Search for dissertations about: "sanskrit"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the word sanskrit.

  2. 1. Listen how the wise one begins construction of a house for Viṣṇu : vijānatā yathārabhyaṃ gṛhaṃ vaiṣṇavaṃ śṛṇv evaṃ. Chapters 1-14 of the Hayaśīrṣa Pañcarātra

    Author : Elisabeth Raddock; Robert P. Goldman; Sally J. Goldman; Joanna Williams; Crawford Greenewalt; USA Berkeley University of California; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hayaśirṣa Pañcarātra; Sanskrit; temple; Viṣṇu; Agni Purāṇa; Hari Bhakta Vilāsa; ācārya; vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala; ritual; construction; ceremonial practice; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of a translation of the first fourteen chapters of Hayaśirṣa Pañcarātra and a detailed analysis aiming at its contextualization in historical, cultural, and theological milieus. The Hayaśirṣa Pañcarātra is a Sanskrit text from approximately the ninth century A.D. READ MORE

  4. 2. The Textual History of Kavikumārāvadāna : The relations between the main texts, editions and translations

    Author : Leif Asplund; Claus Oetke; Roland Steiner; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; buddhism; avadana; editions; Sanskrit; Tibetan; manuscripts; philology; indology; Nepal; NGMPP; Indology; indologi;

    Abstract : This study consists of three main parts. Part I contains introductory matter and a presentation of the manuscript material which contains stories about Kavikumāra, one of the Buddha’s earlier lives, and a rough classification of the material. READ MORE

  5. 3. A Study of Nominal Sentences in the Oldest Upaniṣads

    Author : Gunilla Gren-Eklund; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indologi särskilt sanskrit; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

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  6. 4. The Happening of tradition : Vallabha on Anumāna in Nyāyalīlāvatī

    Author : Anna-Pya Sjödin; Gunilla Gren-Eklund; Eli Franco; Purushottama Bilimoria; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indology; Logic--India--History; Vaiśeṣika History; Nyāya History; Vaiśeṣika--Early Works to 1800; Nyāya--Early Works to 1800; Philosophy--Indic; Vyāpti; Anumāna; Tarka; Upādhi; Parāmarśa; Nyāyalīlāvatī; Vallabhācārya 12th cent.; H. Bhabha; D. Chakrabarty; Indologi; Indologi särskilt sanskrit; Indology with Classical Sanscrit;

    Abstract : The present dissertation is a translation and analysis of the chapter on anumāna in Vallabha’s Nyāyalīlāvatī, based on certain theoretical considerations on cross-cultural translation and the understanding of tradition. Adopting a non-essentialized and non-historicist conceptualization of the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika/Navya-nyāya tradition, the work focuses on a reading of the anumāna chapter that is particularized and individualized. READ MORE

  7. 5. Patterns of Destiny : Hindu Nāḍī Astrology

    Author : Martin Gansten; Religionshistoria och religionsbeteendevetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Candrakalanadi; Devakerala; Gurunadi; Dhruvanadi; Amsanadi; karman; karma; predestination; free will; fate; purusakara; daiva; divination; astrology; jyotihsastra; jyotisa; Nadi; Hindu astrology; Non-Christian religions; Världsreligioner ej kristendom ;

    Abstract : Like all divination, Hindu astrology (jyotisa) is concerned with central religious issues such as man’s relation to the world, moral responsibility, and the revelation of a coherent divine order underlying human experience. Comprising a descriptive as well as a prescriptive aspect, jyotisa allows for both prediction and the exercise of free will. READ MORE