Sachchidanand Sahai
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This publication (in two volumes and four parts) unfolds the Buddhist transformation of the Ramayana, known as the Phra Lak Phra Lam or the Rama Jataka in Laos. The Laotian text is based on careful collating of six parallel palm-leaf manuscripts available in different monasteries of Laos. Its English translation and critical studies have been carried out in a broader comparative perspective rooted in socio-linguistic and cultural anthropology. For Indian studies ...
Contents: 1. Indian contexts. 2. The Cho Dinh rock: the southern cradle of Bhadreshvara. 3. My son: the northern cradle of Bhardreshvara in Champa. 4. Bhadreshvara in the Cham historical perspective. 5. Wat Phu: the Khmer Cradel of Bhadreshvara. 6. Angkor: advance of Bhadreshvara in the Mekong valley. 7. Bhadreshvara travels to Preah Vihear. 8. The last laugh of Bhadreshvara.
This book seeks to trace the origins of Shiva, the most energetic god of Indian civilization, following his footsteps from Kashmir to Kanyakumari, and from the trans-Himalayan region to Indian Ocean countries. It offers a detailed account of his rise from an obscure pre-historic roots, his role as an ordinary family-man, his dissenting voice in the mounting orthodoxy of Hinduism, plethora of sects and philosophies around his personality of contradictions.
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The volume explores the Buddhist linkages between India and Vietnam. The papers presented at the Hanoi International Conference in April 2011 by scholars including those from other places like Sri Lanka, Thailand, China and Cambodia deals with facets of cultural exchange through Buddhist thought, philosophy, art and architecture and ideology of social change. They take up spread of Buddhism by King Ashoka and others, Indian Buddhist influence on Khmer art and ...
Many thousand temples built within a time span of about thousand years, before the fourteen century, stand as witness to the creative genius of different communities of Southeast Asia. They also testify to the cultural dialogue between India and Southeast Asia centered on the architectural and planning experiences as coded in the silpasastra texts of India.
The present monograph looks at the Khmer temples of Hindu inspiration spread over mainland Southeast ...
The two volumes offer for the first time a critical and comprehensive study and an annotated translation of the Laotian Palm-leaf manuscript popularly known as the Phra Lak Phra Lam. Recognised as the Rama Jataka in the Buddhist milieu of Laos, this text ranks next to the Vessantara Jataka as a sacred text. It is an important Laotian addition to the existing stock of Buddhist Jataka literatue. The Volume I of this study analyses the Jataka format of the text in ...
The foreign accounts of India—the Greek, Chinese, Arab and European are well known. The book presents, for the first time, a hitherto unknown account of India as given by the Siamese (Thai). An attempt has been made to delineate the rare insights in Indian history as gleaned in course of extensive travels of the Siamese delegation in India under the leadership of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1872. In the first part of the monograph, ten independent chapters ...
The monograph offers a unique version of the Ramayana from Laos, considered as an "out-post" of Indian civilization in South-East Asia. The original palm leaf manuscript of the Gvay Dvorahbi which forms the basis of this study was preserved in the collection of the Royal Palace. Luang Prabang in 1970s. The title of the text pronounced as Khvay Thuaraphi, buffalo Dundabhi is a well-known character of the Valmiki Ramayana in its Kiskindha Kanda, with this ...
This work is devoted to the detailed and critical study of the costume, coiffure and ornament that were prevalent among the people of North-Eastern India from c. 325 BC to c. 1200 AD. Costume, coiffure and ornament form a constituent element of human culture. They are excellent embodiments of individual as well as racial self-expression. They also explain aesthetic qualities, love for beauty and refinement, and the influence-internal and external-bearing on the ...
The Mekong-the 12th largest river in the world has been generally celebrated for its awe-inspiring rapids, its pristine beauty and unparalleled landscape. As the 7th longest river in Asia, it is perceived as endlessly meandering through exotic lands inhabited by colourful tribes, speaking mutually unintelligible tongues. Taking the reader beyond these stereotyped images, the present monography explores, for the first time, the Mekong in its dialectical ...
Mapping Connections: Indo-Thai Historical and Cultural Linkages, a collection of incisive essays by some of the best-known names from India and Thailand, is an important initiative in the growth of civilizational relations between the two countries. This book emerges from a seminar, “Indo-Thai Historical and Cultural Linkages,†co-hosted by the Royal Thai Embassy and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations. The Seminar was visualized as an academic ...
This volume brings together papers which were presented at a seminar to explore Indo-Thai historical and cultural linkages and the age old relationship between the two countries, its historical contribution to the formation of global Asian Civilization and consciousness in today's world. The topics discussed include the Buddhism in Thailand, Trade Contacts between the two countries from ancient time, Artefacts and Heritage sites, The Theory of Mind in early ...