Search: 2011, Hardback

ISBN13:

9789004193802

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When the Goddess was a Woman

Edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee

Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and the south Indian cults of Draupadī and Kūttāṇṭavar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the ...

€185.00$240.00

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NUS

Volume:

131

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ISBN13:

9789004185661

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Reading the Fifth Veda

Edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee

€99.00$136.00

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BIL

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ISBN13:

9789004212091

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Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition

Edited by Alka Patel and Karen Leonard

The authors in this volume analyze the rich layers of circulation and exchange of art, architecture, and literature within South Asia from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, focusing on the interaction of Muslims and Islamic traditions with other people and traditions there.

€143.00$196.00

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BIL

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ISBN13:

9789004212145

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Yoga Powers

Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen

The book offers a number of new insights in the history of yoga powers in the South Asian religious traditions, analyzes the position of the powers in the salvific process and in conceptions of divinity, and explores the rational explanations of the powers provided by the traditions.

€91.00$118.00

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BIL

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Available: Print on Demand

ISBN13:

9789004204355

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Language and Reality

by Johannes Bronkhorst. Translated from the French by Michael S. Allen and Rajam Raghunathan. Revised and with a new appendix

This book explores the conviction shared by almost all Indian philosophers regarding the close connection between language and reality. It shows that the main currents of Indian philosophy can be understood as answers to a problem that this conviction entailed.

€102.00$132.00

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HO2

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ISBN13:

9789004207356

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Portraiture in Early India

Vincent Lefèvre

This book highlights the specificities of Indian portraiture in sculpted and painted images, its relationship with divine images and aims, with the help of textual and epigraphical references, to understand the development of Indian imagery. It questions also the social and religious ...

€123.00$159.00

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HO2

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ISBN13:

9789004201408

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Buddhism in the Shadow of Brahmanism

Johannes Bronkhorst

This book deals with the confrontation of Buddhism and Brahmanism in India. Both depended on support from the royal court, but Buddhism had less to offer in return than Brahmanism. Buddhism developed in a manner to make up for this.

€256.00$332.00

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HO2

Volume:

22/3

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Encyclopedic Work

ISBN13:

9789004178946

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Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Three

Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors)