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Ever since the demolition of the `Baburi Masjid` at Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, we have been swamped with contentious literature on this topic by numerous scholars offering varied perspectives, resulting in division amongst politicians, historians and religious groups. The material presented in this book is based on critical historical analysis and a scientific study of the land rights of Janmasthan versus `Baburi Masjid` and dispels several misleading theories ...
This is a course designed to introduce the Sanskrit language to adults or children over the age of ten. Each chapter introduces some basic aspect of the language, with a story and exercises for the student to practice what he or she has learned.
Shiva occupies a premier position in Indian mythology as an important member of the Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu and Mahesh. Worshipped across India, and the theme of exquisite sculptures, bronzes and paintings, he comes across as a puzzle- a mahayogi, an ascetic, a maverick loner god who lives in crematoria, a loving father to sons Ganesha and Skanda, a husband to wife Parvati, a combination with Vishnu as Hariharan, and a unique place as Ardhnarishwar.
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This book is a collection of articles written by eminent scientists relating their research work on spices. This up-to-date data from different parts of the world will help the pharmacists analysts botanists toxicologists, chemists, pharmacognosists and biochemists to learn more about the important properties of major spices. The book focuses on the medicinal properties as well as health benefits of some important spices that are daily used in our diet and also ...
This volume, through dealing with the administrative units of the Mughal Empire, is a critical study of the entire Mughal land revenue apparatus. The papers presented in this volume give a comprehensive picture of the administrative jurisdiction, duties of the officials and the details of the working of the land revenue administration based on an in-depth study of the original Persian, English, Urdu and other sources found in different libraries and archives in ...
Papers presented at the Seminar on People's Role in the Uprising of 1857, held at New Delhi on 9th January 2008.
Collection of articles from the Indian historical quarterly, Indian antiquary, Indian culture, Calcutta review.
This book makes an initial investigation into T'ien-t'ai Chih-i's masterpiece The Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra (Hsuan-i) in an endeavor to unravel his systematic approach to elaborating Buddhism and his Buddhist philosophy in religious salvation. This book is divided into two volumes. Volume one concentrates on the uniqueness of the Hsuan-i and Chih-i's achievements in the Hsuan-i. As the embodiment of Chin-i's own philosophy, the coherent and integrated ...
Early Buddhism though propagated in different provincial dialects could not be appreciated by the common-folk in general. The insistence on retirement from worldly life was a great handicap in the way of its popularity; so during the first century of its existence, it remained confined to the recluses and monasteries, and hardly reached the home and the hearth. It was perhaps about a century after Buddha’s death that the religion became ...
The origin and spread of Buddhism has been a landmark in the history of Greater India (Maha Bharata or Brhattara Bharata) the boundaries of which covered a large part of Asia. As stated earlier, Sakyamuni, the Buddha, was the inheritor of an ancient, rich and varied cultural tradition of a very high order and he formulated and established a new culture out of it which was theoretically enlightening and practically redeeming from the labyrinth of suffering, ...
The present works covers the Sociological investigation on different aspects of the Indic names-of-persons, from linguistic point of view. It includes the whole country except the seven States in the north-east. The names selected for the study are those who flourished after the turn of the centry (1900). The Sociological Study has enabled to formulate the rules of cataloguing in conformity to AACR 2. In addition, guidelines have also been generated to help the ...
Based on Persian, Arabic and Turki sources as available in English translations as well as supplemented by the contemporary travellers' accounts and the factory records of the European companies from the beginning of the sixteenth century onwards, the work attempts to analyse the history of education in medieval India as a part of the wider study of history of society, social history broadly interpreted with the politics, the economics and the religion put into ...
It may be said that the Buddha is one of the most revolutionary thinkers and the holiest persons ever lived on the earth. He has been a beacon light not only for India or Asia but for the entire world. His advocacy of pursuit of Prajna and practice of Karuna, his vision of self-sameness with everyone (Paratma Samata), and zealous longing for eradication of suffering of others as one's own (Paratma Parivartana) cross all barriers of race, creed, country and even ...