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The Bamadeva Samhita, Historical geography of Utkala during the time of the Bamadeva Samhita, identification of the deities in the inner and outer compound of Jagannatha Temple of Puri, workers of Srimandira and their duties, mode of worship as depicted in the Bamadeva Samhita festivals and their significances religion in the Bamadeva Samhita, philosophy in the Bamadeva Samhita and society and culture figured in the Bamadeva Samhita.
This Sthala Purana Bamadeva ...
This small treatise is an anthology of 10 articles on Vedic studies most of which adhere to new insights on Vedic interpretations. These articles uncover some of the new concepts underneath the great hymns of the Veda. The insights, experiences, observations and speculations of the Vedic bards are far reaching and uncommon. So, the Vedas and the Vedic texts embrace all sorts of knowledge, i.e., "a knowledge par excellence" which is diversified in its ...
This monograph is an anthology of twenty articles on vedic expositions, interpretations and speculations. The Veda is not only a religious text, but also a literature of the most ancient period, a primordial source of human knowledge, "Knowledge par excellence". This sacred text portrays the microscopic observations of the vedic seers on macroscopic subjects. Ostensibly, different scholars have been analysing the vedic material from diverse angles. The ...
The book presents scholarly essays examining the origin and evolution of Sanskrit grammar in ancient India-from the time of Panini to Patanjali. It focuses on the monumental works in Sanskrit grammar, the Astadhyayi of Panini, the Varttikas of Katyayna and the Mahabhasya of Patanjali and the impact of these of the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. The essays critically analyse the Paninian system of Sanskrit grammar: its style and technicalities and particularly ...
The main objective of the present treatise is to uncover the geographical elements underneath the vedic hymns. The vedic literature alongwith its various branches of knowledge adheres to the geography of the world in general and that of India in particular. It is also observed that the knowledge developed after the vedic literature out and out reflects those contained in the four Vedas, viz.-Rg, Sama, Yaju and Atharva. In the present monograph, a benevolent ...
The Vedic literature comprising of the four Vedas, the Samhitas, the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, the Upanisads and the Sutras serves as the chief source of human knowledge in the most ancient period. It stands as the symbol of our rich cultural heritage. It provides us knowledge in diverse fields like language, literature, tradition, culture, history, sociology, geography, mythology, philosophy, religion, science and technology, phonetics, grammar, etc. Author, who ...
In popular perception, Jagannatha is Krsna -- nay Visnu Himself. He is, thus, not an incarnation (avatara), but Himself the incarnator (avatarin). "Many millions of the avataras emerge out of the body of Jagannatha and get merged again into Him Who is the highest Brahman Himself," sings a later medieval poet of Orissa, while glorifying the Lord. And Jagannatha temple, near the sea-coast of Puri (Orissa), stays not just as one of the greatest religious ...
The present work 'Glimpses of Tantric Studies' is an anthology of eighteen articles covering the various aspects of Tantra, Mantra, Yantra and occult sciences. The studies embedded here in this treatise are cast over the origin, development and tradition of the Tantric cult ; its rituals and practices. Tantra, being the cult of the feminine, embraces worships, rites and practices related to the Mother Goddesses. Any Sakta-pitha is the abode of its ...
This book "Vedic Science and Technology" contains, in its ten chapters, the significant aspects of science and scientific thoughts of the Vedic bards reflected in their hymns and the modern scientific theories developed later. The Vedic deities symbolize the natural phenomena which the human beings of that period came across in their day-to-day life and had interactions with such events. Ostensibly, the modern scientific theories and practices have ...