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Tripura is ranked among of most ancient princely states of eastern India. The Administration Reports –as published annually by the Tripura Durbar to meet the demands of modernized from of administration- is an important original source of history. But due to the non-availability to the Reportsa and dearth of Various other original source materials, the scholars had to depends so long on secondary sources for having some idea about the princely state and its ...
The present work throws new light, with the help of literary and archaeological data, on the gradual development of the concept of Rudra-Siva in his theriomorphic, anthropomorphic and phallic forms since the days of the Harappa civilization. The approach to the subject is mainly historical. In the first chapter, an attempt has been made to congregate the flakes of ideas about Rudra as found in the Vedic literature, then to identify the Vedic Rudra with a host of ...