Window To Ancient India A Tryst With Ancient Science Philosophy Part Ii Languages Linguistic Systems And Indian Logic System Vis A Vis The Greeks

Author : Satish S. Joglekar
Publisher : StoryMirror Infotech Pvt Ltd
Page : 342 pages
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Release : 2023-06-10
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9789390267910

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Window to Ancient India : A Tryst with Ancient Science & Philosophy | Part II : Languages, Linguistic Systems and Indian Logic System vis-a-vis the Greeks by Satish S. Joglekar Pdf

About the Book: The canvas of India’s history, literature, science, and culture spans not just centuries, but several millennia. This book provides a bird’s eye view of everything Indian or simply the proverbial ‘omnibus capsule’. For modern readers who have little time to read eclectic sources, the ‘omnibus capsule‘ hopes to provide a comprehensive compendium about India. Part I narrates the fascinating history of Board Games and Martial Arts in India. Race Games like Pachisi, Moksha Patam, and Ashtapada became channels for many popular games like Ludo, Snake & Ladders, and Backgammon. Pachisi was however appropriated by Alfred Collier, who took the game to England and called it ‘Royal Ludo’ and even earned a patent for it. One of the earliest war games was Chaturanga, the precursor of modern Chess. It traces the transmission of Chaturanga to the West via the Persians (Chatrang) and the Arabs (Shatranj), and its evolution into the contemporary form. It describes various kinds of derived chess games, like circular chess, four-handed chess, decimal chess, and chess with dice etc. The relationship between Chitra Kavya, a genre of Sanskrit poetry and the Knights Tour, is fascinating. The earliest mention of hand combat is to be found in the Buddhist text Lotus Sutra. Chua-Fa practised today can be traced to the original 18 Luohan Hands of Boddhidharma. The book covers 14 different forms of martial arts practised in India. Martial Arts to Performance describes how Kalaripayattu continues to influence contemporary dance forms. About the Author: Satish Joglekar is an engineer from IIT Bombay, with a Master’s in computer science. He has worked with several software companies for more than 30 years which included a long stint at Bell Laboratories, USA. Satish is trained in Hindustani classical music and has intense interest in history, non-fiction literature, and travel.

Author : Richard Garbe
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 151462219X

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The Philosophy of Ancient India by Richard Garbe Pdf

India is not merely a land of mystery and wonder, but a land also of culture and of high thinking. Philosophy nourished there at least before the time of Homer; and the same problems which afterwards engaged the minds of Grecian philosophers, and which engage the minds of modern thinkers, had ages before occupied the attention of Indian sages. To this ancient philosophy of India the little volume before us forms a very good introduction. The treatise consists of three parts; the first being a brief outline of the history of Indian philosophy; the second treating of the connection between Greek and Indian Philosophy, and the third discussing Hindu Monism. Six great systems of philosophy flourished in India during the millennium before Christ, in which the problems of existence are discussed with an acuteness and wealth of illustration that have never been excelled. And the influence of the mental life of the Hindus, in those far-off times, affected the thinking of the Greeks, and through them the thinking of the modern world. The Ionic doctrine of elements, the Eleatic idea of the unity of existence, the Heraclitic conception of becoming, and the Pythagorean theory of numbers as the principle of existence, according to our author, had their origin in the speculations of the Hindu philosophers. Not that the connection between India and Greece in the earliest times is supposed to have been direct. Our author rather suspects that the earliest Greek thinkers became acquainted with Hindu thought through Persian sources, and he suggests that the Pythagorean doctrine of numbers may have had its origin in a misunderstanding of a Hindu word. That word is Samkhya, number, which forms the name of a Hindu system of philosophy, because that system was believed to contain a complete enumeration, or number, of the principles of existence. Misunderstanding this application of the term, Pythagoras made number itself the principle of the universe; and countless philosophers have since wasted their energies in trying to understand what he could have meant. The doctrine of metempsychosis also came into Greece, not from Egypt, where it did not prevail, but from India, where it originated in the effort to explain the phenomenon of apparently innocent suffering. The Hindu believed that suffering must always be a punishment of sin; but he saw men suffering who seemed not to have been guilty of any sins in this life; hence he inferred that they must be suffering for the sins committed in another life. We mention but one more idea for which Professor Garbe supposes Greece to have been indebted to India, and that is the idea of the Logos, which was current in the Stoic philosophy as denoting the rational law and order of the universe, borrowed from this source by Philo and the Hellenists, and appropriated by the author of our fourth Gospel. The corresponding Hindu term is Vach, voice, word, which appears as the consort of Prajapati, the Creator, who, in union with it, or Tier, for the word is feminine, accomplishes his creation. We have reproduced these few ideas from the work before us merely in order to give the reader a taste of the interest attaching to it. - The Reformed Church Review [1897]

Author : Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
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Release : 1896
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : UOM:39015058496582

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Author : Richard Garbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Hindu philosophy
ISBN : NYPL:33433081881348

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The Philosophy of Ancient India by Richard Garbe Pdf

Author : Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120805658

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A History of Indian Logic by Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana Pdf

The author has in this work clearly marked the principal stages of Indian logic in the vast period of about two thousand years beginning from 640 and has traced how from Anviksiki the science of debate Indian logic developed into the science of knowledge Pramanasastra and then into the science of dialectics Prakarana of Tarkasastra.The treatment of the subject is both historical and critical. The author has traced some Greek influence on indian logic. For instance he has shown how the five membered syllogism of Aristotle found its way through Alexandria Syria and other countries into Taxila and got amalgamated with the Nyaya doctrine of inference.The book is one of the pioneer works on the subjects. It has drawn on original sources exhaustively. Besides the preface introduction, foreword and table of contents the work contains several appendices and indexes.

