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A Sanskrit Reader
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The Puraṇa Index
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
List of members in each volume.
Uttar Pradesh
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Journal of the American Oriental Society
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Cosmology of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
From the flat earth to the sun`s chariot traditional spiritual texts seem wedded to outmoded cosmologies that show, at best, the scientific limitations of their authors. The Bhagavata Purana, one of the classical scriptures of Hinduism, seems, at first glance, to be no exception. However, a closer examination of this text reveals unexpected depths of knowledge in ancient cosmology. This shows that the cosmology of the Bhagavata Purana is a sophisticated system, with multiple levels of meaning that encode at least four different astronomical, geographical, and spiritual world models. By viewing the text in the light of modern astronomy, Richard Thompson shows how ancient scientists expressed ...
Dictionary of Vedanta
(IVY)
