Showing all 4 books
Annapurna is a bunch of flowers that bloomed in the course of quarter century of research with a fragrance of Indian thought on different branches of knowledge like nourishment, medicine, ecology, psychology, chemistry, petrology and like, spreading the aroma of Indian culture to the length and breadth of the world. The articles reflect the strength, vitality and vigour of Indian culture as known even in the times of hoary antiquity. Annapurna is a valuable ...
King Bhulokamalla Somesvara III of the Western Chalukyan dynasty composed Manasollasa, a work encyclopedic in nature, in 1131 A.D. In the chapter dealing with Grihopabhoga, King Somesvara gives directions to be followed for the construction of the Palace of the King. In this connection, Somesvara states that the Mayamata, Visvakarma Sastra, Matsyapurana and the other texts were invogue inj his time and that he is giving directions on Vastu accordingly. Thus, ...
Manasollasa (the refresher of the mind) was composed by King Bholokamalla Somesvara-III, of the Western Chalukyan dynasty, whose rule extended over Kamataka and Andhra desa from c. 1138 tarthachintamani (the magic stone that fulfills desires), Manasollasa is an encyclopaedia in scope dealing with 100 different topics in 5 books each having 20 topics. It is truly a refresher of mind and is a source of rich guidance by a king for the king craft. This is the first ...
Study of the growth of religion is a very-alluring and fascinating subject. A detailed study of all religions of Andhra upto 1000 A.D. basing on literary and archaeological sources made in this work with rendering from scriptures, with a special thrust on Brahmanical thought in all its dimensions, highlighting its role in shaping the matrix of contemporary social life is highly authentic and impressive. Some of the earliest specimen of iconographic forms of Siva, ...