Indian Linguistic Studies

Indian Linguistic Studies
Author: Madhav Deshpande
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2002
Genre: Indo-Iranian philology
ISBN: 9788120818859

Eminent scholaars of Indian Liguistics have offered insightful articles in honor of Prof. George Cardona, a luminary in the field of Indo-European, Indo-Aryan, and Paninian Studies for the past four decades. Besides Cardona`s bibliography, the volume contains 23 papers in the following areas: 1. Sanskrit Grammatical Theory; 2. Karaka Studies; 3. Historical Studies in Grammatical Traditions; 4. Lexical Studies; 5. Studies in Culture; 6. Modern Indian Languages. This volume represents cutting-edge research in the field of Indian Linguistic and Culture.

The Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs

The Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs
Author: Matthew Clark
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9047410025

This book provides an account of the organisation, practices and history of the Daśanāmī-Saṃnyāsīs, one of the largest sects of sādhu-s (‘holy men’) in South Asia, founded, according to tradtion, by the legendary philosopher Śaṅkarācārya.

Indian Philosophy and Text Science

Indian Philosophy and Text Science
Author: Toshihiro Wada
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 8120834054

The present book aims at clarifying various aspects of Indian philosophy by applying concepts used in text science towards their analysis. Text science attempts to establish universal rules which apply to all forms of human expression. If we regard all human expression, 'including behaviour', as communication, it contains a meaning-system whether it has the form of language or not. The human expression may be classified as language, figure, body action, and so forth; we consider all these forms of expression to be texts, for which there must apply universal rules. The aim of text science is to explain how these rules function throughout various types of texts and thus provide a better understanding of human behaviour. Here the direction of analysis is from context to text. It is also possible to move from the text. It is also possible to move from text to context. We can arrive at a new context from texts such as commentaries, which context cannot be discovered through reading only one of those texts. Such a context will certainly help us coherently interpret other texts related to the texts. The concept of context and these two directions of analysis may not be necessarily new tools to scholars of Indian studies, who often adopt this method unconsciously. However, we aim to use this method consciously here. It is an underlying principle of this book that in order to understand texts, written in Sanskrit or other languages, we need to turn our attention towards factors outside of them, such as information provided by other areas of study, which factors we call context.

Salvation in Indian Philosophy

Salvation in Indian Philosophy
Author: Ionut Moise
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-11-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1000764990

This book offers a comprehensive description of the ‘doctrine of salvation’ (niḥśreyasa/ mokṣa) and Vaiśeṣika, one of the oldest philosophical systems of Indian philosophy and provides an overview of theories in other related Indian philosophical systems and classical doctrines of salvation. The book examines liberation, the fourth goal of life and arguably one of the most important topics in Indian philosophy, from a comparative philosophical perspective. Contextualising classical Greek Philosophy which contains the three goals of life (Aristotle’s Ethics), and explains salvation as first understood in the theology of the Hellenistic and Patristics periods, the author analyses six classical philosophical schools of Indian philosophy in which there is a marked emphasis on the ultimate ontological elements of the world and ‘self’. Analysing Vaiśeṣika and the manner in which this lesser known system has put forward its own theory of salvation (niḥśreyasa), the author demonstrates its significance and originality as an old and influential philosophical system. He argues that it is essential for the study of other Indian sciences and for the study of all comparative philosophy. An extensive introduction to Indian soteriology, this book will be an important reference work for academics interested in comparative religion and philosophy, Indian philosophy, Asian religion and South Asian Studies.

Professor M. Hiriyanna Birth Centenary Commemoration Volume, 1871-1971

Professor M. Hiriyanna Birth Centenary Commemoration Volume, 1871-1971
Author: Mysore Hiriyanna
Publisher: Mysore : Published for the Professor M. Hiriyanna Birth Centenary Celebrations Committee by Prasaranga, University of Mysore
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1972
Genre: Hindu philosophy
ISBN:

Articles on Hindu philosophy, Sanskrit language and literature, and Mysore Hiriyanna, 1871-1950, an Indologist.

Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies

Recent Research in Pāṇinian Studies
Author: George Cardona
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1999
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9788120816374

The present volume is a continuation of the bibliography and study presented in Panini, A Survey of Research, first published in the Netherlands (The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1976), subsequently published in India (Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1980) and reprinted in 1997. The basic format adopted for the first survey is observed here: a bibliography of major work done since 1975, including materials which came to the author`s knowledge up to December of 1997, is followed by his appraisal of this work with extensive references to primary sources which are the bases of scholarly discussions and notes.

Seeing through Texts

Seeing through Texts
Author: Francis Xavier Clooney
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780791429952

These unique songs, dedicated to the Hindu god Visnu/Krsna, lead us through poetic and imaginative, philosophical and moral reflections on the nature of the self and the world, ancient myths and temple worship, and the mystical moods of longing, desire, and love in which one seeks, loses, and finds again the God who loves us first.