Ajay Mitra Shastri
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It is often stated and the common people made to believe that the people of what was anciently called pragjyotisha and its surroundings in the North-East were outside the mainstream of Indian life and culture, and the Aryans attempted to colonise them and impose upon them their alien culture. The utter falsity of this motivated propaganda has been amply demonstrated in the present work with strong evidences. It has been shown that the word arya had originally no ...
Though the great worth of old texts as a source of cultural history is widely acknowledged, astrological writings are generally supposed to be deficient in this respect. The erroneousness of the notion will be best illustrated by a glance at the present work dwelling from this angle upon the priceless historical data enshrined in the treatises of Varahamihira, one of the most celebrated astronomers-astrologers that India is justly proud of. His writings afford ...
The Mahabharata War was, or thought to be, such a momentous event as to leave an indelible impact on the life and culture of not only the Indian subcontinent but on all the other countries where Indians migrated in strength and lived for some time. There were several important personages in India and abroad named after the Mahabharata characters and places in far-flung areas are found christened after them. The Mahabharata is still being lived by Indians and by ...
The Satavahanas (Andhra or Andhrajatiya of the historical sections of the puranas) occupy a pre-eminent position in early Deccanese history comparable only to that of the Kushanas of North India who were almost contemporaries. However, despite scholarly efforts for over a century and half, numerous basic issues appertaining them including the original seat of their power, total duration of their rule and number of monarchs of the imperial line and chronology, ...
This work is a product of the Inscriptions of India Programme of the Indian Council of Historical Research undertaken with a view to making inscriptions dating from circa sixth to fourteenth century a.d. available in handy volumes. Part I studies the inscriptions of the Sarabhapuriyas, Panduvamsins and Somavamsins who played a major role in shaping the destinies of the Chhattisgarh region of Madhya Pradesh (Kosala) and the adjoining region of Orissa from about ...
The present work deals with some interesting problems concerning Varahamihira, who was one of the greatest Jyotisa writers of ancient India and a true representative of the life and culture of the Gupta age, and his numerous writings. The questions dwelt upon include, inter alia, the genesis of his name which was due to certain socio-religious phenomena, the determination of the Saka-kala employed by him, the chronological and historical implications of his ...
Students of the early history of the Deccan, specially its early phase, are faced with numerous baffling problems. Some of these problems concern the satavahanas, the first autochthonous imperial power. There is thus controversy even regarding the initial period of their rule and the region under them towards the end. A few other issues concerning individual members of the dynasty are also controversial. Their successors in a part of their vast empire were ...