The Great Epic of India
Price: | Rs.225.00 |
Detail Of The Great Epic of India
ISBN | 8120809955 |
Pages | 480 |
Language: | English |
Product Code: | 1 |
Size(in cm): | 8.8 inch X 6.0 inch cm |
Weight(in grams): | 680(approx) |
Description:
CONTENTS
PREFACE V
CHAPTER ONE.
LITERATURE KNOWN TO THE EPIC POETS 1
The Vedas 2
Division of Veda 7
Upanishads 9
Upavedas and Upangas 11
Sutras 15
Dharmacastras 17
Vedic citations in the Epic 23
Upanishads in the Epic 27
The Cvetacvatara Upanishad 28
The Kathaka or Katha Upanishad 29
The Maitri Upanishad in the Epic 33
The Atharvaciras Upanishad 46
Acvalayana Grhya Sutra 47
Puranas and Itihasas 47
Drama 54
CHAPTER TWO
INTERRELATION OF THE TWO EPICS 58
CHAPTER THREE
EPIC PHILOSOPHY 85
Epic Systems 85
Heretics 86
Authority 90
EPIC PHILOSOPHY-Continued
Vedanta 93
Nyaya 95
Vaicesika 96
The Four Philosophies 96
Kapila and his System 97
Samkhya and Yoga 101
Fate and Free-Will 103
Samkhya is atheistic 104
Yoga as deistic and brahmaistic 106
Difference between Samkhya and Yoga 111
Sects 115
The different Schemata 118
The Gunas 119
Plurality of Spirits 122
The Twenty-fifth Principle 125
Samkhya is Samkhyana 126
The Samkhya Scheme 127
The Twenty-sixth Principle 133
Maya, Self-Delusion 138
Pancacikha’s System 142
The Thirty-one Elements (Pancacikha) 152
The Secret of the Vedanta 157
Details of philosophical speculation 162
The Sixty Constituents of Intellect 163
The Seventeen 165
The Sixteen (A) Particles 168
The Sixteen (B) or Eleven Modifications 169
The Eight Sources 170
The Vital Airs and Senses 171
The five Subtile Elements. Gross and Subtile Bodies 173
The Colors of the Soul 179
The Five faults of a Yogin 181
Discipline of the Yogin 181
The Destructible and Indestructible 182
The Gods and the Religious Life 183
Heaven and Hell-Death 184
The Cosmic Egg and Creations 187
The Grace of God 188
CHAPTER FOUR
EPIC VERSIFICATION 191
Epic Versification 191
Cloka and Tristubh. The Padas 194
Rhyme 200
Alliteration 202
Similes and Metaphors. Pathetic Repetition 205
Cadence in Cloka and Tristubh 207
Tags 211
Common forms of Cloka and Tristubh 214
CHAPTER FOUR
EPIC VERSIFICATION 191
Epic Versification 191
Cloka and Tristubh. The Padas 194
Rhyme 200
Alliteration 202
Similes and Metaphors. Pathetic Repetition 205
Cadence in Cloka and Tristubh 207
Tags 211
Common forms of Cloka and Tristubh 214
The Epic Cloka. The Prior Pada of the Cloka. The Pathya 219
The Vipulas 220
The Posterior Pada of the Cloka 239
The Diiambus 242
Poetic Licence 244
The Hyopermetric Cloka 252
Dialectic Sanskrit 261
Prose-Poetry Tales 266
The Epic Tristubh. I, The Regular Tristubh in the Mahabharata 273
Bird’s eye View of Tristubh Padas 275
The Ramayana Tristubh 276
The Scolius 277
Catalectic and Hypermetric Tristubhs 281
ii-iii, The Catalectic Tristubh 282
iv-ix, The Hypermetric Tristubh. iv-vi, Simple Hypermeters 286
vii-ix, Double Hypermeters or Tristubhs of Thirteen Syllables 298
Defective Tristubhs 299
v, b, and ix, Mora-Tristubhs 301
The Tristubh-Stanza. Upajatis. Upendravajras and Indravajras 309
The Syllaba Anceps 314
Emergent Stanzas 317
The Fixed Syllabic Metres 321
Rathoddhata 322
Bhujamgaprayata 323
Drutavilambita 324
Vaicvadevi 325
Atijagatis. Rucira 326
EPIC VERSIFICATION-Continued.
The Fixed Syllabic Metres (continued)-
Praharsini 329
Mrgendramukha 331
Asambadha 332
Vasantatilaka 333
Malini 334
Cardulavikridita 336
Ardhasamavrtta (Matrachandas). A – Puspitagra and Aparavaktra 336
B – Aupacchandasika and Vaitaliya 341
Matrachandas in the Mahabharata 343
Matrasamakas 353
Ganacchandas 354
The Distribution of Fancy Metres in the Epic 356
CHAPTER FIVE
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE EPIC 363
CHAPTER SIX
DATE OF THE EPIC 386
Appendix A. Parallel Phrases in the Two Epics 403
Appendix B. Illustration of Epic Cloka Forms 446
Appendix C. Illustrations of Epic Tristubh Forms 459
FINAL NOTES 471
INDICES 477
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