Siva in Art, Literature, and Thought
Author : Shanti Lal Nagar
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : Shanti Lal Nagar
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Art
ISBN :
Author : C. Sivaramamurti
Publisher :
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Dance
ISBN :
Aesthetic and esoteric interpretation of the cosmic dance of Shiva, Hindu deity.
Author : Leela Prasad
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231139209
Leela Prasad's riveting book presents everyday stories on subjects such as deities, ascetics, cats, and cooking along with stylized, publicly delivered ethical discourse, and shows that the study of oral narrative and performance is essential to ethical inquiry. Prasad builds on more than a decade of her ethnographic research in the famous Hindu pilgrimage town of Sringeri, Karnataka, in southwestern India, where for centuries a vibrant local culture has flourished alongside a tradition of monastic authority. Oral narratives and the seeing-and-doing orientations that are part of everyday life compel the question: How do individuals imagine the normative, and negotiate and express it, when normative sources are many and diverging? Moral persuasiveness, Prasad suggests, is intimately tied to the aesthetics of narration, and imagination plays a vital role in shaping how people create, refute, or relate to "text," "moral authority," and "community." Lived understandings of ethics keep notions of text and practice in flux and raise questions about the constitution of "theory" itself. Prasad's innovative use of ethnography, poetics, philosophy of language, and narrative and performance studies demonstrates how the moral self, with a capacity for artistic expression, is dynamic and gendered, with a historical presence and a political agency.
Author : S. Kramrisch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 19,64 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0691224226
One of the three great gods of Hinduism, Siva is a living god. The most sacred and most ancient book of India, The Rg Veda, evokes his presence in its hymns; Vedic myths, rituals, and even astronomy testify to his existence from the dawn of time. In a lively meditation on Siva--based on original Sanskrit texts, many translated here for the first time--Stella Kramrisch ponders the metaphysics, ontology, and myths of Siva from the Vedas and the Puranas. Who is Siva? Who is this god whose being comprises and transcends everything? From the dawn of creation, the Wild God, the Great Yogi, the sum of all opposites, has been guardian of the absolute. By retelling and interweaving the many myths that keep Siva alive in India today, Kramrisch reveals the paradoxes in Siva's nature and thus in the nature of consciousness itself.
Author : Madhu Jaina
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 15,3 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788173870309
Saivism as practised in Jaunsar-Bawar, India; a study.
Author : Saurav Mohapatra
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781934413081
Originally published in comic book form.
Author : Mahadev Chakravarti
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788120800533
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.
Author : Heinrich Robert Zimmer
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 32,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Hindu art
ISBN : 9788120807518
This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.
Author : Omacanda Hāṇḍā
Publisher : Indus Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9788173871030
Author : Saroj Panthey
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 36,2 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788170990161