This book consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, we look at early Sm?ti cosmogonies presented in MS 1 and MDhP 175–176, 240. It is argued that the creation of the world is seen as a...
This book is an attempt to reconstruct the efforts of the ancient Indian thinkers in understanding the world and themselves. They expressed their concepts in a textcalled the Rgveda, which is...
During many meetings and conversations in the last ten years about ourprofession or even one could say passion – literature, we had the impressionthat there is much in common betw...
This volume presents the final results of a project on emotions carried out byspecialists in Oriental and African studies dealing with the languages, literaturesand cultures of Asia and...