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    The book vividly presents, analyses and critiques the varied facets of Indian aesthetics, especially the theory and technique of classical Indian dance, while doing a penetrating study of interrelationship that dancing has with literature, sculpture and music. In doing so, the book surveys and analyses the contribution of all great Sanskrit authors, theoreticians, playwrights of ancient and classical India along with the works many Bhāṣā scholars of arts, aesthetics and literature.

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    Classical Indian Dance in Literature and the Arts by: Kapila Vatsyayan 3,240.00

    This volume is the result of many years of painstaking research in a field, which had been neglected by art historians, and thus presenting an idealistic view of the whole tradition of Indian art and aesthetics. This definitive work on the inherent interrelationship of the Indian arts is a path-breaking endeavour, treading into a domain which no one had explored. For that to happen, the author has delved deep into enormous mass of literature on the subject and has also surveyed the portrayal of dance figures in ancient temples. With Dr Kapila Vatsyayan’s profound knowledge of various dance forms as a performing artist of her own standing and having studied the sculptures and artefacts minutely, the book emerges so scholarly emanating the wisdom and know-how of a persona, endowed with the unique combination of a researcher, an art historian and an aesthetician par excellence.
    The book vividly presents, analyses and critiques the varied facets of Indian aesthetics, especially the theory and technique of classical Indian dance, while doing a penetrating study of interrelationship that dancing has with literature, sculpture and music. In doing so, it surveys and analyses the contribution of great Sanskrit authors, theoreticians, playwrights of ancient and classical India such as Bharata, Bhāsa, Kālidāsa, Śūdraka, Bhavabhūti, Abhinavagupta, Jayadeva and many more along with numerous Bhāṣā scholars of arts, aesthetics and literature, covering each and every nook and corner of the Indian subcontinent.
    This highly scholarly work should invoke keen enthusiasm among Sanskritists, art historians, dancers and students of varied art forms alike, and should pave the way for ongoing researches on all the topics covered within its scope.

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    This book brings into focus the problems associated with conveying the central concepts and categories relating to some key areas of Indian classical thought through the well-established lexicons available in English, the language of ‘power’. It covers thus Epistemology, Ontology, Aesthetics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Religion and Logic, Political Theory, History, and Culture Theory from India and abroad.

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    Classical Indian Thought and the English Language by: Mohini Mullick, Madhuri Santanam Sondhi, 765.00

    This book is based on the proceedings of a Workshop held in 2011 on Rendering of the Categories of Classical Indian Thought in the English Language: Perspectives and Problems.
    Although scientific texts appear to have successfully solved the problem by standardizing technical terms for all languages of instruction and communication, the problem of translation becomes acute when dealing with vocabularies of long standing belonging to ancient cultures, as is the case in India.
    More urgently, we know that the thought worlds of ancient and medieval India are still very much alive and with us. Thus to even begin to understand contemporary India and its dilemmas, it is essential to come to grips with the foundational concerns, wisdom and follies of a civilization that has refused to die. What we find, however, is that when it comes to the understanding of our own thought traditions, their rendering into the English language in the colonial (and post-colonial) period, has only served to obscure the great cultural divide between the history of Western thought and our own.
    The workshop thus aimed at bringing into focus the problems associated with conveying the central concepts and categories relating to some key areas of Indian classical thought through the well-established lexicons available in English, the language of ‘power’.
    The multidisciplinary gathering included not only philosophers from the fields of Epistemology, Ontology, Aesthetics, Moral Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Religion and Logic, but also specialists in the fields of Political Theory, History, and Culture Theory from India and abroad.

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    This work highlights the Dharmashastra essentials by listing the major authors with their biographies, titles and their dates of composition, published editions and commentaries. It shows how Dharmashastra works have influenced the Indian way of life.

