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Indian Knowledge Sys...
Indian Knowledge Systems (2 Vols. Set)
by: Kapil Kapoor , Avadhesh Kumar SinghIndia has continuous and cumulative intellectual traditions and thisbook endeavours to expound the major Indian Knowledge Systems, under its seven sections and makes available authoritative statements that articulate their validity for the contemporary Indian and Western reality in the modern perspective.
₹3,150.00
ISBN: 9788124603369
Year Of Publication: 2005
Edition: 1st
Pages : xi, ix, 710
Bibliographic Details : Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 25 cm.
Weight: 2050
India has continuous and cumulative intellectual traditions in many domains of knowledge. This tradition has its beginning in the Rigveda, the first attested Indo-European document, and continues to be alive in the life, practices and learning of the Indian people. The power and pertinence of knowledge systems in this tradition are attested by the existence of innumerable texts and thinkers that continue to be the subject of study in major contemporary universities round the world. Not many today are aware of this rich heritage of thought. The Academy therefore produces rootless young minds that at best are ignorant and at worst have contempt for their own traditions of thought. The two volumes, comprising 34 articles by distinguished scholars, expound some major Indian knowledge systems viz. Logic, Philosophy of Language, Technology and Crafts, Polity and Governance, Ethics and Sociological texts, Architecture, Poetics and Aesthetics, Law and Justice, Mathematics and Astronomy, Agriculture, Trade and Commerce and Medicine and Life Science. Under its seven sections (i) Indian Knowledge Systems (Ex)Positions; (ii) Science; (iii) Medical Science in India; (iv) Psychology, Polity and Sociological Texts; (v) Aesthetics and Poetics; (vi) Philosophy, Logic and Language; and (vii) Knowledge Formation, Dissemination and Practice it makes available the first statements that articulate their validity for the contemporary Indian and Western reality.
VOLUME — 1
Acknowledgement
— Kapil Kapoor; Avadhesh Kumar Singh
Key to Transliteration
Prefatory Note
— Kapil Kapoor; Avadhesh Kumar Singh
I
Indian Knowledge Systems: (Ex)Positions
1. Indian Knowledge Systems: Nature, Philosophy, Character
— Kapil Kapoor
2. Amara-Bharati: Sanskrit and the Resurgence of Indian Civilization
— M.D. Srinivas
II
Indian Knowledge Systems and Science
3. Educating Sciences of Life and Mind
— Ananda Wood
4. Indias Scientific Mind: A Quest for Infinity
— Michel Danino
5. Dividing the Thousand into Three
— Wagish Shukla
6. Some Special Features in Procedures of Ganesha Daivajnas Grahalaghavam: A Study of its Special Features
— S. Balachandra Rao
7. Philosophy and Science in Indian Texts
— Ravi Khanna
III
Medical Science in India
8. Modern Medicine and Ancient Indian Wisdom
— B.M. Hegde
9. Ayurveda as a Knowledge System
— P. Ram Manohar
10. Social Organization of Knowledge in India: Folk and Classical Traditions
— A.V. Balasubramanian
IV
Psychology, Polity and Sociological Texts
11. Psychology: Five Major Indian Contributions
— Matthijs Cornelissen
12. Indian Political Thought
— Ashok S. Chausalkar
13. Governance According to Manu-Smriti
— Bharat Jhunjhunwala
14. Agriculture and Trade in India
— P. Shashi Rekha
15. Treatment of Women in Indian Sociological Texts: With Reference to Manu-Smriti
— Chandrakala Padia
16. The Indian Noetic Tradition: The Dharmashastras — Bharatiya Jnana-Parampara
— Santosh Kumar Shukla
17. Vision of Disaster Management in Kautilyas Arthashastra
— Niranjan Patel
18. Indian Psyche — A Note
— V. Prakasam
VOLUME — 2
Key to Transliteration
V
Aesthetics and Poetics
19. Alam Brahma
— Rewaprasad Dwevedi
20. Salvation by Knowledge: Ananda Coomaraswamy and the Tradition of Indian Aesthetics
— Chandrashekhar Jahagirdar
21. Krishna Dvaipayanas Veda of Life
— Kavita A. Sharma
22. Reading the First Adhyaya of the Natyashastra
— Makarand Paranjape
23. Neither Amnesia nor Aphasia: Knowledge, Continuity and Change in Indian Poetics
— Avadhesh Kumar Singh
VI
Philosophy, Logic and Language
24. Buddhist Traditions and Knowledge
— Geshe N. Samten
25. Indian Ontology: From Veda to Vedanta
— Shashiprabha Kumar
26. One Universe — Multiple Systems : Two Major Sources
— Renu Malhotra
27. Principles of Determining the Meaning of Words and Sentences: The Mimamsakas Perspectives
— Daya Shankar Mishra
28. Ontology of Speech Sounds
— Rajnish Kumar Mishra
29. Toward a Theory of Syntax
— Bhavatosh IndraGuru
30. Vakyapadiya: Basic Linguistic Concepts
