Somnath The Shrine Eternal
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Somanatha The Shrine Eternal
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Author : Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
Somanatha The Shrine Eternal written by Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Gujarat (India) categories.
Study on the archeological remains of the Shaivaite Somanatha Temple of Gujarat and on the history of its construction.
Somnath
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Author : Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Somnath written by Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Somnāth (India) categories.
Somanath The Shrine Eternal
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Author : Kanhaiyālāla Maṇikalāla Munśī
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952
Somanath The Shrine Eternal written by Kanhaiyālāla Maṇikalāla Munśī and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Somnåath, India categories.
Somnath The Shrine Eternal
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Author : Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1951
Somnath The Shrine Eternal written by Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1951 with Somnāth, India categories.
India
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Author : Diana L Eck
language : en
Publisher: Harmony
Release Date : 2012-03-27
India written by Diana L Eck and has been published by Harmony this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-27 with Religion categories.
In India: A Sacred Geography, renowned Harvard scholar Diana Eck offers an extraordinary spiritual journey through the pilgrimage places of the world's most religiously vibrant culture and reveals that it is, in fact, through these sacred pilgrimages that India’s very sense of nation has emerged. No matter where one goes in India, one will find a landscape in which mountains, rivers, forests, and villages are elaborately linked to the stories of the gods and heroes of Indian culture. Every place in this vast landscape has its story, and conversely, every story of Hindu myth and legend has its place. Likewise, these places are inextricably tied to one another—not simply in the past, but in the present—through the local, regional, and transregional practices of pilgrimage. India: A Sacred Geography tells the story of the pilgrim’s India. In these pages, Diana Eck takes the reader on an extraordinary spiritual journey through the living landscape of this fascinating country –its mountains, rivers, and seacoasts, its ancient and powerful temples and shrines. Seeking to fully understand the sacred places of pilgrimage from the ground up, with their stories, connections and layers of meaning, she acutely examines Hindu religious ideas and narratives and shows how they have been deeply inscribed in the land itself. Ultimately, Eck shows us that from these networks of pilgrimage places, India’s very sense of region and nation has emerged. This is the astonishing and fascinating picture of a land linked for centuries not by the power of kings and governments, but by the footsteps of pilgrims. India: A Sacred Geography offers a unique perspective on India, both as a complex religious culture and as a nation. Based on her extensive knowledge and her many decades of wide-ranging travel and research, Eck's piercing insights and a sweeping grasp of history ensure that this work will be in demand for many years to come.
Somanatha
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Author : Romila Thapar
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2008-06-19
Somanatha written by Romila Thapar and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-19 with Literary Collections categories.
In 1026, Sultan Mahmud of Ghazni raided the Hindu temple of Somanatha (Somnath in textbooks of the colonial period). The story of the raid has reverberated in Indian history, but largely during the raj. It was first depicted as a trauma for the Hindu population not in India, but in the House of Commons. The triumphalist accounts of the event in Turko-Persian chronicles became the main source for most eighteenth-century historians. It suited everyone and helped the British to divide and rule a multi-millioned subcontinent. In her new book, Romila Thapar, the doyenne of Indian historians, reconstructs what took place by studying other sources, including local Sanskrit inscriptions, biographies of kings and merchants of the period, court epics and popular narratives that have survived. The result is astounding and undermines the traditional version of what took place. What makes her findings explosive is the fact that the current Hindu nationalist regime in India constantly utilizes a particular version of history
The Concept Of Rudra Iva Through The Ages
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Author : Mahadev Chakravarti
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Release Date : 1986
The Concept Of Rudra Iva Through The Ages written by Mahadev Chakravarti and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Religion categories.
The present book throws new light on the gradual development of the concept of Rudra-Siva in his animal, phallic and human forms, since the days of the Harappa Civilization. It examines how Siva, the composite Aryan-non-Aryan Divinity, was not only admitted but was ultimately crowned with an exalted position in the Brahmanical pantheon; how the bull once identified with the deity, was regulated to the position of a vahana; how phallism was related to Saivism and also how Siva, in his different forms, was represented in early Indian Art and the Art of Further India. The wide range and depth of the author's research fills a vital gap in the subject and his treatment of the entire subject is unique. This methodical study on Siva also contains an exhaustive bibliography.
Framing The Jina
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Author : John Cort
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2010-01-21
Framing The Jina written by John Cort and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-01-21 with Religion categories.
John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India. Most of these narratives portray icons favorably, and so justify their existence; but there are also narratives originating among iconoclastic Jain communities that see the existence of temple icons as a sign of decay and corruption. The veneration of Jina icons is one of the most widespread of all Jain ritual practices. Nearly every Jain community in India has one or more elaborate temples, and as the Jains become a global community there are now dozens of temples in North America, Europe, Africa, and East Asia. The cult of temples and icons goes back at least two thousand years, and indeed the largest of the four main subdivisions of the Jains are called Murtipujakas, or "Icon Worshipers." A careful reading of narratives ranging over the past 15 centuries, says Cort, reveals a level of anxiety and defensiveness concerning icons, although overt criticism of the icons only became explicit in the last 500 years. He provides detailed studies of the most important pro- and anti-icon narratives. Some are in the form of histories of the origins and spread of icons. Others take the form of cosmological descriptions, depicting a vast universe filled with eternal Jain icons. Finally, Cort looks at more psychological explanations of the presence of icons, in which icons are defended as necessary spiritual corollaries to the very fact of human embodiedness.
Building Histories
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Author : Mrinalini Rajagopalan
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03-01
Building Histories written by Mrinalini Rajagopalan and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-01 with Architecture categories.
Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi—the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and the Qutb complex—tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. Mrinalini Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the history of these monuments entailed the careful selection, manipulation, and regulation of the past by both the colonial and later postcolonial states. Although framed as objective “archival” truths, these histories were meant to erase or marginalize the powerful and persistent affective appropriations of the monuments by groups who often existed outside the center of power. By analyzing these archival and affective histories together, Rajagopalan works to redefine the historic monument—far from a symbol of a specific past, the monument is shown in Building Histories to be a culturally mutable object with multiple stories to tell.
Lomaharshini
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Author : Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Lomaharshini written by Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.