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Taking a comparative approach which considers characters that are shared across the narrative traditions of early Indian religions (Brahmanical Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism) Shared Characters in Jain, Buddhist and Hindu Narrative explores key religious and social ideals, as well as points of contact, dialogue and contention between different worldviews. The book focuses on three types of character - gods, heroes and kings - that are of particular importance to early South Asian narrative traditions because of their relevance to the concerns of the day, such as the role of deities, the qualities of a true hero or good ruler and the tension between worldly responsibilities and the pursuit of...
In this volume, leading American, European, and Indian scholars including John E. Cort, Friedhelm Hardy, Padmanabh S. Jaini, Laurie L. Patton, A. K. Ramanujan, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and David Shulman discuss the subject of the Purāṇas, focusing particularly on the relationship between the "Great Puran'as" of the Sanskrit tradition and the many other sorts of Purāṇas. The Puran'as are essentially collections of stories dealing with all aspects of myth, ritual, science, and history, and the authors of these essays are all superb storytellers.
Maithili Has A Long Tradition Of At Least Seven Hundred Years; Being On Centre Stage In The Whole Of North-Eastern India Including Nepal. It Has Inspired The Growth Of Literature In The Entire Region. The Present Work Endeavours To Supplement The Earlier Work By Dr. Jayakant Mishra, (Sahitya Akademi, 1976) By Updating, Elaborating And Analysing The Latest Trends; It Dwells At Length On Contemporary Literature In All Its Forms, Focusing On The Spirit Of Mithila Today. A Careful Study Of Its Salient Features Will Show How Modern Maithili Literature Is Striving To Catch Up With Other Indian Literatures. Now That Maithili Is On The National Map, The Present Work Has In Mind The General Reader Who May Not Be Conversant With The Current Growth Of Maithili.
The 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study of text and art in close combination in the actual field where they meet provides a great potential for understanding. The history of holy places is therefore one of the leitmotivs that binds these studies together. One article, "The Ramtek Inscriptions II", was co-authored by Harunaga Isaacson, two articles, on "Moksadharma 187 and 239–241" and "The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon," by Peter C. Bisschop.
(c)२०००- २०२२। विदेह: प्रथम मैथिली पाक्षिक ई-पत्रिका ISSN 2229-547X VIDEHA (since 2004). सम्पादक: गजेन्द्र ठाकुर। Editor: Gajendra Thakur. In respect of materials e-published in Videha, the Editor, Videha holds the right to create the web archives/ theme-based web archives, right to translate/ transliterate those archives and create translated/ transliterated web-archives; and the right to e-publish/ print-publish all these archives. रचनाकार/ संग्रहकर्त्ता अपन मौलिक आ अप्रकाशित रचना/ स...
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