— R.V. Dhongde
VII
Knowledge Formation, Dissemination and Practice
31. Syncretism in Indian Knowledge Systems: A Case Study of Durga Puja
— Debasish Chakrabarty
32. Narrative as Epistemology in the Brahamana Texts
— Atanu Bhattacharya
33. Folk Wisdom and Environmental Crisis: A Contemporary Case Study from the Western Himalayas
— Raghubir Singh Pirta
34. Saraswati Hieroglyphs and Bharatiya Cultural Continuum: Mlecchita Vikalpa and Bharatiya Sabhyata
— S. Kalyanraman
List of Contributors
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Most of our Sanskrit works, covering a wide gamut of knowledge systems, are structured in the techniques of debate. This reality applies not only to the philosophical writings, but to Indian medical systems (Ayurveda), Arthashastra of Kautilya and Kamasutra of Vatsyayana as well. Even great epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata are no exceptions.
Vada culture involved verbal duals, attacks and even violence of speech, and all major religious systems — old or modern — were parties to it. This book also elucidates how vata was vital and critical for the growth of our socio-political fabrics. It shows how some of the major conflicts in philosophical systems were centred around karma, jnana, choice between violence and non-violence, pravritti and nivritti. It also presents the manifestations of vada on a vast canvas during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Modern spiritual and religious gurus like Ramana Maharshi, J. Krishnamurti and Vinoba Bhave were men of dialogues. Our scholars have applied the varied techniques of vada against the philosophical and scientific systems of the West to prove them correct.
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This volume is comprised of the proceedings of an international conference on IndiaKorea Relations: Past and Present, dealing with India’s relationship with Korea since ce 48. While Buddhism was the amblical cord of Indian relationship with Korea in the first millennium, the end of Cold War has helped to scale up their relations to a new league. Complimenting their bilateral relationship are the Look East Policy of India and the New Asia Initiative of Korea.
These economic giants of Asia have many things in common to share, give and take in the post-colonial era. The rag to richess story of the miracle on the Han River gives impetus to India’s surge in the economic front. From a hermit-kingdom image, Korea now stands tall among the Asian countries with its rapid socio-economic progress and a per capita income of US $ 22,000. Its advancements in education, science and technology, and defence deserve kudos.
The book thus delves deep into all aspects of bilateral relationship commercial, cultural, economic, educational, historic, language and literature, political, science and technology, and trade. Both the countries have experienced drastic economic progress, increase in trade volumes, Korean corporates investing in India vis- -vis Indian companies in Korea. A target-trading volume of US $ 40 billion by the year 2015 tells a vibrant story. Also, both are committed in making Asia the most happening region.
The book provides a graphic account of all these developments, shedding light on India’s low per capita income of US $ 1,219 and suggesting to put her acts together, to lead Asia from the front. -
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This anthology, consisting of fourteen essays, deals with a variety of themes that are of central importance for an authentic appreciation of the philosophical core of the Indian culture. The readers will find here illuminating discussions on various issues that bear witness to the critical thinking and deep reflection on the part of the author that have enabled her to carefully expose the subtle internal divergences that nourish the Indian conceptual world.
Based on arduous and painstaking research, these essays focus on a range of topics. There are several essays on multiple aspects of the large themes of time and consciousness, penetrating analysis showing how in the ancient discourse ideas of klesha (affliction), abhyasa (practice) and karuna (compassion) as well as on women and values are dealt with. There are also deliberations on the themes of religious diversity and the need for an encounter of world religions along with the attempt to explore India’s self-image. All these have contemporary relevance, as these essays clearly bring out the distinctive character of a living culture. -
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