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Tracing the origin of Theravada Buddhism to Hindu Brahmanism and spread of the Buddhist scholars to South-east Asia and the Far East, the book deals with the principles of this primeval form of Buddhism. It describes the history of Buddhism, especially Theravada Buddhism: the four Buddhist councils, appearance of the new form of Buddhism, emergence of various Buddhist sects, and the transition of Theravada Buddhism into a new type where local cults, mantras, ...
A change creates some motion leading to a force. In social science, time and location and changing conditionality play an important role in the change from one point to another. Dimension is the different aspect or feature or yet again different perception of anything that might be a subject or object.In social sciences this significant term is occasionally applied to a change or changes in the context of time and location. Human culture is pluralistic and ...
The present work aims at discussing the nature of causality from the viewpoint of Indian philosophy on the basis of original texts. It mainly deals with the cause-effect relation as advocated and defended by the Nyaya-Vaisesika and in order to give a comparative idea I have also discussed the Samkhya, Mimamsa, Vedanta and Bauddha views in this regard.
Ancient Indian polity has been accepted as an interesting subject of study by the scholars for many years. Indian as well as western scholars have thrown light, through their research works, on different political ideas and institutions of ancient India. One of such curious aspects of our ancient polity is the institution of spying. Some scholars have made incidental references to this institution and made occasional comments on it, but no completely separate and ...
The Padyavali of Rupa Gosvamin is in many respects a unique work of mediaeval Bengal. Apart from its value as one of the well known anthologies of Sanskrit literature, its connexion with the Vaisnava movement of Bengal gives it an added interest and importance. Its author, a scholar and devotee, was a well known disciple of Caitanya, the founder of Bengal Vaisnavism; and as an authoritative teacher and exponent of its doctrines he became the centre of its arduous ...
Affixation of secondary suffixes occupies a most important place among the schemes of word-integration in Sanskrit construed in terms of grammar. Interpreting words with this device is well-known to all. In each and every system of Sanskrit Grammar, treatment of derivatives with secondary suffixes constitutes a most important aspect of morphological study of the language. Grammarians of later ages discussed the subject thoroughly in terms of both morphology and ...
Deities occupy a prominent position in the Vedic literature. Not only in the Samitas but also in the Brahmanas we come across a host of divinities who play an important role from the standpoints of religion and mythology. In the two Rgvedic Brahmanas, viz., the Aitareya and the Sankhayana, certain Gods have become more powerful than their Rgvedic counterparts, while others have faded into the background. Besides this, a plethora of major Gods have been ...
The Vedas can be conveniently described as books of offerings-offerings of prayers, material objects, symbolic objects and the self. The orthodox tradition, however, defines the Vedas as a mass of literature consisting of Mantras and Brahmanas i.e. prayers and their applications. The Brahmanas are again divided into three parts-objective rituals, subjective rituals and cosmic rituals or philosophical speculations. These three parts are known as Brahmanas proper, ...
This book explores an exciting area of research study blending music and linguistics together. The book contains a linguistic analysis of modern Bengali songs from forties till seventies, with reference to language, form and content, metre and melody by applying linguistic methodology. A number of works on Modern Bengali Songs have so far been made by different scholars from the literary point of view, as regards their development, composition, tune, lyrics and ...
