The Vernacular Veda
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The Vernacular Veda
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Author : Vasudha Narayanan
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 1994
The Vernacular Veda written by Vasudha Narayanan and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Religion categories.
Compares the religious poem "Tiruvaymoli" alongside the "Vedas."
The Bazaar Book
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Author : Henry Martyn Scudder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1869
The Bazaar Book written by Henry Martyn Scudder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1869 with Christianity and other religions categories.
The Tamil Veda
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Author : John Carman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1989-05-17
The Tamil Veda written by John Carman 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 1989-05-17 with Philosophy categories.
In this multifaceted work, John Carman and Vasudha Narayanan clarify historical developments in South Asian religion and make important contributions to the methodology of textual interpretation and the comparative study of world religions.
The Ocean Of Inquiry
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Author : Michael S. Allen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
The Ocean Of Inquiry written by Michael S. Allen 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 2022 with Philosophy categories.
"Advaita Vedåanta is one of the best-known schools of Indian philosophy, but much of its history-a history closely interwoven with that of medieval and modern Hinduism-remains surprisingly unexplored. This book focuses on a single remarkable work and its place within that history: The Ocean of Inquiry, a vernacular compendium of Advaita Vedåanta by the North Indian monk Niâscaldåas (ca. 1791 - 1863). Though not well known today, Niâscaldåas's work was once referred to by Vivekananda (himself a key figure in the shaping of modern Hinduism) as the most influential book in India. The present book situates The Ocean of Inquiry as a representative of both a neglected genre (vernacular Vedåanta) and a neglected period (ca. 17th-19th centuries) in the history of Indian philosophy. It argues that the rise of Advaita Vedåanta to a position of prestige began well before the period of British rule in India, and that vernacular texts like The Ocean of Inquiry played an important role in popularizing Vedåantic teachings. It also offers a new appraisal of the period of late Advaita Vedåanta, arguing that it should not be seen as one of barren scholasticism. For thinkers like Niâscaldåas, intellectual "inquiry" (vicåara) was not an academic exercise but a spiritual practice-indeed, it was the central practice on the path to liberation. The book concludes by arguing that without understanding both vernacular Vedåanta and the scholasticism of the period, one cannot fully understand the emergence of modern Hinduism"--
Writing Tamil Catholicism
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Author : Margherita Trento
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2022-05-02
Writing Tamil Catholicism written by Margherita Trento and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-02 with History categories.
In Writing Tamil Catholicism: Literature, Persuasion and Devotion in the Eighteenth Century, Margherita Trento explores the process by which the Jesuit missionary Costanzo Giuseppe Beschi (1680-1747), in collaboration with a group of local lay elites identified by their profession as catechists, chose Tamil poetry as the social and political language of Catholicism in eighteenth-century South India. Trento analyzes a corpus of Tamil grammars and poems, chiefly Beschi’s Tēmpāvaṇi, alongside archival documents to show how, by presenting themselves as poets and intellectuals, Catholic elites gained a persuasive voice as well as entrance into the learned society of the Tamil country and its networks of patronage. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 840879.
Sonic Liturgy
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Author : Guy L. Beck
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2012-12-12
Sonic Liturgy written by Guy L. Beck and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-12 with Religion categories.
Sonic Liturgy: Ritual and Music in Hindu Tradition builds on the foundation of Guy L. Beck's earlier work, which described the theoretical role of sound in Hindu thought. Sonic Liturgy continues the discussion of sound into the realm of Hindu ritual and musical traditions of worship. Beginning with the chanting of the Sama-Veda alongside the fire sacrifices of the ancient Indo-Aryans and with the classical Gandharva music as outlined in the musicological texts of Bharata and Dattila, Beck establishes a historical foundation for an in-depth understanding of the role of music in the early Puja rituals and Indian theater in the vernacular poetry of the Bhakti movements in medieval temple worship of Siva and Vishnu in southern India, and later in the worship of Krishna in the northern Braj region. By surveying a multitude of worship traditions, Beck reveals a continuous template of interwoven ritual and music in Hindu tradition that he terms "sonic liturgy," a structure of religious worship and experience that incorporates sound and music on many levels. In developing the concept and methods for understanding the phenomenon of sonic liturgy, Beck draws from liturgical studies and ritual studies, broadening the dimensions of each, as well as from recent work in the fields of Indian religion and music. As he maps the evolution of sonic liturgy in Hindu culture, Beck shows how, parallel to the development of religious ritual from ancient times to the present, there is a less understood progression of musical form, beginning with Vedic chants of two to three notes to complicated genres of devotional temple music employing ragas with up to a dozen notes. Sonic liturgy in its maturity is manifest as a complex interactive worship experience of the Vaishnava sects, presented here in Beck's final chapters.
