The commentary idioms of the Tamil learned traditions

ISBN: 9788184702323, 8184702329

This volume presents several detailed studies of the commentary traditions of South India with a particular emphasis of Tamil, but extended to Sanskrit and Telugu as well. The importance of commentaries for our understanding of classical Indian languages and their literatures has long been acknowledged, but rarely have the commentaries themselves, especially minor ones, been the subject of syst...

Indian thinkers: modern and contemporary period

Vallabadoss, John Peter

ISBN: 9789351484264, 9351484262

This book details on the handpicked modern and contemporary Indian thinkers, and their creative attempt to respond to challenges of modern times by revisiting and reinterpreting the classical Indian thought together with adapting suitable western ideological inputs.

The Bloomsbury research handbook of Indian philosophy of language

ISBN: 9781350049161, 1350049166

This handbook provides an up-to-date research resource for better understanding the history and future direction of the field. Each chapter addresses a particular philosophical problem from the viewpoint of seminal traditions and specific thinkers. Covering the philosophical insight on language found in the mainstream traditions of Vyakarana, Mimamsa, Nyaya, Vedanta, Buddhism, and Alankarasastr...

Indian theories of illusion

Bandyopadhyay, Rupa

ISBN: 9789380336183, 9380336187

The present work gives a faithful account of debates on the basis of original Sanskrit texts. The author tried to relate ancient debates to contemporary issues.

Padarthatattvanirupanam: tikatrayopetam by Raghunatha Siromani, 2 vols., with three Hindi commentaries

ISBN: 9789389386028, 9389386020

On fundamentals of Nyaya and Vaisesika philosophy.

Radhanath Phukan's treatment of Samkhya philosophy

Devi, Rashmi

Essays on the Yogasutra: engaging the world in freedom

Whicher, Ian

ISBN: 9788120842427, 8120842421

This book consists of five essays that have been revised from previous writings and include recent work on Classical Yoga.

The Ragachitras of Mewar: Indian musical modes in Rajasthani miniature painting

Pande, Anupa

ISBN: 9788173056154, 8173056153

This book is a combination of both the theory of classical Indian music and its representation in visual arts in the form of ragachitraas or raga paintings. It includes a textual, aesthetic and iconographic analysis of two significant sets of ragachitra folios from the Gem Palace Collection of the National Museum (New Delhi) and Bharat Kala Bhavan (Varanasi) through a comprehensive survey of pr...

A rasa reader classical Indian aesthetics, tr. and ed. by Sheldon Pollock

ISBN: 9788178246413, 8178246414

This book is the first in any language to follow the evolution of rasa from its origins in dramaturgical thought--a concept for the stage--to its flourishing literary thought--a concept for the page. This book incorporates primary texts by every significant thinker on classical Indian aesthetics, many never translated before.

Shringara in classical Indian Dance,

ISBN: 9788182903647, 8182903645

This book is the dominant rasa, or aesthetic flavor, that has been interpreted in literature, philosophy, the visual and performing arts amidst other rasas--Srngara (crotic), Hasyam (comic), Karunyam (pathetic), Raudram (fury), Veeram (heroic), Bhayanakam (fearful), Bibhatsa (odious) and Adbhutam (marvellous), Shantam (peaceful).

Visistadvaita critique of the Advaita hermeneutics, with special reference to Vedarthasamgraha

Vasudev, Himani

ISBN: 9788194622116, 8194622115

The principal ragas of Indian music

Singh, Shobha

ISBN: 9788193439302, 8193439309

`Thaat' is the method of dividing ragas in Hindustani classical music. The main raga of each `Thaat' is called the `Ashraya' raga and other ragas are `Ashrita' ragas. This book is an attempt to make the readers aware of the `Ashraya' ragas. The author has very clearly presented the concept of `Ashraya' raga and its significance. Music has been the subject of study in India since Vedic period. V...

Impact of Nyaya-Vaiseshika on Indian thoughts

ISBN: 9789387941816, 9387941817

Structuring advaita dialectic: a study of Sriharsa's Khandanakhandakhadyam and Naisadhiyacaritam

A.P., Francis

ISBN: 9789382396697, 9382396691

It is a scholarly attempt in the field of studies to restructure the Advaita dialectics against the background of the ideal set forth by the triumvirate of Advaita dialectics viz. Sriharsa, Citsukha and MadhusudanaSarasvati.

Carvak (`Swaroo' vyakhya sahit)

Misra, Pankaj Kumar

ISBN: 9789387195653, 9387195651

Elementary aspects of the political histories from the global south

Banerjee, Prathama

ISBN: 9789354420023, 9354420028

This book studies the rise of modern politics in India between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries in the encounter between colonial modern, classical Indian, Indo-Persian and regional vernacular ideas.

From Indus to Independence: a trek through Indian history, 7 vols.

Kainikara, Sanu

ISBN: 9789385563133, 9385563130

Vol.1: Prehistory to the fall of the Mauryas; Vol.2: The classical age; Vol.3: The disintegration of empires; Vol.4: The onslaught of Islam; Vol.5: The Delhi Sultanate; Vol.6: Medieval deccan kingdoms; Vol.7: Named for victory: the Vijayanagara empire.

Hindustani classical music: a historical and computational study

Chakraborty, Soubhik et al.

ISBN: 9788194783008, 8194783003

This work aims to address the historical development of the great Indian raga tradition, enhanced by computational approaches, and to use computational strategies to analyze aspects of contemporary Hindustani classical music (HCM).

The yoga of the Matsyendrasamhita: a critical edition and annotated tr. of chapters 1-13 and 55

Kiss, Csaba

ISBN: 9788184702392, 8184702396

This volume presents the first critical edition, along with an English translation, of the core chapters of a Sanskrit work of perhaps the thirteenth century surviving in five nineteenth-century witnesses: the Matsyendrasamhita. The work is useful as a primary source for the history of yoga and the Saiva religions: it reveals important links between the tantric cults of Kubjika and Tripura and ...

Cultures of memory in South Asia: orality, literacy and the problem of inheritance,

Rao, D. Venkat

ISBN: 9788132239819, 8132239814

..... and Cultures; Vol. 6. This book reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European `textual inheritances. The main argument of this work is that the reflective and generative nodes of Indian cultural formations ar...