varanasi, and Fellow, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She has translated important Sanskrit texts into German and English. About the Book The book, which partly derives from the papers offered at the first International Seminar on Utpaladeva (IIAS, Shimla 2013), is the first ever attempt at presenting a comprehensive portrait of one of the most important philosophers of premodern India, so far mainly taken into account as a mere predecessor of the great Abhinavagupta. Recent studies by R. Torella and others have shown the central importance of Utpaladeva in the elaboration of the Pratyabhijñā philosophy, and reduced the role of Abhinavagupta to that of his brilliant commentator. The contributors to the present volume have shown the multifarious aspects of Utpaladeva, not only an outstanding metaphysician and epistemologist, engaged in a strenuous critical dialogue above all with the Buddhist logicians, but also one of the most extraordinary mystical poets of India. For the first time his contribution to poetics and aesthetics has been duly highlighted. The book contains two appendices with the critical edition and translation by R. Torella of fragments from Utpaladeva’s long commentary (Vivr̥ti) on his Īśvarapratyabhijñā-kārikā and Vr̥tti, one of the most important works of Indian philosophy as a whole, so far deemed to be totally lost. This book should generate great interest among scholars of Sanskrit and philosophy for its uniqueness and should serve the curiosity of each and every scholarly reader of Kashmir Śaivism.
Love's Subtle Magic
Aditya Behl
Author : Aditya Behl
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190628826
Love's Subtle Magic by Aditya Behl Pdf
The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on the subcontinent. In Love's Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of Sufi literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination. These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis. Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to convey an Islamic vision via an Indian idiom. They thus constitute the earliest attempt at the indigenization of Islamic literature in an Indian setting. More important, however, Behl's analysis brilliantly illuminates the cosmopolitan and composite culture of the Sultanate India in which they were composed. This in turn compels us completely to rethink the standard of the opposition between Indian Hindu and foreign Muslim and recognize that the Indo-Islamic culture of this era was already significantly Indian in many important ways.
Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective
Anders Pettersson,Gunilla Lindberg-Wada,Margareta Petersson,Stefan Helgesson
Author : Anders Pettersson,Gunilla Lindberg-Wada,Margareta Petersson,Stefan Helgesson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110894110
Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective by Anders Pettersson,Gunilla Lindberg-Wada,Margareta Petersson,Stefan Helgesson Pdf
Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective is a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet). Initiated in 1996 and launched in 1999, it aims at finding suitable methods and approaches for studying and analysing literature globally, emphasizing the comparative and intercultural aspect. Even though we nowadays have fast and easy access to any kind of information on literature and literary history, we encounter, more than ever, the difficulty of finding a credible overall perspective on world literary history. Until today, literary cultures and traditions have usually been studied separately, each field using its own principles and methods. Even the conceptual basis itself varies from section to section and the genre concepts employed are not mutually compatible. As a consequence, it is very difficult, if not impossible, for the interested layperson as well as for the professional student, to gain a clear and fair perspective both on the literary traditions of other peoples and on one's own traditions. The project can be considered as a contribution to gradually removing this problem and helping to gain a better understanding of literature and literary history by means of a concerted empirical research and deeper conceptual reflection. The contributions to the four volumes are written in English by specialists from a large number of disciplines, primarily from the fields of comparative literature, Oriental studies and African studies in Sweden. All of the literary texts discussed in the articles are in the original language. Each one of the four volumes is devoted to a special research topic.
Natya Brahman
Anita Ratnam Rangaraj
Author : Anita Ratnam Rangaraj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Sanskrit drama
ISBN : UOM:39015024558671
Natya Brahman by Anita Ratnam Rangaraj Pdf
The Natyasastra
Manomohan Chosh
Author : Manomohan Chosh
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9785882146701
The Natyasastra by Manomohan Chosh Pdf
The Natyasastra. Ascribed to Bharata Muni. Volume 1 (Chapters I-XXVII).
Asian Folklore Studies
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Asia
ISBN : IND:30000070293372
Asian Folklore Studies by Anonim Pdf
Dance Sculpture in Sarangapani Temple
Kapila Vatsyayan
Author : Kapila Vatsyayan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Dance in art
ISBN : UOM:39015037031328
Dance Sculpture in Sarangapani Temple by Kapila Vatsyayan Pdf
Sangeet Natak
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : UOM:39015077185349
Sangeet Natak by Anonim Pdf
Contributions of Sanskrit Inscriptions to Lexicography
S. P. Tewari
Author : S. P. Tewari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Inscriptions, Sanskrit
ISBN : UOM:39015052613588
Contributions of Sanskrit Inscriptions to Lexicography by S. P. Tewari Pdf
The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras
Music Academy (Chennai, India)
Author : Music Academy (Chennai, India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015024146931
The Journal of the Music Academy, Madras by Music Academy (Chennai, India) Pdf
Vols. 2- include the Proceedings of the Madras Music Conference, 1930-
Ancient Indian Literature: Classical Sanskrit, Prakrit, and apabhramsa
T. R. S. Sharma,C. K. Seshdri,June Gaur
Author : T. R. S. Sharma,C. K. Seshdri,June Gaur
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 942 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : India literature
ISBN : 812600794X