Fables And Proverbs From The Sanskrit
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Author : Charles Wilkins
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-09
Fables And Proverbs From The Sanskrit written by Charles Wilkins and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-09 with categories.
From the INTRODUCTION. In the family of languages to which English belongs, the. Indo-European Family, Sanskrit is eldest brother. The parent language was spoken in a remote prehistoric time by a people living somewhere about the five rivers of the Punjaub. By migrations of that people westward there were afterwards established all the nations of the Iranian, Slavonic, Celtic, Teutonic and Classical stocks. The parent language, Aryan, has itself long since been lost ; but its words,' subjected to regular varieties of change, have passed into many lands. Additions have been many, but those words of which the roots are common to us all, bear witness to the common origin of the chief nations of Europe, and to their brotherhood with races now in India. Descendants of that remote prehistoric Aryan people, who remained in India and were less remote, but also prehistoric; spoke Sanskrit. They left in their own tongue sacred books, by which Sanskrit was established as a classical language. It was cultivated by the religious orders and used, as the language in which all high religious teaching was enshrined. Thus its grammar was studied and preserved, and the language itself, first born of the old Aryan, has been maintained in its purity until this day. As the vernacular speech of a living people, applied to all their common daily wants, Sanskrit has not been used within the memory of man, but in some parts of India the vernacular does not differ from it very greatly. The oldest Sanskrit books are at the fountain-head of European literature. These are the four Vedas, regarded as the source of all other Sastras or sacred books. The Vedas are written in an" Iambic measure of eight syllables, and the earliest of them have been assigned by Sir William Jones to a date as early as 1 500 years before Christ. The word Veda means knowledge, but though names of authors of the several parts were preserved, the whole was taken to mean inspired knowledge, "the self-evident word proceeding out of, the mouth of God, this is the Veda." The first of the Vedas, called Rig from a word meaning praise, expresses the relations . between man and God. The second, called Yajur, from a word meaning - worship, contains instructions upon ceremonial. The third, called Sama, from a word signifying a prayer arranged for singing, contains pieces arranged as chants. Atharva, the fourth Veda, less ancient than the rest, contains forms of imprecation, prayers, hymns, and fifty-two theological treatises called Upanishads. Atharvan is referred to in it as a king appointed by Brahma to protect inferior beings. There are also detached Upanishads which are regarded as of less authority than the fifty-two contained in the Atharva-Veda. The Upanishads, or argumentative parts of the Vedas, are regarded as forming the Jnana, or philosophical part of the sacred books, and theological argument is based on these; the parts devoted to pure teaching of the religious system, its customs, sacrifices, ceremonies, form the Brahmanas; and the prayers and hymns in each Veda constitute its Sanhita....
Exploring The Senses
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Author : Axel Michaels
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-19
Exploring The Senses written by Axel Michaels and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-19 with Social Science categories.
This fascinating volume offers a transdisciplinary and transcultural approach to understanding the senses by exploring themes in anthropologies of sound, sight, smell, taste, touch, and movement as expressed through aesthetic, perceptual, religious, and spiritual experiences. In drawing upon comparative perspectives from Indian and Western theories, the essays demonstrate the integral relation of senses with each other as well as with allied notions of the body, emotion and cultural memory. Stressing the continued relevance of senses as they manifest in a globalized world under the influence of new media, this work will interest scholars of anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, ritual studies, psychology, religion, philosophy, and history.
Original Sanskrit Texts On The Origin And Progress Of The Religion And Institutions Of India The Trans Himalayan Origin Of The Hindus And Their Affinity With The Western Branches Of The Arian Race
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Author : John Muir
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Original Sanskrit Texts On The Origin And Progress Of The Religion And Institutions Of India The Trans Himalayan Origin Of The Hindus And Their Affinity With The Western Branches Of The Arian Race written by John Muir and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Brahmanism categories.
Religious Traditions In Modern South Asia
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Author : Jacqueline Suthren Hirst
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-03
Religious Traditions In Modern South Asia written by Jacqueline Suthren Hirst and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with Religion categories.
This book offers a fresh approach to the study of religion in modern South Asia. It uses a series of case studies to explore the development of religious ideas and practices, giving students an understanding of the social, political and historical context.