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The project to reprint D.D. Kosambi’s unsurpassed works on Bhartrihari’s Sataka-trayam, i.e. the result of his extended editorial, critical, analytical and exegetical endeavours, is systematically continued with this reprint-followings upon that of his critical editon of the Satakatraya itself in 2000,- of his edition of the epigrams together with the oldest available commentary by the Jain scholar Dhanasaragani. This is no ...
This is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of a historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indus cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans-if any? Did the caste system ever serve any useful social ...