Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Mahabharata in Asian literatures and arts
This chapter describes Mahabharata in Asian literatures and arts located on page 148 of volume Volume 1 in the book Cultural Horizons of India compiled by Musashi Tachikawa. This book comprises 50 years of research material of Lokesh Chandra and represents a thorough study of the ancient culture of India, dealing with Tantra, Buddhism, Art, Archaeology, Language and Literature in 7 volumes.
The first volume presents the evolution of ideas that emerge from a broad spectrum of quests in languages such as Sanskrit, Greek and Latin (etc.) and further presents an introduction to Indonesian history, art and linguistics.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Mahabharata in Asian literatures and arts. Everything together represents a huge collection of writings related to languages such as Sanskrit, Iranian, Sino-Japanese, Tibetan, Thai, Greek, Latin, Celtic, and Slavic..
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Performing Arts: All the performing arts in these four regions had something to do with literature and are comparable too. The Kathakali of Kerala has gained a status of not just a performing art but it also has an important place in the History of the Malayalam Literature. Similarly, the principles of Bharata natyam, prevalent mostly in Tamilnadu and Karnataka, are adapted to all literary genres, like Kavyas and Prabandhas....
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Vietnamese Buddhist Art [by Nguyen Ngoc Vinh]
Trade, political ambitions and religious pursuits led to a dissemination of philosophy, language, literature and art. Imported ‘ideas and ‘forms were amalgamated with indigenous practices, the assimilation leading to the development of a new idiom of expression with a distinctive, localized identity. From the Ashoka s missionaries, Indian traders in the first millennium had spread Indian scripts languages, literatures and faiths, especially Buddhism in South East Asian....
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Settlement in Early Historic Ganga Plain [by Chirantani Das]
(* 8) The Mahabharata, op.cit. Sabha Parva, ch.14, pp.672- 74 (* 9) The Mahabharata, op. cit. Sabha Parva, ch.14.53, p.675 (* 10) The Mahabharata, op. cit. Sabha Parva, ch. 15.24,p.678 (* 11) A. Sen, op. cit. p.19. (* 12) Ralph T. H. Griffith translated The hymns of the Rig veda, Delhi, Low price Publications, lll.53.14, 1991 p. 149, (* 13) Ralph T. H....
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