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“danuta stasik”

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  • Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India

    Current Research

    Edited by Imre Bangha, Danuta Stasik ...
    Literary Cultures in Early Modern North India: Current Research grows out of over a 40-year tradition of the triennial International Conferences on Early Modern Literatures in North India (ICEMLNI), initiated to share 'Bhakti in current research.' This volume brings together a selection of contributions from some of the leading scholars as well as emerging researchers in the field originally ... Read more

    $152.99 USD

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  • The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali

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  • Tamil

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  • Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives

    Moral Vision and Literary Innovation

    by Gregory M. Clines ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies
    Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rāma and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature.The book argues that the plot, characters, and the very history of Jain Rāma composition itself served as a continual font of inspiration for authors ... Read more

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  • On Hinduism

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  • Translation as Discovery and Other essays on Indian Literature in English Translation

    by Sujit Mukherjee ...
    The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any developed literary culture, and argues that translation into English has made it possible for an ... Read more

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  • The Guru Granth Sahib

    Canon, Meaning and Authority

    by Pashaura Singh ...
    This book examines three closely related questions in the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition: how the text of the Adi Granth came into being, the meaning of gurbani, and how the Adi Granth became the Guru Granth Sahib. The censure of scholarly research on the Adi Granth was closely related to the complex political situation of Punjab and brought the whole issue of academic freedom ... Read more

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  • Studies in Jaina History and Culture

    Disputes and Dialogues

    Edited by Peter Flügel ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies
    The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies.Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged ... Read more

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  • The Language of History

    Sanskrit Narratives of Indo-Muslim Rule

    by Audrey Truschke ...
    For over five hundred years, Muslim dynasties ruled parts of northern and central India, starting with the Ghurids in the 1190s through the fracturing of the Mughal Empire in the early eighteenth century. Scholars have long drawn upon works written in Persian and Arabic about this epoch, yet they have neglected the many histories that India’s learned elite wrote about Indo-Muslim rule in Sanskrit. ... Read more

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    The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

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  • Unifying Hinduism

    Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History

    by Andrew Nicholson ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots in innovations within South Asian philosophy from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. During this ... Read more

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