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The book is an attempt by the author to fulfil the desire of laymen to have some knowledge about the Indian Philosophy that has brought glory to India. The book begins with a rapid survey of the Sanskrit literature right from the vedic period. This is followed by such topics as are relevant for the study of Indian Philosophy. Prominent authors and their works in this domain have been briefly dealt with, in the book, accompanied by up-to-date bibliographical ...
No work on the Sanskrit literature of Bengal (West Bengal and Bangladesh taken together) has as yet been published in English. The result is that the non-Bengali elites and the foreign indologists know very little about it beyond excepting what is written in stray articles published in different journals particularly in the English works on the history of Bengal. So, a sustained account of the Sanskrit literature, produced in Bengal, is a desideratum. The ...
In Western tradition, ‘Grammar’ (from Greek grammatike) stands for that branch of knowledge which deals with the inflectional forms, rules for their application, syntax, and some times, the phonetic system of the language, and its representation in writing . In India the term ‘vyakarana’ connotes much more than the term ‘grammar’ does. In Sanskrit the science of language is called ‘vyakarana’ which includes phonetics, etymology, accentuation, ...
The book is designed to find out the foundations on which the global cultural edifice has been built. A perusal of the book will convince the reader that the world civilization is like a mighty old tree that remified through centuries. In different facets of culture, architecture, sculpture, music, astronomy, mathematics, medical science, literature, etc. India played the roles of both the lender and the borrower. The readers will feel that the homosapiens belong ...
India has a millennia-long, glorious past. In mankind's history, it is unmistakably a rich chapter: splendid in expression and awe-inspiring in immensity. Recognised world-wide for the sublimity of its thought that transcends cosmic categories, the cultural glory of ancient India is well-manifest in its long intellectual traditions of Darsana (philosophy), Dharmasastras (ethical codes/sociology), Ayurveda (medicine), Niti (polity/statecraft), Itihasa-Purana ...