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The book Jain Studies-Selected Papers is a series of 25 research articles. All the articles deal with various aspects of Jainism. A few of them are related to Prakrit which was originally presumed to have been used by early preceptors of Jainism. Some other articles are based on the study of the Vasudevahindi, composed around the 3rd or 4th Century AD in archaic Jain Maharashtri, which is said to be one of the lost versions of Gunadhya's Brhatkatha, written in ...
The Encyclopaedia is a reliable basis for the knowledge of various customs and beliefs as they are found from the principal (eighteen) Puranas. Unlike other works that collected information regarding various personalities and dynasties, the present on the social perspective, information regarding persons is jotted only where there is a belief attached to such personalities. Here we have information on more than 500 subjects. The method of references followed is ...
Medieval south India saw a resurgence in religious experience culminating in the great temple art of the Cholas. Time and again, both in architecture and sculpture, it is the artists' feeling for form and visual design that is reflected. What were the causes that went into the making of this inimitable Chola style? Prevalent consensus of opinions is based on the archaeological perceptions of influences from neighbouring kingdoms and of a transition caused by ...
The present monograph deals with two different forms of traditional theatre of south India, the teyyam of north Kerala and bhutaradhana of south Karnataka. Sita K. Nambiar, an eminent Sanskrit scholar, has made an indepth study of these dance forms in their cultural context. The origin and evolution of the ritual arts of teyyam and bhutaradhana was perhaps due to man's fear for some unknown forces of nature which afflicted the folk with unexpected tragedies, ...