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The Rigveda: 3-Volume Set
Häftad, 2017
3994 kr
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The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the …
The Rigveda
Inbunden, 2014
8669 kr
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The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed and orally transmitted for several millennia, the hymns display remarkable poetic complexity and religious sophistication. As the culmination of the …
City of Mirrors
Songs of Lalan Sai
Av SALOMON, Keith CantDu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3812 kr
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Carol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of songs by the Bengali poet and mystical philosopher Lalan Sai (popularly transliterated as Lalon) who lived in the village of Cheuriya in Bengal in the latter half of the nineteenth …
In the Shade of the Golden Palace
Ālāol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan
Inbunden, 2018
2705 kr
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In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Ālāol (fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one versified treatise from medieval Hindi and Persian into Bengali. The book maps the genres, structures, and themes of Ālāol's works, paying special …
Donors, Devotees, and the Daughters of God
Temple Women in Medieval Tamilnadu
Inbunden, 2000
2994 kr
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Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval South India, and suggests new ways of understanding the character of the temple woman -- and of the role of women in Indian religion and society. This …
Indian Epigraphy
A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages
Inbunden, 1999
2306 kr
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Salomon surveys all the inscriptional material - documents written in ink on various surfaces, or carved into stone and metal, as well as seals - in the Indo-Aryan languages. He presents the entire corpus of these inscriptions in a way accessible to specialists in the field as well as …
The Early Upanisads
Annotated Text and Translation
Inbunden, 1999
2705 kr
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This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete Sanskrit text, as well as variant readings, scholarly emendations, and explanations of Olivelle's choices …
Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga
The Hindu Law of Inheritance in Bengal
Inbunden, 2002
2765 kr
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This is a translation of a 12th-century Sanskrit legal text, with the original text. The Dayabhaga was one of the most important texts in the history of Indian law. The text, fairly late and inspiring little attention, is important because the British elevated it to such prominence in their new …
Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath
An Analysis and Translation of the Rajasthani Oral Narrative of Devnarayan
Av Aditya Malik
Inbunden, 2005
2948 kr
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This book offers a detailed study of the Devnarayan ki par, along with the first English translation of this well-known Rajasthani oral narrative. The tale of the god Devnarayan is performed by itinerant singer-priests during night-wakes in front of a very large painted scroll depicting characters …
Manu's Code of Law
A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra
Inbunden, 2004
3131 kr
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Manu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed picture of ancient Indian life-covering everything from the constitution of the king's cabinet to the …
Between the Empires
Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE
Inbunden, 2006
2328 kr
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This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part I of the book looks at what can be construed from archeological evidence. Part II …
Managing Monks
Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism
Inbunden, 2008
1683 kr
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The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study-to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution, …
Siva in Trouble
Festivals and Rituals at the Pasupatinatha Temple of Deopatan
Inbunden, 2008
1371 kr
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The town of Deopatan, three kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, is above all famous for its main sanctum, the temple of Paśupati, the 'lord of the animals,' a form of Śiva and the tutelary deity of the kings of Nepal since ancient times. By its name alone, the temple attracts thousands of pilgrims …
A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi
Inbunden, 2010
1148 kr
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The Mahotsavavidhi, a twelfth-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Saiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival" for the god Siva. The author, Aghorasiva, is one of the most esteemed and influential authors in the Saiva Siddhanta school, and his lengthy work on …
Dharma
Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative
Inbunden, 2011
2077 kr
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Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central concerns, and dharma proved a means of thinking through and articulating those concerns. Alf Hiltebeitel …
To Savor the Meaning
The Theology of Literary Emotions in Medieval Kashmir
Inbunden, 2021
1469 kr
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Medieval Kashmir in its golden age saw the development of some of the most sophisticated theories of language, literature, and emotion articulated in the pre-modern world. These theories, enormously influential on the later intellectual history of South Asia, were written at a time when religious …
The Ocean of Inquiry
Niscaldas and the Premodern Origins of Modern Hinduism
Inbunden, 2022
1333 kr
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Advaita Vedanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history--a history closely interwoven with that of medieval and modern Hinduism--remains surprisingly unexplored. This book focuses on a single remarkable work and its place within that history: The Ocean of …
East of Delhi
Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
Inbunden, 2023
1304 kr
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Like many societies across the world, the region of Awadh in North India has been bilingual throughout its history. But literary histories of the region often indicate otherwise. In the early twentieth century, colonists recodified literary histories separately according to language, detached …
Minor Majesties
The Paluvēṭṭaraiyars and Their South Indian Kingdom of Paluvūr, 9th-11th centuries A.D.
Inbunden, 2025
1151 kr
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Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluvūr, a town located on the northern bank of the Kāvēri river, about 30 kilometers north of Tanjavur. Between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E., Paluvūr was the capital of the dynasty of the Paluvēṭṭaraiyars, a minor dynasty of "little …
Indian Alchemy
Sources and Contexts
Inbunden, 2026
1233 kr
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Drawing on a selection of the most important Sanskrit alchemical works from the ninth to sixteenth centuries, Indian Alchemy: Sources and Contexts provides an introduction to South Asian alchemy, tracing and explaining alchemical thought as it developed on the Indian subcontinent. Carefully edited …
The Teachings of the Master-Hearts
Zoroastrian Esotericism and Hermeneutical Polyphony in Modern India
Inbunden, 2027
977 kr
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The Teachings of the Master-Hearts examines the formation, development, and intellectual significance of Ilme Kṣnum, an esoteric interpretation of Zoroastrianism that emerged among Parsis in modern India. By situating Ilme Kṣnum within the broader historical context of British colonialism, …
Women in Early Indian Buddhism
Comparative Textual Studies
Inbunden, 2013
1437 kr
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The path of practice as taught in ancient India by Gotama Buddha was open to both women and men. The texts of early Indian Buddhism show that women were lay followers of the Buddha and were also granted the right to ordain and become nuns. Certain women were known as influential teachers of men and …
Say to the Sun, "Don't Rise," and to the Moon, "Don't Set"
Two Oral Narratives from the Countryside of Maharashtra
Av Ramdas Atkar, Rajaram Zagade
Inbunden, 2014
1923 kr
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Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-language oral literature of the Dhangar shepherds is not only one of the most important elements of the traditional cultural life of its region, but …
Innovations and Turning Points
Toward a History of Kāvya Literature
Av Yigal Bronner, David Shulman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
1143 kr
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This volume is the first attempt to offer a panoramic historical overview of South Asian classical poetry, especially in Sanskrit. Many of the essays in this volume are the first serious studies of the great masterpieces of South Asian literature. Moreover, the book as a whole captures the …
Poetry of Kings
The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India
Inbunden, 2011
1894 kr
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This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership. Allison Busch draws on the perspectives of literary, social, and intellectual history to elucidate one of premodern India's most significant textual …
Rise of a Folk God
Vitthal of Pandharpur
Inbunden, 2011
1593 kr
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Vitthal, also called Vithoba, is the most popular Hindu god in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, and the best-known god of that region outside India. His temple at Pandharpur is the goal of an annual pilgrimage that is one of the largest and most elaborate in the world.This book is the …