Author : Alok Kumar
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 213 pages
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Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781681735313

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Ancient Hindu Science by Alok Kumar Pdf

To understand modern science as a coherent story, we must recognize the achievements of the ancient Hindus and this book tells their stories through painstaking research of historical and scientific sources. The ancient Hindus invented our base-ten number system and zero that are now used globally, carefully mapped the sky and assigned motion to the Earth in their astronomy, developed a sophisticated system of medicine with its mind-body approach known as Ayurveda, mastered metallurgical methods of extraction and purification of metals, including the so-called Damascus blade and the Iron Pillar of New Delhi, and developed the science of self-improvement that is popularly known as yoga. Their scientific contributions impacted noted scholars globally: Aristotle, Megasthenes, and Apollonius of Tyana among the Greeks; Al-Biruni, Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Labban, and Al-Uqlidisi, Al-Jahiz among the Islamic scholars; Fa-Hien, Hiuen Tsang, and I-tsing among the Chinese; and Leonardo Fibbonacci, Pope Sylvester II, Roger Bacon, Voltaire and Copernicus from Europe. In the modern era, thinkers and scientists as diverse as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Gottfried Herder, Carl Jung, Max Mueller, Robert Oppenheimer, Erwin Schroedinger, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Henry David Thoreau have acknowledged their debt to ancient Hindu achievements in science, technology, and philosophy. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the largest scientific organizations in the world, in 2000, published a timeline of 100 most important scientific findings in history to celebrate the new millennium. There were only two mentions from the non-Western world: (1) invention of zero and (2) the Hindu and Mayan skywatchers astronomical observations for agricultural and religious purposes. Both findings involved the works of the ancient Hindus. Ancient Hindu Science is well documented with remarkable objectivity, proper citations, and a substantial bibliography. The style of writing is lucid and elegant, making the book easy to read. This book is the perfect text for all students and others interested in the developments of science throughout history and among the ancient Hindus, in particular.

Author : Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Hindu philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:452813267

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A History of Indian Logic by Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana Pdf

Author : Richard Garbe
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 102 pages
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Release : 2016-05-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1359680268

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The Philosophy of Ancient India by Richard Garbe Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Richard Garbe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 102 pages
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Release : 2017-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0484471260

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The Philosophy of Ancient India (Classic Reprint) by Richard Garbe Pdf

Excerpt from The Philosophy of Ancient India Distinctive leaning to metaphysical specu lation is noticeable among the Indians from the earliest times. Old hymns of the Rigveda, which in other respects are still deeply rooted in the soil of polytheism, show already the inclination to compre hend multifarious phenomena as a unity, and may therefore be regarded as the'first steps in the path which led the old Indian people to pantheism. Mo notheistic ideas also occur in the later Vedic hymns, but are not developed with sufficient logic to displace the multiform world of gods from the consciousness of the people. 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.

Author : Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher : Legare Street Press
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Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1018425748

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Ancient India by Hermann Oldenberg Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 994 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Hindu logic
ISBN : UOM:39015026472459

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A History of Indian Logic (ancient, Mediæval and Modern Schools.) by Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana Pdf

Author : Hermann Oldenberg
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 122 pages
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Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1440070261

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Ancient India by Hermann Oldenberg Pdf

Excerpt from Ancient India: Its Language and Religions The study of Sanskrit, the science of the antiquities of India, is about a century old. It was in the year 1784 that a number of men acting in Calcutta as judges or administrative officers of the East India Company, formed themselves into a scientific society, the Asiatic Society. We may say that the founding of the Asiatic Society was contemporaneous with the rise of a new branch of historical inquiry, the possibility of which preceding generations had barely or never thought of. Englishmen began the work; soon it was taken up by other nations; and in the course of time, in a much greater degree than is the case with the study of hieroglyphic and cuneiform inscriptions, it has become ever more distinctly a branch of inquiry peculiarly German. The little band of workers who are busy in the workshops of this department of science, have not been accustomed to have the eyes of other men turned upon their doings - their successes and failures. But, in spite, nay, rather in consequence of this, it is right that an attempt should be made to invite even the most disinterested to an inspection of these places of industry, and to point out, piece by piece, the work, or at least part of the work, that has been done there. 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.

Author : Richard Garbe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
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Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296220974

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The Philosophy of Ancient India - Scholar's Choice Edition by Richard Garbe Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Brajendranath Seal
Publisher : Franklin Classics Trade Press
Page : 308 pages
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Release : 2018-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343934833

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The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus by Brajendranath Seal Pdf

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Author : Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1978-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0896842185

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History of Indian Logic by Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana Pdf