Studies in Jaina Art and Iconography and Allied Subjects in Honour of Dr. U.P. ShahR. T. Vyas The Present Volume Is Published By The Oriental Institute, M.S. University Of Baroda In Sacred Memory Of Late Dr. U.P. Shah, Ex-Deputy Director And General Editor, Ramayana Deptt. Of The Institute. It Contains Research Articles Specially Written By Scholar-Friends Of Dr. Shah From The World Over, Ranging From Jaina Philosophy, Jaina Iconography, Art-History To Indian Literature In General, As His Interest Too Ranged To All The Afore-Mentioned Subjects. As Will Be Evident From The Life-Sketch And The Bibliography Of His Works, Dr. Shah Made An Impact In The Field Of Jaina Iconography And Art-History, Though He Handled, With Equal Felicity, Subjects Related To Oriental Studies. Some Of The Articles Appearing In This Volume Break New Ice Regarding Certain Knotty Points Of Jaina Philosophical Thought And Religious Practices. It Would Be Helpful To View The Contents Of This Volume From The Standpoint Of Long, Mutual Affinity And Correlatedness Of The Ancient Vedic And Jaina Traditions That Flourished Coevally Over A Great Stretch Of Time In This Country Of Uncommon Tolerance And Understanding Of Opposing Ideas And Ideals, Evincing Brilliant Insights Into The Problems Of Being And Consciousness Ever Probed By Human Mind. The Methodology Of Symbolical Representation Of Transcendental Principles And Perceptions Evolved In Both Jaina And Brahmanical Traditions Of Thought Is Well-Documented In This Volume, Which Will Prove To Be A Treasure For The Students Of Oriental Studies In General And Indology In Particular |
Contents
An Indologist and Art Historian | 1 |
Dr U P Shah Some Reflections | 11 |
Evolution and Appraisal | 15 |
Two Jain Yantras of the Fifteenth Century | 20 |
Vaddamanu An Early Jaina Site in Guntur District Andhra Pradesh | 27 |
Jain Epistemology | 35 |
Some Educational Implications of Jain Philosophy | 43 |
Doctrine of Karma and Jaina Ethics | 47 |
The Cult of Paraśurāma and its Popularity in Orissa | 159 |
Manuscript Sources for Old GujarātiOld Western Rājasthāni Dialectology | 193 |
On the Status of Old IndoAryan Reconstructions | 197 |
Lists of the Major Purānas as Obtained in the Puranas | 201 |
Rāmāyana Manuscripts | 205 |
A Note on Passages 9 and 13 of Appendix I of the Uttarakānda | 211 |
Hagiography and Sects in the Medieval Vaisnava Bhakti of Western India | 217 |
Sanskrit Geographical Tables | 229 |
The Regional Tradition of Early Medieval Sapta Mātṛkā Sculptures in Western India Rajasthan and Gujarat | 55 |
Jaina Sculptures from Rohtak | 67 |
A Rare Marble Sculpture of Naminātha from Bhatinda District Bhatinda Punjab | 72 |
An Assessment | 77 |
Local History and Chaitya Paripati | 83 |
Hayagriva at Khajuraho | 87 |
A Proposed Methodology for the Study of System of Proportions in Indian Temple ArchitectureThe Case Study of Sunak Temple | 91 |
On Some of the Iconometric Details in the SamarānganaSūtradhāra of Bhojadeva | 105 |
Beginning of New Iconological Cycle | 111 |
Invocations and Petitions in the Soma Hymns of RgvedaSamhitā IX | 115 |
The Notion of Distinctive Features in Sanskrit Phonetics | 125 |
Māmaki and the Altindische Grammatik | 135 |
A Note on Asti | 137 |
Rāmāyana and Public Discourse in Medieval India | 141 |
A Brief Survey | 267 |
The Vivarta | 277 |
Some Unconventional Views on Rasa | 281 |
Some Minor RāmāyanaPoets in the Medieval Gujarati Literature | 287 |
Some Remarks | 299 |
SitātyāgaWhether Kālidāsa Wrote It First? | 303 |
IndoEuropean Beliefs in Classical Greek and Indian Drama | 311 |
Marital Status of the Nymph Urvaśl in Kālidāsas Vikramorvaśīyam | 323 |
Contents of RāmāyanaSome Observations | 333 |
The Compound Verb in Gujarati and its Use in Connected Text | 339 |
New Light on the Ancient History of Kauśāmbi | 357 |
A Survey of ManuscriptCollections in Gujarat | 361 |
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