TIME AND ETERNITY
ISBN : 81-85503-00-1
(1990, viii+107 pp. bib., ref., index)
Rs.110.00
Man’s awareness of Time has been articulated in ancient and modern civilizations through cosmologies, metaphysics, philosophy, religion, theology and the arts….Read More
Coomaraswamy propounds that though we live in Time, our deliverance lies in eternity. All religions make this
distinction between what is merely “everlasting” (or “perpetual”) and what is eternal. To probe into this mystery Coomaraswamy provides us with a detailed account of the teachings of each of the main world religions. Present edition embodies all marginal corrections which Coomaraswamy made on the first edition published during
1947 in Ascona, Switzerland.
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ACROSS THE HIMALAYAN GAP : AN INDIAN QUEST FOR UNDERSTANDING CHINA
ISBN : 81-212-0585-9
Edited By :Tan Chung
(1998, xxvi+553pp., col. and b&w illus.)
Rs.1,200.00
This book is the fruition of Step 1 of a project launched by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA) whic is a premier Indian research institution dedicated to a holistic understanding world civilization and to the promotion…Read More
of information and insight between different cultures of the world. “Sino-Indian Studies” is a special window of IGNCA drawing inspiration from Gurudeva Rabindranath Tagore’s longing for reenacting the history of the “great pilgrimage” and path-opening” – “to maintain the [Sino-Indian] “intercourse of culture and friendship”, in Tagore’s own words. Dr. Kapila Vatsyayan, blazed a new trail in 1990, leading scholars of India and China to “look at each other” instead of trying to see each other’s country through the Western Hemisphere. All the 40 Indian authors in this volume have contributed their mite to this endeavour–making it a book that parades the various Indian perspective on China, on her civilization, history, society and present developments. While scrutinizing their writings, readers also get a glance over Indian Savants’ observations and Indian leaders’ addresses at Chinese universities. The book also targets the Chinese readership with the aim of creating its companion volume of Chinese perspectives on India which is the Step II of the IGNCA project in promoting indepth understanding between the two most populous countries–close neighbours and partners of the 21st century.
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AJITAMAHATANTRA
ISBN : 81-208-1969-I
Edited By :NE. RE. BHAT, JEAN FILLIOZAT, PIERREE-SYLVAIN FILLIOZAT
(2005, 5 vols., xii+277pp)
Rs.4,500.00
The Hindu temple is the seat of a full culture including material commodities and services, arts ranging from cooking and flower decoration, to music and philosophy. To conceive, build, organize, manage, maintain such a privileged site of culture, an authentic and well-thought out theory and guidance is required…Read More
Sanskrit Āgamic literature plays this role. The Śaiva religion is based on a set of twenty-eight Tantras. The Ajitamahātantra is the fifth in a traditional list, a lengthy text, which invites the reader to approach the Saiva religion in a form, which probably goes back to the Cola period and is definitely located in Tamil Nadu. In eighty-nine chapters, it offers a systematic account of the installation of liṅga starting from the selection of the stone and construction of the temple to the great ceremony of installation of the deity. Thereafter it deals extensively with the daily worship, festivals and occasional rituals, with iconography, subsidiary rituals, as well as the rites of atonement of faults and failures.
The present publication in five volumes is the second revised critical edition with English translation and annotation. Wherever possible, descriptions have been illustrated with theoretical drawings or photographs of actual monuments and icons.
| Volume |
ISBN |
| 2005, 5 vols., xii+277pp. (vol. I) |
81-208-1969-I |
| vi+383pp. (vol. II) |
81-208-1970-5 |
| vii+419pp. (vol. III) |
81-208-1971-3 |
| vi+42opp. (vol. IV) |
81-208-1971-I |
| xxi+185pp. (vol. Y) |
81-208-1973-X |
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APPEARANCE / SYMBOLIC FORM ABHASA VOL. VI
ISBN : 81-208-1917-9
Edited By :Sukumar chattopadhyay & narasingha charan panda
(2008, xxxiv+459 pp., line drawings, Illus. 34, bibl., index,)
Rs.1,000.00
The volume is the sixth manifestaton of the series devoted to key concepts of Indian art and deals with the abstract or symbolic forms containing closely related to eight terms where the basic concept of Ābhāsa, appearance or seemliness or reflection is inherent. Ābhāsa helps to realize the structure even in the symbolic or invisible formThis volume contains eight articles on the following concepts Ābhāsa, sādṛśya-sārūpys, anukaraṇa, anukṛti, anukīrtana, chāya, liṅga, pāda, vṛtti, rīti.
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ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF SOUTH-EAST ASIA
ISBN : 978-81-7305-408-2
Edited By :BACHCHAN KUMAR
(2011, xvi+116pp.index, bibl., illus. col.29, b/w 17)
Rs.1,100.00
Art and Archaeology of South-East Asia is an outcome of two consecutive seminars organized by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi. It has eleven selected studies on South-East Asia by eminent scholars of the subject…Read More
Cultural contacts between India and South-East Asia began much before the appearance of Sanskrit inscriptions in the middle of the first millennium CE. This book contains a wealth of information on sculptural, architectural and monumental art forms of South-East Asia and its contemporaneous art forms in India. In its stride, it explores the common narratives and the aesthetic and iconographic links between India and South-East Asia.
