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The continued interest of my readers has encouraged me to bring out this fourth edition which has been updated where necessary but the work remains substantially unaltered. Buddhist studies have been noted in several bibliographical surveys in recent years among which Prof. Nakamura's Indian Buddhism (Delhi, 1987) deserves special mention. Nevertheless, much of the ongoing research is centred on the publication, translation or interpretation of post-canonical ...
Despite the existence of several legendary biographies of Sankara from medieval times, no critical historical biography of the Master has been available so far. The present work attempts to fill the lacuna. It is based on a critical study of all the available sources in the original and attempts a historical reconstruction of Snakara's life and work.
The ideas of Sankara have been generally interpreted in the light of later Advaitic and monastic tradition. The ...
The historian’s concern with causation tends to predispose him in favour what has been called ‘social being’ in contrast to ‘consciuosness’. The unfortunate part of this predisposition is to be content with a wholly external account of man’s cultural enterprise, an account which neglects the meaning of cultural symbols and consequently which neglects the meaning of cultural symbols and consequently of the consciousness which is correlated to the ...
Prof. Pande’s present work Consciousness Value Culture is a sequel to his earlier works Meaning and Process of Culture: A philosophy of History and Mulyamimamsa. It incorporates and carries forward their investigations into Value, Culture and History. It seeks to outline a philosophy of culture as the social and historical expression of the inner value seeking character of consciousness. It may also be alternatively described as a search for a Philosophy of ...
The present volume of essays covers a wide range of themes belonging to Kalidasa studies. Although much has been written on Kalidasa, much more remains to be written. In the present volume, the question of the date of Kalidasa has received considerable attention. The papers of Prof. K. Chattopadhyaya relating to the date of Kalidasa and connected issues form a central part of this volume. Well-known scholars, Sanskritists, Historians and Archaeologists have ...