IAVRI Bulletin
Author: International Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 618
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Author: International Association of the Vrindaban Research Institute
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 618
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Publisher: Association of Research Libr
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1136102345
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
Author: Winnand Callewaert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1136120025
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnantadas is the first 'biographer' who, around 1600, wrote about the most popular bhakti poets of the 15th and 16th centuries in Northern India. This critical study of these manuscripts yields a broad spectrum of the linguistic and morphological variants. It also reveals the processes of oral and scribal transmission during this time when sectarian interests appropriated certain poets and changed their 'biographies' accordingly.
Author: R. S. Khare
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1992-08-25
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780791410585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary study of the cultural meaning and uses of food in India and Sri Lanka, drawing on the abundant commentary by saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine, in both religious and literary contexts. The eight papers, some from a January 1985 conference, Food Systems and Communications Structures, in Mysore, India, focus on the long-term, wide spread significance of food, rather than on caste differences, changing diets, or a comparison between Hindu and Buddhist approaches. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Winand M. Callewaert
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9783447035248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Nāmadeva
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 446
ISBN-13: 9789068311075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rosalind O'Hanlon
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-02
Total Pages: 293
ISBN-13: 1317982878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReligious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage, while new sectarian centres of doctrinal and spiritual authority emerged beyond the confines of the state. Royal and merchant patronage stimulated the growth of new classes of mobile intellectuals deeply committed to the reappraisal of many aspects of religious law and doctrine. Supra-regional institutions and networks of many other kinds - sect-based religious maths, pilgrimage centres and their guardians, sants and sufi orders - flourished, offering greater mobility to wider communities of the pious. This was also a period of growing vigour in the development of vernacular religious literatures of different kinds, and often of new genres blending elements of older devotional, juridical and historical literatures. Oral and manuscript literatures too gained more rapid circulation, although the meaning and canonical status of texts frequently changed as they circulated more widely and reached larger lay audiences. Through explorations of these developments, the essays in this collection make a distinctive contribution to a critical formative period in the making of India’s modern religious cultures. This book was published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture.
Author: Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1136790012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcerned with the process in Hinduism of reinterpreting classical texts and imbuing them with new inspiration. An example par excellence is Hariram Vyas's Ras-pancadhyayi, the earliest known Braj Bhasa version of the five chapters of Bhagavatapurana on Krsna's Dance with the Gopis.
Author: Barbara A. Holdrege
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-08-14
Total Pages: 553
ISBN-13: 1317669096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferate, celebrating the notion that a deity, while remaining translocal, can appear in manifold corporeal forms in different times and different localities on different planes of existence. Holdrege suggests that an exploration of the connections between bhakti and embodiment is critical not only to illuminating the distinctive transformations that characterize the emergence of bhakti traditions but also to understanding the myriad forms that bhakti has historically assumed up to the present time. This study is concerned more specifically with the multileveled models of embodiment and systems of bodily practices through which divine bodies and devotional bodies are fashioned in Krsna bhakti traditions and focuses in particular on two case studies: the Bhagavata Purana, the consummate textual monument to Vaisnava bhakti, which expresses a distinctive form of passionate and ecstatic bhakti that is distinguished by its embodied nature; and the Gaudiya Vaisnava tradition, an important bhakti tradition inspired by the Bengali leader Caitanya in the sixteenth century, which articulates a robust discourse of embodiment pertaining to the divine bodies of Krsna and the devotional bodies of Krsna bhaktas that is grounded in the canonical authority of the Bhagavata Purana.