Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series
31 books
Dialogue with the World is a modest attempt at understanding the concept of the body in the works of two remarkable philosophers one from the West and the other from the East. Maurice Merleau Ponty and Sri Ramanuja representing two great philosophical traditions are philosophers who made unique contributions towards creative and convergent thinking focusing on the body as an Incarnate Consciousness. Merleau Ponty weaves his world of experience centred on the ...
The present volume focuses attention on the most popular of the Vedic hymns viz. Purusa Sukta. The idea of the Purusa has been explained in some detail and the enigmatic concept of Purusa Medha has also been considered in its proper perspective. It is hoped that by presenting this traditional interpretation many of the misconceptions will be removed. And as an Appendix has been given a detailed symbolic account of the Yajna prepared by an almost unknown scholar ...
In former times filled with affection towards her devotees the Goddess Parvati reverently questioned Shiva desirous of knowing the nature of Rama. The Lord of the Mountains himself recited to his dear consort that great mystery known as the Adhyatma Ramayana which is great amongst the Puranas. He who reads with devotion even a shloka or half a shloka of the Adhyatma Ramayana, is purified of all sins that very moment. He who daily recites reverently the Adhyatma ...
Reference from the Puranas on the religious and mythological significance of an ammonite (SĢaĢlagraĢma) stone emblem of Vishnu (Hindu diety).
"This book on Hanuman is an encyclopaedic work that is being presented to the scholarly world. It provides interesting and authentic information on Hanuman including the puja details. It is also fully illustrated.Like Ganesha, Hanuman is widely worshipped in the country, both in villages and in townships. He is also a tribal god and a folk deity, and around him cultic concepts have gathered. He is Rama's favourite attendant and also a Tantrik hero. He is ...
This book is about the state of embodied perfection often called enlightenment, self-realization, liberation, or jivanmukti. It examines the types, degrees, and stages of liberation that are possible, with and without a body. "In asking 'what is the nature of jivanmukti,' with all the ramifications that this entails (how does it occur, when does it occur, where does it occur, what part does karma play, and so on,) the authors not only provide the reader with ...
Ganesa's popularity is manifold. He is the favourite god of the masses. He is also the favourite subject for curio-hunters and collectors of icons. Painters and sculptors have reveled in depicting this god in a variety of forms and postures. The Tantrik practitioners have found in him a beneficient poer, quick to acquire and enduring in nature. Literature about Ganesh is rematkable, varied and large. Works in Sanskrit, which appear to have provides the main ...
The Agama literature includes the Silpa-Sastra, which is basic to iconography. Worship dealt with I the Agama necessarily involves images which are worship-worthy. The rituals and sequences that are elaborated in the Agama books find relevance only in the context of an icon which is contained in a shrine. And icons are meaningful only in the context of shrines and worship. Agama texts are not easily accessible to the people. A large number of them are still ...
Sri Cakra has rightly been regarded as the prince among cakras (cakra-raja). It is best known and most worshipped among hundres of sacred designs that are prescribed in the traditional lore. Despite this celebrity, an air of mystery surrounds this cakra. The present book gives details of the design, the significance of those details, the philosophical framework that renders the details relevant, the prevailing symbolism, and the nature of source - materials have ...
Cuiosity to know one's future is both natural and universal; and therefore any method which attempts to unravel the mystery of the future has an attraction for the future has an Astrology, palmistry, numerology and various extrasensory processes which claim to predict the future have a popular appareal. An elementary knowledge of astronomy and a historical perspective are indispensable for a beginner. After going through the authoritative texts like Brihat ...
The Kavyalankara of Vamana is the basic text of the school of Riti, in Indian Poetics. It is in this book that 'Style' received full treatment. As the title suggests the text is written in sutra style. It is one of the very important texts on Indian Poetics from the point of view of literary theory and Indian literary criticism. This text left remarkable impact on later writers on Sanskrit Poetics.
Nagesabhatta is a prolific writer and genius in grammar who flourished towards the end of the seventeenth century A.D. and the first half of the eighteenth century A.D. The Mahabhasyapradipoddyota is a supercommentary written by him on Kaiyata's gloss on the Mahabhasya of Patanjali. The present book dealing with the Mahabhasyapradipoddyota of Nagesa is divided into three paris. Part I General aims at introducing the author as well as his work and points out ...
Brahmakanda, is the first part of the Vakyapadiyam by Bhartrhari, Vakyapadiyam is the first major work that not only has proposed and successfully advocated the theme of Vyakarna to be a Darsana, but also recommended the same as a better and direct path leading to Moksa. The present book is altogether different from previous translations a new pattern of rendering is introduced in translating the work. Each verse is preceded by Introduction, that give the mind of ...
This book is about the power of the Word conceived as the main and most effective aspect of divine energy. It is the only systematic study in English of notions concerning the Word (Vac) as these are expounded in the Shaiva tantras of Kashmir and in related texts. Padoux first describes the Vedic origins of these notions, then their development in texts of different tantric traditions. He shows how different levels of the Word Abide in humans, how these levels ...
The Vaiyakaranabhusana of Kondabhatta (also spelt as Kaundabhatt) belongs to the category of the sabdabodha (verbal understanding) literature contributed by the grammarians. The text Vaiyakaranabhusana is divided into thirteen chapters dealing with thirteen components of a Sanskrit expression. The first chapter is called dhatvarthanirupana which deals with referent of a root. While deciding the meaning of a root Kondabhatta takes into account all the views ...
This book explores on e of the most explicit and sophisticated the-oretical formulations of tantric yoga. It explains Abhinvagupta's teaching about the nature of ultimate reality, about the methods for experiencing this ultimate reality, and about the nature of the state of realization, a condition of embodied enlightenment. The author uncovers the conceptual matrix surrounding the practices of the Kaula lineage of Kashmir Shivism.The primary textual basis ...
The Vaiyakarnabhusana of Kondabhatta (also spelt at Kaundabhatta) belongs to the category of the sabdabodha (verbal understanding) literature contributed by the grammarians. The text Vaiyakarnabhusana is divided into thirteen chapters dealing with thirteen components of a Sanskrit expression. The present book contains English translation of the second chapter of the book Lakarartha nirnaya (discussion on the meaning of a personal suffix).