Śālabhañjikā in art, philosophy, and literature

Śālabhañjikā in art, philosophy, and literature by Udai Narain Roy Download PDF EPUB FB2

Philosophy Manhai pillar capital is the portion of an ancient capital found in the city of Manhai (also spelled Mainhai), one and half miles to the east of the eastern gateway of Kausambi, Uttar Pradesh in India, and published in in "Reh Inscription of Menander And The Indo-greek Invasion Of The Ganga Valley" by G.

Sharma. The fragmentary stone-slab is displayed in the Museum of the Centre of Place: Manhai, Kausambi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The master [of dramatic art], after he has fasted for three [days and] nights, is to raise the pillars in an auspicious moment at dawn.

[28] In the beginning, the ceremony in connexion with the Brahmin pillar should be performed with completely white, [29] articles purified with ghee and mustard seed; and in this ceremony Pāyasa should.

The Śālabhañjikā (शालभंजिका) is a recurring sculptural motif in Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist sacred spaces. The Shalabhanjika is a stylised sculpture that usually exaggerates feminine features, of a standing woman, holding a branch of a tree. The Sangam literature is the earliest that we have for South India, among other Kannada and Telugu literature.

Apart from religious texts, other texts on subjects like grammar, poetry, statecraft, philosophy etc. provide a preview of the then life and times. The purpose of. In this thesis, I discuss classical Sanskrit women poets and propose an alternative reading of two specific women’s works as a way to complicate current readings of Classical Sanskrit women’s poetry.

I begin by situating my work in current scholarship on Classical Sanskrit women poets which discusses women’s works collectively and sees women’s work as writing with alternative literary Author: Kathryn Marie Sloane Geddes.

out of the Bra1hman2a portion of the Veda grew two other departments of Vedic literature, sometimes included under the general name Veda, viz. the strings of aphoristic rules, called Su1tras [q.v.], and the mystical treatises on the nature of God and the relation of soul and matter, called Upanishad [q.v.], which were appended to the.

Humanités; Science des religions; Hindouisme; Le sanskrit, souffle et lumière - Voyage au cœur de la langue sacrée. (in philosophy) the quality of colour (one of the 17 or 24 guṇa-s of the vaiśeṣika-s) rūpadhārin: mfn.

bearing a form, assuming a shape (catur-guṇa-r-,"having a 4 times greater shape") rūpaka: mfn. having form, figurative, metaphorical, illustrating by figurative language: rūpaka. Dynastic Art and Cults in India and Central Asia: History of a Theory, Clarifications, Refutations”, East and West 33 (), – 25 Georg Bühler in Burgess, Report on the Buddhist Cave Temples, 59– 26 Aravamuthan, Portrait Sculpture, 17–18 and fig.

27 H. Sarkar, “The Nāgārjunakoṇ ḍa Phase of the Lower Kṛsṇ ̣ ā.