Vedic Sagacity

Vedic Sagacity
Author: Dheeraj Verma
Publisher: Educreation Publishing
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2021-06-29
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9390519284

This book is written with the ulterior motive of trying to change people’s way of life while complementing and enhancing their knowledge with nectarine anecdotes from shastras. It talks about the different domains of our lives, fetching solutions to our day-to-day problems keeping the knowledge of Vedic scriptures as a base. Readers get a chance to walk through the bridge between the ancient principles and their modern applications, discussing the glorious lelas of the Lord.

Vedic Symbolism

Vedic Symbolism
Author: Satya Prakash Singh
Publisher:
Total Pages: 710
Release: 2001
Genre: Hindu mythology
ISBN:

Vedic Voices

Vedic Voices
Author: David M. Knipe
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2015
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199397686

For countless generations families have lived in isolated communities in the Godavari Delta of coastal Andhra Pradesh, learning and reciting their legacy of Vedas, performing daily offerings and occasional sacrifices. They are the virtually unrecognized survivors of a 3,700-year-old heritage, the last in India who perform the ancient animal and soma sacrifices according to Vedic tradition. In Vedic Voices, David M. Knipe offers for the first time, an opportunity for them to speak about their lives, ancestral lineages, personal choices as pandits, wives, children, and ways of coping with an avalanche of changes in modern India. He presents a study of four generations of ten families, from those born at the outset of the twentieth century down to their great-grandsons who are just beginning, at the age of seven, the task of memorizing their Veda, the Taittiriya Samhita, a feat that will require eight to twelve years of daily recitations. After successful examinations these young men will reside with the Veda family girls they married as children years before, take their places in the oral transmission of a three-thousand-year Vedic heritage, teach the Taittiriya collection of texts to their own sons, and undertake with their wives the major and minor sacrifices performed by their ancestors for some three millennia. Coastal Andhra, famed for bountiful rice and coconut plantations, has received scant attention from historians of religion and anthropologists despite a wealth of cultural traditions. Vedic Voices describes in captivating prose the geography, cultural history, pilgrimage traditions, and celebrated persons of the region. Here unfolds a remarkable story of Vedic pandits and their wives, one scarcely known in India and not at all to the outside world.

Rāsalīlā

Rāsalīlā
Author: Selina Thielemann
Publisher: APH Publishing
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1998
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9788170248644

A Comprehensive Account Of The Musical Elements Of Rasalila, Focuses As An Indepth Analysis Of The Rasalila Performance. An Extensive Photographic Documentations Displayed On 58 Colour Plates Concerns Its Preparations, Musical Instruments And Scans And Their Various Aspects.

THE SAGA OF NARAVAHANADATTA

THE SAGA OF NARAVAHANADATTA
Author: Dr. K.C. Sekhar
Publisher: Notion Press
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2019-08-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1645467651

The setting of the stories is India in the 10th and 11th centuries, when the country was made of many small kingdoms and fiefdoms. There was a profusion of monarchs with dynastic ambitions and a desire for territorial aggrandisement. The king was usually advised by an intelligent and devoted Brahman minister. The heir apparent, the crown prince, had a circle of friends, mostly sons of the king’s ministers, who would be incorporated into the cabinet when the prince would become king. Dynastic intrigue was rife, and matrimonial alliances were often a strategy to expand the kingdom, together with befriending tribal communities to win their support. The kings were invariably polygamous and maintained large harems. The Brihatkatha, or Lord Shiva’s narrative to his wife Parvati, is presumed to confer the power of the celestial Vidyadharas to its readers, ridding them of all their sins and assuring them a place in heaven. The roller-coaster variety of telescoped stories form a complex garland from one narrative to another, with the possibility of losing touch with the main thread. Each story is gripping, quaint, and carries a moral or a message for the reader, who may, instead of reading the book from cover to cover, read the chapters randomly. The book is a treasure chest, a work of art, with its own secret internal geometry as well as myriad fascinating and often amusing stories.

