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The book explores the philosophical dimensions of Bhakti tradition in India in all their variety and depth, and raises the question such as whether the world of feelings which is intrinsically subjective and personal in character can ever be an ‘object’ of rational enquiry. It asks "Is Bhakti possible without belief in personal God or any God whatsoever?" and, tries to articulate the ‘ideals’ immanent in the life of feelings without reference to ...
The Dattilam is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organized, systematic writing on music in India. The work can be placed in the same period as the Natyasastra (the beginning of the Christian era) and it presents to us a well-developed sastra, composed at the end of a long tradition of analytic thinking on music. It is devoted to the description of gandharva, a sacred corpus of music, derived from the still more ancient sama, sacred Vedic ...