India and Southeast Asia: Cultural Discourses, Anna L. Dallapiccola and Anila Verghese (Eds.). Mumbai: The K R Cama Oriental Institute, 2017 In January 2015 a seminar entitled ‘Cultural Dialogues between India and Southeast Asia from the 7th to the 16th Centuries’ was held at the K R Cama Oriental Institute, Mumbai. The volume entitled India and Southeast Asia: Cultural Discourses is the outcome of that stimulating seminar in which many eminent ...
King Akbar and the Persian Translations of Sanskrit Books
Plato and Kautilya were both anxious to preserve a stable and unified state, but while Kautilya sought to achieve it by making the king extremely powerful and not scrupling to use any means, fair or foul, Plato visualises a band of superlatively wise and moral philosopher-kings, specially trained in statecraft. From these differences flow different conception of the lifestyles, qualities, duties and education of rulers. Both thinkers refer to their ...
Avesta Glossary: A Glossary of Avesta Words and Their Parsig Equivalents Based on the Zand
This glossary was originally compiled from the texts which belonged all to the "Semantic Study" of the Avesta. Only chapter two gives us some idea of the "Grammatical Study" of the Avesta language in the absence of the Parsig treatises on Grammar.The compilation date of the glossary may have been some time in the late period of the Sasanian Dynasty. However, its different sources are from various and older ages.