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Art as Dialogue – Essays in Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience
ISBN : 81-246-0043-0
Edited By :Goutam Biswas
(1995, 155pp., index,)
Rs.200.00
It focuses on a totally new methodology for understanding the concept of aesthetic experience, a dialogue between the subject and the object, I and Thou. Most significantly, the conception of…Read More
“art as dialogue” is stipulated to work not as a means, but as an end, i.e. the consummation of art-experience itself. In this scheme the principle of relationship, not the substance, constitutes the reality of aesthetic experience and the model allows one to encompass within its scope the pre-linguistic, linguistic and trans-linguistic phases of the
relationship between the man and the art.
Book Reviewed by Prasenjit Biswas
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ART EXPERIENCE
ISBN : 81-7304-180-6
Edited By :M. Hiriyanna
(1997, xiii+113pp.)
Rs.250.00
For decades, Prof. Hiriyanna’s Art Experience has been a lamp which has provided illumination to many a serious student of Indian aesthetic. The volume carries fifteen contributions on topics of Indian aesthetics…Read More
After a penetrating analysis of the fundamental concepts envisaged from a traditional point of view, Hiriyanna interprets them succinctly. He elucidates the theory of rasa from the point of Sāṁkhya in a masterly fashion; equally illuminating are the other essays on rasa and dhvani and Sanskrit poetics.
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ART, AESTHETICS AND PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 978-81-246-0764-0
Edited By :S.G.KULKARNI & KAVITA CHAUHAN
(2015,xxvi+174 pp.)
Rs.420.00
The savants of the twentieth century have excavated the past to discerningly reveal the present. Swami Vivekananda, Rabindranath Tagore, Sri Aurobindo, Mahatma Gandhi and Ananda Coomaraswamy, among other, interpreted Indian aesthetics, civilization, culture and philosophy unearthing the Indian wisdom…Read More
against the wrong interpretations and teachings of the Western colonial scholars. This volume, a collection of papers presented at a national seminar on the Philosophy of Ananda Coomaraswamy held in February 2011, approaches Commaraswamy’s philosophy on Indian aesthetics, life and religion from different perspectives.
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Banarsidas Chaturvedi Ke Chuninda Patra
ISBN : 81-267-1109-4
Edited By :Narayan Dutt
(2006, (in 2 vols.))
Rs.650.00
बीसवीं सदी के पूर्वार्द्ध में नए हिन्दी समाज के निर्माण में साहित्य की भूमिका इतनी निर्णायक थी कि तब के हमारे सभी महत्त्वपूर्ण साहित्यकार नए समाज के निर्माता के रूप में भी जाने जाते हैं। बनारसीदास चतुर्वेदी भी उन्हीं में से एक थे। हिन्दी की जातीय संस्कृति तथा मनीषा के विकास के लिए उन्होंने सबसे अलग और मौलिक राह चुनी थी।…Read More
पत्रकारिता तथा वैचारिक लेखन में उल्लेखनीय जगह बना चुके चतुर्वेदीजी ने पत्रों के माध्यम से हिन्दी समाज को जोड़ने और इसकी आंतरिक जड़ता को तोड़ने का काम किया। उन्होंने अपने लम्बे जीवनकाल में हजारों लोगों को पत्र लिखे। उनमें अपने समय के प्रतिष्ठित लेखक और जननायक ही नहीं, वैसे सामान्य जिज्ञासु पाठक और कार्यकर्त्ता भी थे जो समय तथा समाज की चिन्ताओं से गहरे जुड़े थे।
चतुर्वेदीजी ने पत्रों को सृजनात्मक और कलात्मक ही नहीं बनाया, इसके माध्यम से ही इसकी उपादेयता को रेखांकित भी किया और एक स्वतंत्र विधा के रूप में प्रतिष्ठा दिलवाई।
उनका पत्रलेखन असाधारण रूप से व्यापक और वैविध्यपूर्ण था। वह उनकी दिनचर्या का अंग बन गया था। उनके द्वारा लिखे गए पत्रों की संख्या एक लाख से भी अधिक हो सकती है। अधिकांश पत्र हिन्दी में लिखे गए हैं, मगर अंग्रेजी पत्रों की संख्या भी कुछ कम नहीं है। कुछ पत्रों में मिली-जुली भाषा का भी प्रयोग हुआ है।
चतुर्वेदीजी के सभी पत्रों को ढूँढ़ निकालना तो सम्भव नहीं था, लेकिन नारायणदत्त जी ने वर्षों के परिश्रम के बाद अधिकांश महत्त्वपूर्ण पत्रों को संकलिक किया है, जिन्हें दो ज़िल्दों में प्रस्तुत किया जा रहा है। ये महज़ एक साहित्कार-पत्रकार के पत्र नहीं है, बल्कि पिछली सदी के हिन्दी समाज के चिन्तन, वैचारिक संघर्ष और संस्कृति के जीवंत दस्तावेज़ हैं।
| Volume |
ISBN |
Price |
| 607pp. (vol I) |
81-267-1109-4 |
Rs. 650 |
| 508 (vol. 2) |
81-267-1110-8 |
Rs. 550 |
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