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...

The six ways of knowing: a critical study of the Advaita theory of knowledge

Datta, D.M.

ISBN: 9789390696376, 9390696372

Sanskrit drama: a critical reappraisal

Pati, Madhusudan

ISBN: 9789390891924, 9390891922

This study contains critical explication of Classical Sanskrit drama, seeking to stimulate rethinking of a comprehensive kind on the subject. The tradition is examined from a wide variety of perspectives, Genre, character, rasa, dramatic organisation, theme, cultural values, dramatic poetry, and vision of human life, are some of the elements discussed with reference to five of the most exquisit...

The theory of karma revisited

Chaturvedi, Vibha

ISBN: 9788194243892, 8194243890

It is widely regarded as one of the fundamental principles of Indian philosophical thought, accepted by all school of classical Indian philosophy, except the Carvaka and the materialists.

The classical doctrine of Indian medicine: its origins and Greek parallels, transl. from the French by Devraj Chanana

Filliozat, J

ISBN: 9788121503594, 8121503590

Sacred sound and language in classical Saiva Siddhanta: a hermeneutical approach to philosophy and ritual in early dualistic Saivism

Stamm, Mikael

ISBN: 9789391430764, 9391430767

This book explores the implications of the philosophy and theory of language as propounded in the Indian dualist Saiva Siddhanta philosophy. This ancient Siva-tradition is described evolving from its original roots through its early development to its fully established form, which laid the foundation of today's Tamil Saiva philosophy.

The paradox of obligation and other conceptual essays in moral philosophy

Prasad, Rajendra

ISBN: 9788124610657, 8124610657

The essays included in this book provide highly critical and creative analysis of some of the basic problems of normative and meta-ethies in a pleasantly readable language. They can be enjoyably and profitably read by technical philosophers as well as interested bymen. Professor Prasad writes on ethical issues as seminal, conceptual issues of moral philosophical, and not as issues arising out o...

Vaisnavism through the ages

Siddhantashastree, Ravindra Kumar

ISBN: 9788121500715, 8121500710

Finding the joy within you: personal counsel for God-centered living

Daya Mata

ISBN: 9788120818958, 8120818954

Fire, death and philosophy: a history of ancient Indian thinking

Jurewicz, Joanna

ISBN: 9788120841895, 8120841891

This book is an attempt to reconstruct the foundations of Indian philosophy which are reflected in early Indian texts dated between 13th and 6th B.C.E. They constitute the intellectual foundation of Indian culture called Sruti, literally, 'what has been heard'. They are generally called Veda which means 'knowledge'.

Philosophy in classical India: the proper work of reason

Ganeri, Jonardon

ISBN: 9788120833371, 8120833376

Original in both approach and content, this book contains many new results, analyses and explanations. This fresh perspective on classical paradigms and points towards new applications for the concept of reason.

Inference the Anumana khanda of the Tattva cintamani: with introd., Skt. text, tr. & explanation)

Bhatta, V.P.

ISBN: 9788178544021, 8178544024

ISBN: 9788178544007 (vol.1); 9788178544014 (vol.2)

The Sankhya Aphorism of Kapila

Ballantyne, James R

ISBN: 9788170264484, 8170264480

The variegated plumage: encounters with Indian philosophy; a commemoration volume in honour of Pandir Jankinath Kaul`Kamal'

ISBN: 9788120819535, 8120819535

Asparsa-yoga: a study of Gaudapada's Mandukya Karika

Cole, Colin A

ISBN: 9788120819924, 8120819926

Beyond orientalism: the work of Wilhelm Halbfass and its impact on Indian and cross-cultural studies

Franco, Eli et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788120831100, 8120831101

In this book twenty three scholars from seven countries were invited to respond to issues elaborated in one or more of Wilhelm Halbfass own critical essays on Edward Said's Orientalism and related topics. The contributions have been grouped under the headings: Cross-Cultural Encounter and Dialogue, Issues of Comparative Philosophy, Topics in Classical Indian Philosophy, and Indian Religion, Pas...

Classical Samkhya: an interpretation of its history and meaning

Larson, Gerald James

ISBN: 9788120805033, 8120805038

A course in Indian philosophy, 2nd edition

Warder, AK

ISBN: 9788120812444, 8120812441

Dishonoured by philosophers: Upamana in Indian epistemology

Chattopadhyay, Uma

ISBN: 9788124605202, 8124605203

This book explores the way Naiyayikas and the Mimansakas offer on some map's points with reference to Upamana in their very defination of Upamana.