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    Companion to Dharmasastra by: Sures Chandra Banerji 315.00

    Dharmashastra is not just a corpus of scriptural texts. It is rather a genre, in its own right, of writings comprising prescriptive codes of righteous conduct in different spheres: whether familial, societal, ritualistic, legal, or even political. For the first time, this book offers a quintessential view of the Dharmashastra (Smriti) literature. Which today, along with its digests and commentaries, looks like a vast reservoir of literary works that have been accumulating over the centuries since their legendary beginnings with Manu. Designed primarily for reference, this Companion is styled and structured to bring forth the Dharmashastra-essentials in the quickest time. Listed here, alphabetically, are the major authors with their biographical sketches. And, these besides, the titles, together with descriptive details of their thematic content, dates/probable dates of their composition, published editions and commentaries their upon. Also included here are as many as 12 appendices which, in their totality, embody Dharmashastra-based information on geography, flora and fauna, mixed castes/tribes, neo-Smriti schools, and the kind of relation Smriti literature has with the Mahabharata, Puranas, and Tantra, among other aspects. Professor Banerji’s book not only tries to show how Dharmashastra works are representative of the ancient/medieval political, social and cultural milieus, but is also a painstaking attempt to gauge their influence in conditioning the Indian way of life and psyche. Supported by an extensive glossarial index of Smriti literature, it is indisputably a valued companion to the Dharmashastra-specialists, Indologists and the scholars of ancient/medieval Indian sociology.

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    This book delves deep into the growth of poetics, theory of literature, literary artefacts, aesthetics of literature as an art form, and dramaturgy and philosophy of literature. Cultures have given forms as their typical expressions — for India great epics, for Greece tragedies, and for England lyrics.

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    Comparative Literary Theory by: Kapil Kapoor 405.00720.00

    “Two cultures of the world — Greek and Indian — have nourished literature. While the contemporary Western thinking is rooted in Greek thought, especially of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, and percolated down to the modern European languages with the advent of Christian thought, the multilingual Indian literary tradition has its base from the classical Tamil, Pali, Prakrt and Sanskrit.
    Though cultural specificity marks these two traditions off from each other, the universal human condition that finds expression in all literatures binds them together. This book delves deep into the growth of poetics, theory of literature, literary artefacts, aesthetics of literature as an art form, and dramaturgy and philosophy of literature.
    Cultures have given forms as their typical expressions — for India great epics, for Greece tragedies, and for England lyrics. Similarly, different ages of a culture find expression in different forms — Elizabethan age of England in lyrics, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries in drama, eighteenth century in prose, and nineteenth century in novel. India’s genius is in epics and its expression unfolds in sravya-preksa compositions, being singable poetry as its preferred form.
    This book must serve pretty useful for students and teachers of literature. Also, an invaluable collection for researchers in literature.”

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    This volume deals with different issues related to religious practices and institutions in South Asia. It further seeks to substantiate the well-known opposition between the so-called orthodox sovereignty and the heterodox one, of which the so-called vratya-power seems to be a prime example.

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    Cross Cutting South Asian Studies by: Serena Bindi, Elena Mucciarelli, Tiziana Pontillo, 1,440.00

    This volume, Cross-cutting South Asian Studies: An Interdisciplinary Approach focuses on two themes that are central to Indological studies: religious practices and heterodox sovereignty.
    The first part of this volume “The Indian Ocean of Religious Practices: Past and Present” deals with different issues related to religious practices and institutions in South Asia. These contributions share a similar theoretical perspective on religion: they all highlight, in various ways and through different disciplinary approaches, how, in order to fully understand religious practices and their inherent dynamics, it is essential to consider the power relations that continually imbue and shape them.
    The second part “Kings, Priests and Prominent Roles Interpreted through the Visual, Literary, Speculative, and Technical Indian Arts” seeks to substantiate the well-known opposition between the so-called orthodox sovereignty and the heterodox one, of which the so-called vratya-power seems to be a prime example. Therefore, the target of the relevant contributions consists in focusing on different contexts where the king or chieftain, or merely the patron of the sacrifice, gains his temporary pre-eminence in an agonistic way which includes an important non-permanent ascetic dimension.

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    Darsanamala written in Sanskrit is one of the major works of Narayana Guru. Consisting of 100 verses divided into 10 chapters of 10 verses each, each chapter gives a different vision, complete in itself. The author here adopts the system of looking at non-dual, Ultimate Reality or Brahman from ten different points and a real seeker can intuitively perceive the non-dual Brahman within himself, he being inalienable from it.

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    Darshan Mala by: Shri Narayanaguru Vircita 72.00

    Darsanamala written in Sanskrit is one of the major works of Narayana Guru. Consisting of 100 verses divided into 10 chapters of 10 verses each, each chapter gives a different vision, complete in itself. The author here adopts the system of looking at non-dual, Ultimate Reality or Brahman from ten different points and a real seeker can intuitively perceive the non-dual Brahman within himself, he being inalienable from it.

