Say to the Sun, Don't Rise, and to the Moon, Don't Set

Ramdas Atkar, Rajaram Zagade

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• Pastoralist traditions have long been extraordinarily important to the social, economic, political, and cultural life of western India. The Marathi-la... Lees meer

To Savor the Meaning

James D Reich

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• Medieval Kashmir in its golden age saw the development of some of the most sophisticated theories of language, literature, and emotion articulated in ... Lees meer

A Lasting Vision

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature ( Kavyadarsa ), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (c. 700 CE)... Lees meer

Dharma

Alf Hiltebeitel

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors soug... Lees meer

Donors, Devotees, & Daughters of God

Leslie C Orr, Leslie Orrey

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• Through the use of epigraphical evidence, Leslie C. Orr brings into focus the activities and identities of the temple women (devadasis) of medieval So... Lees meer

A Priest's Guide for the Great Festival Aghorasiva's Mahotsavavidhi

Richard H Davis

• Hardcover | Engels, Sanskriet | South Asia Research
• The Mahotsavavidhi , a twelfth-century Sanskrit text, provides detailed guidelines for a Saiva temple priest in performing a nine-day "great festival"... Lees meer

Poetry of Kings

Allison Busch

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This in-depth study of the classical Hindi tradition brings the world of Mughal-era poetry and court culture alive for an English readership. Allison ... Lees meer

The Rigveda

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed... Lees meer

City of Mirrors

• Hardcover | Bengaals, Engels | South Asia Research
• Carol Salomon dedicated over thirty years of her life to researching, translating, and annotating this compilation of songs by the Bengali poet and my... Lees meer

Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath

Aditya Malik

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This book offers a detailed study of the oral narrative of Shri Devnarayan along with the first English translation of this popular Rajasthani folk na... Lees meer

South Asia Research

Axel Michaels

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• The town of Deopatan, three kilometers northeast of Kathmandu, is above all famous for its main sanctum, the temple of Paśupati, the "lord of the anim... Lees meer

Between the Empires

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collec... Lees meer

The Early Upanishads

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (O... Lees meer

Jimutavahana's Dayabhaga

Jimutavahana

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This is a translation of a 12th-century Sanskrit legal text, with the original text. The Dayabhaga was one of the most important texts in the history ... Lees meer

Indian Epigraphy

Richard Salomon

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, d... Lees meer

Manu's Code of Law

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• Manu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civil... Lees meer

Managing Monks

Jonathan A Silk

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study -- to engage in religious pract... Lees meer

In the Shade of the Golden Palace

Thibaut D'Hubert

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol ( fl. 1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one ver... Lees meer

The Rigveda

• Paperback | Engels | South Asia Research
• The Rigveda is the oldest Sanskrit text, consisting of over one thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities of the Vedic tradition. Orally composed... Lees meer

Innovations and Turning Points

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• This volume is the first attempt to offer a panoramic historical overview of South Asian classical poetry, especially in Sanskrit. Many of the essays ... Lees meer