The Great Vedic Tales

The Great Vedic Tales
Author: P. Narahari, IAS
Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2022-05-31
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9355213611

Ancient Indians developed and discovered many techniques that made human life simpler and advanced materially but never struck to this kind of advancement. They certainly believe that human excellence depends on the development of art. That being the reason, ancient India was the first civilisation to inculcate art, drama, dance, music and poetry into human life with the spiritual aspect of it. It also developed the finest language that helped them to express their experiences artistically and efficiently. This rich heritage of ancient India earned many admirers across the boundaries of regions and religions. Mark Twain being an aficionado of Indian heritage spoke many things to appreciate Indian traditions and culture: “India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legends and the great grandmother of tradition. Our most valuable and the most constructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.” "The Great Vedic Tales" by P. Narahari, IAS and Prathviraj Singh: This book, co-authored by P. Narahari, IAS, and Prathviraj Singh, likely presents a collection of stories and narratives from the Vedas, ancient Indian scriptures. These tales may carry spiritual, moral, or philosophical significance. Key Aspects of the Book "The Great Vedic Tales": Vedic Narratives: The book explores the rich storytelling tradition within the Vedas, offering readers access to ancient Indian wisdom. Spiritual Insights: P. Narahari, IAS, and Prathviraj Singh may provide interpretations and reflections on the spiritual and philosophical aspects of the Vedic tales. Cultural Heritage: "The Great Vedic Tales" contributes to the preservation and dissemination of India's cultural and spiritual heritage. Both P. Narahari, IAS and Prathviraj Singh are likely authors or scholars with expertise in Vedic literature and philosophy.

The Vedas

The Vedas
Author: Arlo Griffiths
Publisher: Groningen Oriental Studies
Total Pages: 680
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

Description: Preface (A. Griffiths and J.E.M. Houben) Introduction (J.E.M. Houben) PART I: TEXTUAL HISTORY AND INTERPRETATION - S.S. Bahulkar: The Apocryphal (?) Hymn to Pratyangira in the Paippalada Tradition - T.N. Dharmadhikari: Re-editing the Maitrayani Samhita: a Desideratum - Gerhard Ehlers: Old and New Manuscripts of the Jaiminiya-Brahmana - Shingo Einoo: Notes on the vrsotsarga - Arlo Griffiths: Paippalada Mantras in the Kausikasutra - Konrad Klaus: On the Sources of the Asvalayana-Srautasutra - François Voegeli: On the Kathaka Samhita Hapax pasuyajna and its Relationship with the saddhotr Mantra PART II: LANGUAGE AND STYLE - Dipak Bhattacharya: On yat, tat, uttarat and Similar Forms - Abhijit Ghosh: Problems in Determining Austric Lexical Elements in Sanskrit: a Case from the Atharva-Veda - Stephanie W. Jamison: Poetry and Purpose in the Rgveda: Structuring Enigmas - Jared S. Klein: Nominal and Adverbial AAmre.ditas and the Etymology of Rgvedic nana - Werner Knobl: The Nonce Formation: A more-than-momentary look at the Augenblicksbildung - Georges-Jean Pinault: On the Usages of the Particle iva in the Rgvedic Hymns - Ulrike Roesler: The Theory of Semantic Fields as a Tool for Vedic Research PART III: RITUAL AND RELIGION - Joel P. Brereton: Brahman, Brahman, and Sacrificer - Silvia D?Intino: Vision and Battle in Vedic Hymns: A Remark on the Theme of Battle in the Symbolism of Poetic Creation - Cezary Galewicz: Katavallur Anyonyam: a Competition in Vedic Chanting? - Jan E.M. Houben: Memetics of Vedic Ritual, Morphology of the Agnistoma - Mieko Kajihara: The Upanayana and Marriage in the Atharvaveda - David M. Knipe: Ritual Subversion: Reliable Enemies and Suspect Allies - Charles Malamoud: A Note on abistaka (Taittiriya Aranyaka I) - Sofía Moncó Taracena: Dawn and Song in the Vedic Hymns - Asko Parpola: From Archaeology to a Stratigraphy of Vedic Syncretism: The banyan tree and the water buffalo as Harappan-Dravidian symbols of royalty, inherited in succession by Yama, Varu.na and Indra, divine kings of the first three layers of Aryan speakers in South Asia - Stephanie W. Jamison: Response to Parpola, From Archaeology to a Stratigraphy of Vedic Syncretism - Frits Staal: From pranmukham to sarvatomukham: A Thread through the Srauta Maze - G.U. Thite: Vicissitudes of Vedic Ritual - Jarrod L. Whitaker: Ritual Power, Social Prestige, and Amulets (mani) in the Atharvaveda - Michael Witzel: The Rgvedic Religious System and its Central Asian and Hindukush Antecedents List of Contributors Index of Authors General Index