Motilal Banarsidass
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Silpa Prakasa by Ramacandra Mahapatra Kaula Bhattaraka: Medieval Orissan Sanskrit text on temple Architecture
Silpa Prakasa by Ramacandra Mahapatra Kaula Bhattaraka: Medieval Orissan Sanskrit text on temple Architecture
“The Silpa Prakasais an important addition to the existing literature on Indian Silpa Texts.” the text goes into a great detail of the architecture, the iconography and the symbolism of all the parts of the temple. Its unique contribution lies in the description of Yantras or symbolic diagrams underlying the architecture as well as sculpture. This edition will be extremely valuable for understanding not only temple construction but the entire symbolism underlying the unique temples of Orissa.
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Insights Into the Bhagavad Gita
Vimala Thakar gave a series of inspired talks on the Bhagavad Gita in three separate seminars, during 1992 and 1993 in Italy. To her Bhagavad Gita is very sacred because it deals with the organic wholeness of life; and the inbuilt complexity of life, It affirms the interplay between the micrecosm and macrocosm and persuadesus to remain united with the ultimate reality, not only to intellectual understanding, but through everything that we do, at every moment.
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” The book is indeed a product of author’s realization and deep spiritual insights on the mental anguish and obstacles such as ego of Arjuna, which are specified timely by Krishna, as teacher, referring appropriate example from the holy Gita and his etern
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Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India
Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India
It deals in detail with the Sulbasutras in the Vedic literature, with the mathematical parts of Jaina Canonical works and of the Hindu Siddhantas and with the contributions to geometry made by the astronomer mathematicians Aryabhata I II, Sripati, Bhaskara I II, Sangamagrama Madhava, Paramesvara, Nilakantha, his disciples and a host of others. The works of the mathematicians Mahavira, Sridhara and Narayana Pandita and the Bakshali Manuscript have also been studied. The work seeks to explode the theory that the Indian mathematical genius was predominantly algebraic and computational and that it eschewed proofs and rationales.
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Inscriptions of Orissa (Vol. 1): (Vol.I: Circa Fifth-Eight Centuries A.D.)
Inscriptions of Orissa (Vol. 1): (Vol.I: Circa Fifth-Eight Centuries A.D.)
The present volume inscriptions of orissa, the result of the intellectual labour, covers a subject
of immense value for those interested in the reconstruction of ancient and
mediaeval history and culture of Orissa, the major part of which is still
in darkness. Based on the original documents in the form of copper plate
and stone records, discovered from different parts of Orissa, it presents
almost a complete picture of the history and culture of the period (C.A.D.
5th-8th century A.D.) in Orissa as part of the wider scene that obtained in
the Indian sub-continent.
The volume deals with as many as sixty valuable epigraphic records that
fall within the period set for the book which have been divided into five
sections along with an extensive introductory analysis of the texts studied
from various aspects. It presents a chronologically classified list of
inscriptions which are of undoubted historical importance. In its
originality of materials and the manner of presentation, the volume is sure
to remain a source book for the research scholars in this field of their
study.
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