Hinduism

This study focuses on the devices implemented in Classical Indian texts on ritual and language in order to develop a structure of rules in an econo...

While Indian visual culture and Tantric images have drawn wide attention, the culture of images, particularly that of the divine images, is broadly...

This full-scaled monograph, rich in factographic material, concerns Nārāyaṇa Guru (1855/56--1928), a founder of a powerful socio-religious movement...

The Upaniṣads are among the most sacred foundational scriptures in the Hindu religion. Composed from 800 BCE onwards and making up part of the larg...

This is the first book to address the social organisation of modern yoga practice as a primary focus of investigation and to undertake a comparativ...

A richly illustrated tapestry of interwoven studies spanning some six thousand years of history, Daemons Are Forever is at once a record of archaic...

This book is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Hindu contemplative praxis. It explores diverse sp...

Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha's main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu's avat...

The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed ...

Historically, Kashmir was one of the most dynamic and influential centers of Sanskrit learning and literary production in South Asia. In Poetry as ...