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GLEANINGS FROM VEDIC TO PURANIC AGE

By :- Sadashiv Ambadas Dange

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Type: English

Pages: x+242

ISBN-13: 978-81-7305-237-9

Place: New Delhi

Edition: 1st

Publisher: ARYAN BOOKS INTERNATIONAL

Size: 15cm x 22cm

Product Year: 2002

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The book in its first part contains twenty-three papers of (Late) Dr. Sadashiv Ambadas Dange, Excepting three, the papers have already been published in reputed research journals. The book deals with varied topics such as several Vedic beliefs; Sanskrit poetician?s imagery gliding into the realm of semiotics; the ?riddle?- like incidents in the two great epics; Purana to be regarded as a ?shastra?; interesting motifs in mythology and folklore; Mimamas-rules applied in life and some significant problems in the ?spoken? aspect of the Sanskrit language. The book in its second part gives a short biographical sketch of (late) Dr. S.A. Dange and a bibliography of his writings, the latter, on the earnest insistence of researchers and scholars.

Preface Part - I Introduction 1. Axis Mundi and the Vedic Yupa 2. Visions of the Rgvedic Rsi-Kavis 3. Sanskrit Poetics and Semiotica 4. Dream (Svapna) in the Vedic Concept 5. Act and Retribution in the Rgveda and the Artharvaveda 6. Vastospati, Rudra and Cyavana 7. Rgveda and the Buffalo-Sacrifice? 8. Therianthropomorphism and the Multiple-Head Motifs in Ancient India and the Middle East 9. The Abduction of Sita 10. Birth and Marriage of the Pandavas-A Riddle? 11. The ?Bodies? of Pandu and Madri and the Funeral Rites 12. Stupa ? Vedic and Buddhistic 13. Purana and Sastra 14. The King with Two Faces 15. Women?s Share and the Mimamsa-Rule at ?Dvayoh Pranayanti? (An Examination) 16. Moral Value and the Purva-Mimamsa 17. ?Root-Germinants? in the Sanskrit Language (GHAS: AD) 18. Prakritization and the Germinant of the Roots of ?Vision? 19. Root-Germination and Reduplicated Roots in Sanskrit 20. Dampati and Patni 21. Kanya and Kanina 22. Vowel-Shortening and the Sanskrit-Sandhi 23. Some Peculiarities of the Eastern Dialect according to Panini Bibliography Abbreviations of Modern Titles Part ? II 1. A Short Biographical Sketch of Dr. Sadashiv Ambadas Dange 2. Bibliography of Dr. Dange?s Writings Index

(Late) Dr. Sadashiv Ambadas Dange, who had been R.G. Bhanderkar Professor and Head, Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai, is well known in India and outside India for his contribution to the study of Sanskrit and Indology. He has numerous books and more than 260 research papers to his credit. Considered to be an authority on Vedic-Hindu myths, rituals and practices, several honours were conferred on him. To mention a few Silver medal from the Asiatic Society of Bombay (1983), ?Special Honour? by the Uttara Pradesh Sanskrit Academy (1989), Felicitation by the State Government of Maharashtra (1990) and the Certificate of Honour from the President of India (1993). Dr. (Mrs.) Sindhu Sadashiv Dange, had been R.G. Bhandarkar Professor and Head, Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai. She has to her credit 12 books-7 authored by her, 1 co-authored with Dr. Sadashiv A. Dange and 4 edited by her. Well-known in India for her contribution to the field of Sanskrit, she was felicitated by the State Government of Maharashtra (1997) and by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi, through the Rashtriya Sanskrit Samsthan, in the Sanskrit year (2000).

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