Cultural Horizons of India
author: Musashi Tachikawa
edition: 1990, International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan
pages: 2743
Topic: History
Literature cited
This chapter describes Literature cited located on page 246 of volume Volume 7 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.
Volume 7 deals with the study of Sanskrit hymnology and the references to music in Vinaya and in several other texts. It further deals with Buddhist music in contemporary China, Korea and Japan.
This book covers the research articles and general surveys of Professor Lokesh Chandra. For example, this chapter describes Literature cited. 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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Folk Tales of Gujarat (and Jhaverchand Meghani) [by Vandana P. Soni]
Titles are not translated but transcribed and cited in bold italics. 2. Brief notes in the beginning or footnotes or notes on the rear jacket of an anthology given by Meghani are translated and cited in square brackets. 3. In the anthology of Kankavati, there are many stories which are not in the paragraph form but they are given in the centre of the page. The same format is maintened in the translation. 4....
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Impact of Vedic Culture on Society [by Kaushik Acharya]
There are extensive descriptions of the types and norms of dana in early buddhist as well as vedic and post-vedic literature. For example, as discussed above, the buddhist literature talks of dhammadana that is the gift of spiritual blessings....
Read full contents: 1.E: Buddhist Expression of Charity
Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh (early history) [by Prakash Narayan]
On the other hand, the status identification of groups which were ranked high in Buddhist literature correspond to the kula divisions of the khattiyas, brahmanas and gahapatis. There are many instances of clans referring to themselves as Khattiyas, apart from the examples cited where the Buddha is referred to as a khattiya. In the Mahaparinibbana sutta various clans come forward and ask for a share of the Buddhas ashes saying ‘mayam pi khattiya (we too are khattiyas)....
Read full contents: Empirical Relevance of Vanna, Jati and Kula
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