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The entire Mahanadi River Valley is stated to be the land of Kamakala, Uddiyana-Pitha and erotic art. Kamakala means the art of desire; the divine Kamakala is symbolized in the shape of two circular components, the overall shape signifying the union of male and female principles. The Uddiyana-Pitha refers to sites where Lord Shiva resides in the Yogini cult that developed in this region.
The volume reveals the contributions of the Mahanadi River Valley to the ...
The book focuses on the cultural developments of Agneya-Kona (the south-east India) and their contributions to the development of humanity, and highlights the concocted history of Bharatavarsha, especially of Agneya-Kona.
The author projects many artefacts to substantiate his theory. Many archaeological findings — the pre-historic rock painting of Gudahandi, images of female figurines, along with circular discs, and nude female figurines — are cases ...
Tantric tradition in our country is quite rich, with an eventful history. Still, there has been a dearth of good books on this subject in English. This study-with focus on Orissa-is a significant step in this direction. The original literature, on this subject-in Sanskrit and other classical languages-is very vast and one has to probe for various authentic references. Here is a treasure in nutshell. This research based work fills a big vacuum, in order to quench ...
With the implication of non-co-operation movement, there was Kanika Meli (1921-22). It has been proved that it was the call of the Congress Party propagandists that then Kanika Raja was levying many unjust taxes and tenants should stop payment of land rents. Levying of many unjust taxes at Kanika ex-estate has been proved false. The double standard writings of Ananda Chandra Jena, Gopabandhu Das and Harekrushna Mahtab which mentions this, are proved not genuine. ...
The origin of the Jagannath deity is open to several interpretations. The myth claims it to be a divine creation, while many historians see the tribal deity of the Sabaras transformed into Jagannath. An icon of Buddha was installed as Jagannath or Vishnu-Krishna by Adi Sankaracharya at the Govardhan Math, established by him at Puri. Therefore, Adi Sankaracharya should claim the credit for bringing in Jagannath as a Vaishnav deity. Jagannath in the present shape ...
Though Orissa province of India has not remained ‘terra icognito’ to the historical World, Orissa needs much field surveys and excavations, for giving justification to its archaeological remains. Author has been carrying on the required works in individual level since 1968. Thirty seven research papers both unpublilshed and published of the author, have been compiled in this Books, for easy assess. Yogic interpretations have been given for the first time, on ...
The present work is based on first hand literaray, archaeological materials and deals with all aspects of the history and culture of a part of Western Orissa. Three districts of Orissa, viz. Sambalpur, Balangir and Kalahandi formed the eastern part of South Kosala in ancient and medieval periods. Though many pre-historic findings and scattered antiquities have been explored, the history and civilization of this part of Orissa has hitherto not been studied ...
Man has the quality to plunge, dive and strike to the inner moods through Tantric Yoga for self-realization. Tantra is a parallel cultivation of the Vedic wisdom through which India reached its topmost zenith. Based on the dual conception of creation, with the participation of “Siva†and “Saktiâ€, the germinator and the nurturer respectively, tantra is a highly complex system of philosophical thought. The Vedic rsis discovered the yoga of sexual ...
The Nuapada and Kalahandi districts of Orissa province are rich in archaeological remains. Systematic surveys and required excavations are not yet done. From the archaeological works so far, in individual level of the author, the antediluvian, pre-history, proto-history, early history and medieval history, till the rise of Chauhan and Naga dynasties have been done. The study shows the path for such works to be taken up in all districts of all the provinces of ...
Many talents of India were born during British ruling period in India, who had highlighted Indian religion, culture and heritage to the entire world, inspite of their sufferings. One of such personality was Rajkumar Prafulla Chandra Bhanja Deo whose research papers are published in the journals of Europe and U.S.A. during the general period in between 1935-1950. This book focuses all about him, in his own writings, which are collected, edited and published in a ...