Indica Books
Banaras : Cosmic Space of Life, Light and Twilight
Banaras in the Early 19th Century
Benares Seen from Within
Benares: A World Within a World (HB)
Benares: A World Within a World (PB)
Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage
One of the most popular and widely performed dance styles in India and around the world, bharata natyam has made the transition from its beginnings in the temples and courts of southern India to a highly respected international dance practice. In this study of a classical dance form, author Janet O'Shea tracks the choreographic transformations that accompanied the transfer of bharata natyam to the urban concert stage in the 1930s and 1940s.
Bhasa Pariccheda
The Bhasa-Pariccheda with its commentary, the Siddhanta-muktavali, by the same author, Visvanatha Nyaya-Pancanana Bhattacarya, is a manual on the Nyaya-Vaisesika Philosophy which is extensively read throughout India by all who want to get a fair knowledge of the subject within a short compass. Through inteded for beginners, it is a pretty difficult book, the chief reason for which is its extreme terseness. In 1850 Dr. E. Roer published an English edition of the Bhasa-pariccheda, with extracts from the Muktavali, which is long out of print. An English rendering of the work with the Muktavali was therefore overdue.
Brahma Sutras
The present compendium in English of the Sri-Bhashya, is similar to an earlier one of Sri Shankar's commentary on the Brahma-Sutras by Swami Vireswarananda. The foreword presents a scholarly resume of the Sri-Bhashya. The Introduction contains an illuminating comparative study of the commentaries by Shankara, Ramanuja, Vallabha, Nimbarka. and Madhva. It includes with a section drawing attention to the harmony underlying these different commentaries.
Brahman and the World
This book proposes to take up the question of Universal Causation to examine thoroughly as how far it is right to regard Brahman as the Universal Cause and how far sutrakara himself lent his support to each of the interconflicting schools of Vedanta. This book should, therefore, benefit all who are devoted to the philosophic teachings of Advaita Vedanta and its preceptors.
Buddhism
This book by a renowned Pali scholar is of great academic worth as it expounds the seminal ideas, key concepts and basic theories of Buddhist thought pertaining to dhamma and abhidhamma. It is a well thiught out work based on wide study and deep thinking of the concerned literature. It touches the kernel of Buddhist ethics and philosophy. According to Indian culture cosmic process and humanlife is teleological, purposive and goal-oriented.
Buddhist Philosophy in India and Ceylon
This work attempts to dispel many misconceptions about the origin and development of Buddhist thought and philosophical systems. The approach adopted by the author steers clear of the customary attempts which try to assess the measure in which Buddhism, in the course of its development, attains conceptions familiar in the modern thought
