{"product_id":"orient-thought-and-culture-through-ages-nak254","title":"Orient Thought and Culture Through the Ages","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eNAK254\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/ar\/book-author\/manjula%20devi\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Manjula Devi\"\u003eManjula Devi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/ar\/book-publisher\/vidyanidhi%20prakashan%20delhi\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Vidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi\"\u003eVidyanidhi Prakashan, Delhi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2017\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e9789380651293\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e288\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e9.0 inch X 6.0 inch\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eWeight\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-weight\"\u003e510 gm\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The present Volume, entitled Orient Thought and Culture through the Ages, comprising twenty-eight research topics, deals with a wide range of subjects, centering round the ancient Indian thought and culture, which are mirrored in the vast corpus of the Vedic and the classical Sanskrit literature. Some of the papers are already published in the leading Journals, Felicitation Volumes and Anthologies, which have been compiled here to bring out in a book form, with some revisions done in a few papers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The focus of this work is on the thought and culture, rooted in the Vedas, the two Epics, the Puranas, and their reflections on vernacular versions of the Assamese literature. The diversified aspects, presented in this collection, cast a searching glance on the considerable details of the Vedic, the Epic and the Puranic records, pertaining to Indian religion and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The huge accounts of the traditions and knowledge, embedded especially in the Epics and the Puranas, are universal in appeal, which contain all-time lessons to humanity, and it has a great contribution to the moulding of Indian way of life and thought, through the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e It is ventured throughout the work, to afford significant insights on specific contexts, on the basis of the original sources and authoritative commentaries, and hopefully, the Volume would be received favourably by the academic fraternity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Professor Manjula Devi (b.1959) is presently heading the Department of Sanskrit, University, Assam. She stood first in Classs, with Honours in Sanskrit, in B.A. ition, 1978 from Cotton College, Gauwahati, securing highest aggregate She qualified for her Masters in (Veda group) in 1980 from Gauhatity, standing first in first class, and three gold medals for securing marks. In 1991, she obtained the Ph. D. degree from Gauhati University for her thesis entitled Visnu as Depicted in the Vedic , Puranic Literature, under the ! of Professor Apurba Chandrama, Barthakuria\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e She joined the Department of M.I.L., University, as a Lecturer in 1986, j to Reader in 1995, and served the Department as Head from 1997-99. In the le, she was appointed Reader in the Department of Sanskrit, Gauhati University, and subsequently became a Professor\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e She has authored a book, entitled Sahitya published by Publication Board, Assam in 2008, edited journals, and she has to her credit more than seventy published papers in English, Sanskrit and Aassamese. Eight scholars have obtained degree, and eighteen scholars have for M.Phil. degree in Assamese and under her guidance, from Faculty of Arts Gauhati University.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Professor Devi has participated in a of National and International conferences and seminars, held in India and She was awarded the 'Sushila Devi rize', for her best performance in the Vedic section of the 43'd session of the All India Oriental Conference, held in Jammu, in 2006. She was invited as Visiting Fellow in Department of Sanskrit, Tripura University ,in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003ePrefatorial\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The Vedas, the Epics and the Puranas are the fountain- head of materials, supplying themes for tracing out the cultural parameter of ancient Indians. They afford a glimpse of the knowledge of the ancients in religion and mythology, history and ethnology, law, ethics, philosophy, statecraft, science and technology, and so forth. The Vedas are regarded as the oldest literary monument, which provide copious information on the morals and manners of the Aryans, for delineating the social life of the people more comprehensively, and thereby they teach the lessons of life and preach the highest ideals of it. The Vedas have diffused and transmitted philosophy, literature and traditions to the society through the ages. The sacrifice, which was the Vedic form of worship, is the core theme of Vedic thought. The codes of conduct, enunciated and elucidated in the Vedas, have a direct bearing on the values of life of the people. The Vedic seers, purposely, aimed at the moral and spiritual uplift of the people, and thus, these ideals clearly exhibit the sterner side of the Vedic ethics. The Epics and the Puranas have touched every aspect of cultural life, as their authors had deep knowledge of the Indian milieu in all its aspects, and therefore, they have a perennial appeal to the humankind. The revelatory words and symbols, put in the moral lessons, are conducive to mould a good character in human beings, and they contain all-time lessons to humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e These concepts have influenced the later classical Sanskrit literature as well as the vernacular versions of the Indian literature, as they have a positive effect on the Indian mind, through the ages. The present Volume, entitled Orient Thought and Culture through the Ages, comprising twenty-eight research topics, deals with a wide range of subjects, centering round the ancient Indian thought and culture, which are mirrored in the vast corpus of the Vedic and the classical Sanskrit literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Some of the papers, which were presented in the Seminars and Conferences, held in India and abroad, on different Indological subjects, were subsequently published in the leading Journals, Felicitation Volumes and Anthologies. With some revisions, and with the addition of a few more papers, these have been compiled here to bring out in a book form, in order to give a cohesive picture on the cultural heritage of India.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The term culture means the customs, civilization and achievements of a particular time or people, or the way of life of a particular society or group (vide, Pears all, J. and Trumble, B.