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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Religions of Indic & Oriental origin > Hinduism
The Nyayasutravivarana, written in the first centuries of the 2nd
millennium CE, provides the most accessible introduction to the
core teachings of old Nyaya. Excerpting from the two earliest and
most important treatises of this tradition-the Nyayabhasya and
Nyayavarttika-Gambhiravamsaja created a comprehensive yet concise
digest. The present work contains not only a critical edition of
the first chapter based on all known textual sources but also a
complete documentation of the variants, a comprehensive study of
the parallel passages, a detailed discussion of the preparation and
processing of the text-critical data, and a detailed documentation
of the Grantha Tamil, Telugu and Kannada scripts.
The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and
popular scriptures of Hinduism. A medieval Sanskrit text, its
influence as a religious book has been comparable only to that of
the great Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. Ithamar
Theodor here offers the first analysis for twenty years of the
Bhagavata Purana (often called the Fifth Veda ) and its different
layers of meaning. He addresses its lyrical meditations on the
activities of Krishna (avatar of Lord Vishnu), the central place it
affords to the doctrine of bhakti (religious devotion) and its
treatment of older Vedic traditions of knowledge. At the same time
he places this subtle, poetical book within the context of the
wider Hindu scriptures and the other Puranas, including the similar
but less grand and significant Vishnu Purana. The author argues
that the Bhagavata Purana is a unique work which represents the
meeting place of two great orthodox Hindu traditions, the
Vedic-Upanishadic and the Aesthetic. As such, it is one of India s
greatest theological treatises. This book illuminates its character
and continuing significance."
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more
at www.luminosoa.org. The Practice of Texts examines the uses of
the Sanskrit medical classics in two educational institutions of
India's classical life science, Ayurveda: the college and the
gurukula. In this interdisciplinary study, Anthony Cerulli probes
late- and postcolonial reforms in ayurvedic education, the
development of the ayurvedic college, and the impacts of the
college curriculum on ways that ayurvedic physicians understand and
use the Sanskrit classics in their professional work today. His
fieldwork in south India illuminates the nature of philology and
ritual in the ayurvedic gurukula and showcases how knowledge is
exchanged among students, teachers, and patients. The result,
Cerulli shows, is that the Sanskrit classics are presented and
applied differently in the college and gurukula, producing a
variety of relationships with these texts among practitioners. By
interrogating the politics surrounding the place of the Sanskrit
classics in ayurvedic curricula, this book reveals a spectrum of
views about the history and tradition of Ayurveda in modern India.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
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