Bharatiya Kala Prakashan
334 books
The Artha Samgrahah is an elementary treatise on Mimamsa Darsana, written Laugaksi Bharskara. This text simplifies the subject matter of Mimamsa and presents it in aclear way for the followers of Mimamsa-Sastra. According to Dr. Umesh Mishra : "It is an elementary book which is very useful for the beginners. Due to its easy and simple style the book has become so very popular amongest the Sanskritists". The book Artha Sangraha is divided into Six ...
Contributors Barua, Asis Bhattacharya, Sachindra Nath Bhattacharya, Swati Bhattacharya, Tarapada Bhattacharyya, Anuradha Bhattacharyya-Ray, Monolina Bhowmick, Atul Chandra Biswas, Achintya Chakrabarti, Asis K. Chakrabarti, Dhyanesh Narayan Chakraborty, Amalendu Chakravarti, Shyamalkanti Chakravarti, Sipra Chattopadhyay, Enakshi Chattopadhyay, Santinath Das, Sukla Gangoly, Bhagabandas Goswami, Bijoya Majid, M.A. Mandal, Bijan Kumar Manuel, J. Mitter, Arup Mohammed ...
This book entitled, ‘Texts and Traditions: Technical aspects of Temple construction during the Vijayanagara period in Andhradesa’consists of five chapters. Chapter I – Introduction, Chapter II –Architectural features of Vijayangara temples, Chapter III – Texts and Traditions : techniques of temple construction during the Vijayanagara Period, Chapter IV – Techniques of Temple construction: A Case Study of Madana Gopala Swamy ...
The work attempts to understand the Dravidian mode of temple architecture based upon classical texts in general. The definitions and description of various adjuncts of the temple are useful for the research scholars of south Indian temple architecture in general. But the study of temples of Salem region in particular throws light upon the lesser known temple with great aesthetic value. This also helps in understanding the development of temple architecture in ...
The present work titled, “Classical Sanskrit Literature” is grouped in ten chapters, starting with classical Sanskrit and ending with the theories of poetry. In between the author makes an effort to deal with the predecessors of Kalidasa, Kalidasa, the post-Kalidasa epic, the historical Kavyas, the prose romance and the Champu, the popular tale, the didactic fable and the lyric and gnomic verse.
Caritakavya in Modern Sanskrit Literature has a long tradition starts from Adikavya Ramayana of Valmiki. In modern age also the rich tradition of Caritakavya is continuously flourished to date. The heroes of the different fields of Indian Society are used to depict in Modern Sanskrit Carutakavya by contemporary Sanskrit poets. It will critically evaluate it. The present thesis is a goal effort to this direction. The thesis is divided in eight chapters. The list ...
Ignorance of Kevaladvaita of Sankara is profound. In course of time, it came to be highly misinterpreted and gave rise to many misnomers, uninformed and ill-informed accounts and thereby misleading criticism. E.g.,
(a) Sankaras Advaita came to be branded as Mayavada and because of this; it usually comes to be summarized in oft-quoted verse, which runs as follows: Brahman is the only reality; the world is ultimately false; and the individual soul is non-different ...
With the help of the old Aryan language (Sanskrit) preserved in India over thousands of years ago, European scholars have made great contributions from one of the most brilliant chapters in the ealry history of the advancement of human knowledge. The present author has made an effort to give a sketch of that history spaning from the Vedic Period to the Epic Period and the Rationalistic Period (B.C. 1000-320).
The book contains twenty six chapters in total where ...
This work has become an English-Pali Dictionary of considerable size. To cover the whole English language is an enormous task, and to find our Pali words for nimerous modern concepts is extremely difficult if not impossible. I had to coin many words for new things, and sometimes I had to give more than one Pali word for some English verbs which do not exist in the ancient languages like Pall. As this is only a first attempts it will not be surprising if anyone ...
The boons and the curses function significantly in Vedas, Epics and Puranas. Sometime the boon becomes remedy over the curses, it leads to the development of the plot of they remain static in a way on the other hand.
Upanisadas refer to devotion, contemplation, sincere faith as means to the boon. The Upanisadas furnish in the Upanisadas we come across many stories, myths, and legends some of which have a boon as the motif.
There are works like stories of ...
Hindu Culture has evolved over thousands of years. Culture is not civilization for Indians. The three Vedas (Rik, Yajus, Sam) were called Trayividya, the three-fold science. The experiences described therein were real in the most fundamental sense. Perhaps no people in history have been as truthful as the ancient Aryans; and what they have left on record has to be taken seriously and not as the superstitious delusions of an unscientific age. This innate ...
As a tribute to the memory of Dr. K. V. Ramesh, a collection of essays is presented by scholars who admired and adored him. Dr. K. Ramesh, for whom this collection of essays is meant, was such a scholar, whose scholarship was widely acclaimed and applauded. An erudite scholar and accomplished epigraphist of high caliber Dr. Ramesh combined in himself the orthodoxy of old school of thought and recent trends in the Indian historiography. Dr. Ramesh was a versatile ...
The tradition of ceramic art, standing the vicissitudes in its course, has withstood until today and is drawing great enthusiasm from the art lovers and critics alike. In the present thesis, the study of this art form among the chalcolithic cultures in India is made, under two broad categories urban Chalcolithic cultures represented mainly by the Mature Harappan culture including its predecessors like the Hakra Wares culture and the Early Harappan culture which ...
The Ramayana is a great epic of the mankind. It is also known as Adi-kavya (first epic), written by the Adi-kavi (first poet) Valmiki. This famous Indian epic deals with social, moral, political, spiritual and philosophical aspects of human life, besides principally narrating the story of Rama. The Ramayana is highly popular epic which has become the property of the Indian people and it is not an exaggeration if it is said that it has influenced more than any ...
The Manusmriti is the most important and earliest metrical work of Dharmasastra textual tradition of Hinduism. It is a standard work on Hindu law. Indian tradition unanimously regards Manu as the first progenitor of the human race and also its first legislator. This Manu was believed to the founder of the social and moral order of society. Tracing backwards from the Smritis to the Vedas we found the consciousness of Manu’s being the first law giver present ...
This volume deals with the myths and legends of India, which survives to us in the rich and abundant storehouse of Sanskrit literature, and with the rise and growth of Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jainism, etc. The reader is introduced to the various sacred works of the Hindus, including the ancient invocatory hymns of the four Vedas, and great epic poems the Ramayana, which is three times longer than the Iliad, and the Mahabharata, which is four times longer than the ...
Besides the sporadic forays made into the realm of contemporary north Indian temples by few authors the above terrain remains more or less historicized, undocumented and underexplored. ‘Rejuvenation of Nagara Temples in the 19th and 20th Century (with special reference to Yamuna Par Plain)' aims precisely at this shoal of temples from the region of Delhi to Agra covering a cluster of thirty temples belonging to the previous two centuries. Analysis of art ...
A vision of India's earliest known past as reflects in her creative endeavor the specimens of which begin appearing some twelve thousand years ago on the walls of the nomad's rock-shelter, his first home as also the ever first to breed in him a feeling of belonging, the Indian Art and Architecture, the first of the series, covers in its thirteen chapters thirteen major styles of Indian art and architecture. It incorporates the material well researched by eminent ...
