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The Foundations of Living Faiths: An Introduction to Comparative Relig – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
This book was originally delivered as the Stephanos Nirmalendu Ghosh lectures in 1933-34 and later published by the University of Calcutta. This work by Prof.
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Treatise in Thirty Verses on Mere-Consciousness: A Critical English Tr – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
The Wei-shih-san-shih-lun-sung (Vijinaptimatratarisasastrakarika, Treatise in Thirty Verses on Mere-Consciousness) is a Chinese version by Hsuan-tsang, the great Chinese scholar and traveller, of the Sanskrit text of the Trimsakarikas of Vasubandhu. The Trimsika sums up the essentials of the Yogacara-Vijnanavada school
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The Positive Science of the Ancient Hindus – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
The author's direct aim in the present work is to furnish the historians of the special sciences with new material which will serve to widen the scope of their survey. The Hindus no less than the Greeks have shared in the work of constructing scientific concepts and methods in the investigation of physical phenomena, a
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Yoga Philosophy of Patanjali with Bhasvati – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
People glibly speak of yoga without realising that it forms an integral part of a composite Samkhya Yoga philosophy, the oldest philosophical system in the world. Samkhya provides the theoretical base without one can neither fathom the terse aphorisms of Patanjali and their masterly interpretations by Vyasa nor deriv
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Studies in Philosophy: Volumes I & II Bound in one – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
These Studies in Philosophy represents all the published and only a few unpublished writings of Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya. These published writing date back 1908, but his characteristic philosophical position assumes definite shape in the writings during the year 1928-36. The publications of the period outnumber and
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Naad Brahma: Communion of Indian Classical Music with Kriya-Yog – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
The sound of music, that exists in a state of absolute silence is the 'Naad'. A sincere seeker can realise this fact through meditation, in confluence with Indian Classical Music. Indian Classical Music and Kriya Yog are complementary to each other. Confluence of these two primordial classical techniques will lead a pr
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The Dictionary of Hindustani Classical Music – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
In this book the author has dealt with the musical terms as found in the old sastras and are also in common use. He has explained these terms in simple language with reference to their history of origin. Description of seventy-eight different musical instruments and forty-seven different Talas are also there. An essent
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Studies in the Geography of Ancient and Medieval India – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
D. C. Sircar (1907-1984) was an epigraphist, historian, numismatist and folklorist, known particularly for his work deciphering inscriptions in India and Bangladesh. He was the Chief Epigraphist, Archaeological Survey of India (1949-1962); Carmichael Professor of Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcut
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The Six Ways of Knowing: A Critical study of the Advaita theory of kno – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
This book deals with the Vedanta standpoint, according to which there are six sources of knowledge. The conceptions of these different kinds of knowledge, with all the arguments given by the Vedantins to prove their independence and ultimacy, are critically discussed here in the light of modern Western concepts, and th
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Concept of Rudra-Siva Through the Ages – Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
The present book throws new light on the gradual development of the concept of Rudra-Siva in his animal, phallic and human forms, since the days of the Harappa Civilization. It examines how Siva, the composite Aryan-non-Aryan Divinity, was not only admitted but was ultimately crowned with an exalted position in the Bra
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