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    Studying European theories of the sublime particularly against contemporary critical uses of the term, the study maintains that the Brahman is one of the most fully developed sublimes. It analyses the relationship of a devotee, with his ‘God’ when the latter is incapable of representation.

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    Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime by: Vijay Mishra 315.00

    The last two decades of the twentieth century have been marked by an immense revival of interest in the sublime, yet past studies have used Western texts as their archives. This book dramatically shifts the focus by examining a major instance of an Indian sublime: the Brahman. Mishra examines European theories of the sublime, reads them off against contemporary critical uses of the term (notably by Lyotard and Paul de Man) and proposes that the Hindu Brahman constitutes an instance of one of the most fully developed of all comprehensive theory of both the Indian sublime and Indian devotional verse. “The book offers a highly original interpretation of one fundamental problem in Indian cultural history: how does a devotee establish a relationship with God (Brahman) when God is ultimately incapable of representation? Mishra brilliantly exposes this problem by introducing the theme of the sublime and shows how the problem has been confronted across a range of central Hindu texts covering a large panorama of historical time and several Indic languages.”

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    The book is an in-depth study of dhavni, the well established Indian critical system and the Western structural poetics. It also examines the independent universalisation and necessity to explicate words, letters and syllables for the sake of meaning formation.

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    Dhvani and Structuralist Poetics by: Bhavatosh Indraguru, Vikalp Parashar, 540.00

    Dhvani and structuralist poetics emerge as the two primary theoretical frameworks in which the reality of inquisition and propagation of comprehensibility and creativity of the artistry could be well-conceived, exposed and implied. In each of the two systems, the maturity of conception and universality of expression of the content, context and the medium are quite remarkable.
    The book is an in-depth study of dhvani, that is, the Indian critical system developed around the eighth century ce, and structuralist poetics — the Western critical premise, commencing with Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics — that substantiate an adequate methodology to understand the formation of categories, contents, constructs and mediums as a necessary corollary to an analytical procedure that would bring about transformation. It examines the independent universalisation of sabda, pada, varna, vakya, bhava, vibhava, anubhava, sthayibhava, sancaribhava, alambana and uddipana for the sake of an absolute artistic formation, especially as propounded by Anadavardhana, the progenitor of dhvani system. It then delves deep into the structuralist poetics, following Saussure, Barthes, Jakobson and others, that focuses on the need and necessity to explicate words, letters, syllables and even otherwise an experience so as to create a valid notation, out of each of these, for the sake of totality in the meaning formation.
    The study has immense significance owing to the fact that it promotes proper understanding and enjoyment of literature. Moreover, the fact is that Indian and the Western scholarships have not paid much attention to the subject discussed herein. The volume, therefore, will be of an immense interest to scholars and students of poetics and literature in general.

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    This newly-edited edition of D?ks??prak??a brought out jointly by DK Printworld and The Tantra Foundation, New Delhi is an authentic compilation based on some of the authoritative Tantras such as the ??rad?tilaka and the Tantras?ra of ?gamav?gi??a. The short and succinct work covers a wide range of ta?ntric topics such as rites associated with ta?ntric form of initiations, the qualities of guru and the disciple, activation of ta?ntric mantras by means of the esoteric rituals and worship of deities.

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    Dikshaprakashah by: Shitala Prasad Upadhayay 450.00

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    Dr. Yadav here captures the rich meaning of the Bhagavad Gita and presents it in a condensed form with a rare clarity. In a simple and fluent language, he brings out the glory of Lord Krishna and discusses the essence of the yoga of knowledge, karma yoga, the yoga of devotion and the yoga of meditation.

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    Divine Dialogue by: Surendra Singh Yadav 144.00

    Recognising the significance of the Bhagavad Gita in the present times as a guide to understanding the life and attaining spiritual fulfilment, Dr. Surendra Singh Yadav conveys here its enduring message in the form of beautiful verses in English. In a simple and fluent language, the verses capture the rich meaning of the Gita and present it in a condensed form with a rare clarity. Much like his rare book in Hindi, titled, ‘Krishna–Arjuna Samvad’, this work in English, brings out the glory of the Lord Krishna and gives out the essential substance of the yoga of knowledge, the karma yoga, the yoga of devotion and the yoga of meditation. The book will make essential reading for all as the Gita is concerned with the human quest in the battle field of life and provides the guidelines for a victory therein.

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