(ed.), Oxford English Reference Dictionary, First Indian Edition, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2008, under culture, p. 347). Thus, the cultural history of any society comprises all the aspects of their social, economic, educational, religious, artistic and other activities. A social tradition is sustained by the popular religious beliefs, customs, rituals, views of life, usages and attitudes, and so on. Though human culture is always revolutionary and progressive with the advancement of time, yet, it is derived that the orient wisdom has always played a vital role in the growth of cultural avenue in India. The Indian people have always prized the values, enshrined in the vast repositories of knowledge, which have been maintained through the ages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The Volume itemises the contents, with regard to its homogeneity of the subjects to the Vedic, the Epic and the Puranic literature. A few papers have been incorporated on some Epic-Puranic aspects of the Assamese literature, which venture to correlate the vast body of Sanskrit literature, with the concepts of vernacular Assamese literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e Amongst the modern Indian languages, Assamese has a long literary tradition, since the early centuries of the Christian era. Madhava Kandali, alias Kaviraja Kandali, is acclaimed to be the first poet, to have translated the Ramayana into Assamese, among the modern Indian languages. He composed the Ramaya1J.a, in metrical verses, under the patronage of Barahi King Mahamanikya, in the fourteenth century A.D. So far the Assamese literature is concerned, the poets, since the beginning of the fourteenth century, till the advent of the British rulers in nineteenth century, based on the two Epics and also on the Puranas, and composed their literature in form of translations, adaptations and compositions of dramas and Kavyas. The Assamese language can boast of having almost complete translations of both the Epics, as far back as the sixteenth century A.D. The stories, legends, wise sayings, religious sermons, ethics and philosophy, interspersed with the Epic and the Puranic accounts, have arrested the attention of all the regional poets of the modern Indian languages since long.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The varied contents of the Vedas, the Epics and the Puranas have been studied from different points of view, by the earlier authors. In such a work, the views of the earlier authors in the field have, necessarily, to be consulted. The help, derived from various works, have been duly acknowledged in the references. It is ventured throughout the work to afford significant insights on specific contexts, on the basis of the original sources and authoritative commentaries. The original texts are often quoted in the body of the work, which are produced by precise references for incisive scrutiny of the original sources. The author's aim at mirroring the broad spectrum of ancient Indian knowledge, will amply be rewarded, if it could register some added interest over and above the studies and researches, conducted so far on the themes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e The author owes a debt of gratitude to Sri Dinesh Chakravarty, Proprietor of Brahmaputra Offset, Guwahati-3, for his keen interest and cooperation, in completing the work. She also gratefully acknowledges the assiduous labour of Sri Munin Talukdar, a professional Assistant, Brahmaputra Offset, who has computer-typed the manuscript. Last, but not the least, Sri Badrinath Tiwari, Proprietor of Vidyanidhi Prakashan, New Delhi, deserves hearty thanks and sincere gratitude for bringing out the work with care and accuracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ccenter\u003e \u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e \u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003ctable width=\"100%\"\u003e \u003ctbody\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd width=\"05%\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd width=\"90%\"\u003e Prefatorial\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd width=\"05%\"\u003e 5\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 1\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e A Note on the Agrayanesti in the Vedas\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 11\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 2\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Daksina in the Vedic Sacrifices: A study\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 23\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 3\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Rules of vedapatha Enjoined in the pratisakhyas\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 31\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 4\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The Teacher-Pupil Relationship in the Vedic Era\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 41\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 5\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The Teachings of Karman: A vedic Study\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 51\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 6\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Ideals of Humanism Reflected in the Vedas\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 60\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 7\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Vedic attitude to sin as recorded in the atharvaveda\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 68\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 8\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The concept of Nirrti in the Vedic Literature\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 78\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 9\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Women's Participation in the Vedic Sacrifices\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 87\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 10\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Visnu in the upanisadic literature\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 95\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 11\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The sun as Viewd Scientifically by the Vedic seers\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 103\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 12\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Ornithological views perceived by the Vedic seers\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 113\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 13\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The concept of Vrata in the Dharmasastras\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 112\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 14\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Vedic practices in the society of the ramayana age\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 131\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 15\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The Vedic concept of satya enunciated in the mathabharata\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 142\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 16\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Sri Aurobindo's Approach to the concept of Incarnation as delicealted in the srimad=bhagavadgita\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 150\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 17\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e The Goddess Sasthi in the Epic and the Puranic Literature\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 159\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 18\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e the Incarnations of Visnu in the Puranas and their Vedic origin\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 168\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd\u003e 19\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e Epithets of 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