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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Vedic"”.
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Art and consciousness in light of Maharishi Vedic science
… of art and consciousness in light of Maharishi Vedic Science. Maharishi Vedic Science is a complete science of consciousness and its expressions, based on ancient Vedic knowledge, as elucidated by His Holiness Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the foremost scholar in the field of consciousness. The …
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Design of low power high speed digital vedic multiplier using 13T hybrid full adder
… arithmetic circuits. In this thesis, a 4x4 bit Vedic multiplier has been successfully designed using the combination of Urdhva Triyakbyam Sutras and 13 transistors (13T) hybrid full adder (HFA). The Urdhva Triyakbyam algorithm satisfies the requirement of a fast multiplication operation which …
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Free word-order syntax: The challenge from Vedic Sanskrit to contemporary formal syntactic theory
Vedic Sanskrit, the early Indo-European language spoken by the Aryan invaders of India in the 2nd millenium B.C.E., is a language showing little if any evidence for levels of syntactic organization between that of lexical items and that of maximal projections of those items. But the large corpus of …
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Viewing Helen of Sparta and Draupadi of Pancala: A Comparative Approach
… in characterizing Helen and similarly, pre-Vedic and Vedic in the portrayals of Draupadī. This dissertation is broken up into three parts and two chapters each. While the first part of the dissertation focuses on Helen and Draupadī as casus belli and also as silent women, the second part …
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Social and political ideas of early Buddhism
… were first laid in the oldest literature of the Vedic period (the Vedic Samhitas and the Brahmanas). These ideas were later developed through varied channels such as the literature of Brahmanical law books (Smrtis), Epics and Puran as, Kautilya's Arthasastra, unorthodox canonical works of the …
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Social and political ideas of early Buddhism
… were first laid in the oldest literature of the Vedic period (the Vedic Samhitas and the Brahmanas). These ideas were later developed through varied channels such as the literature of Brahmanical law books (Smrtis), Epics and Puran as, Kautilya's Arthasastra, unorthodox canonical works of the …
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A GENERAL THEORY OF CORRELATIVITY
… are a subtype of relative clauses. Focusing on Vedic Sanskrit, Old and Young Avestan, Old Persian, Hittite, and Homeric Greek, the study presents both synchronic and diachronic analyses to illuminate the syntactic behavior and historical evolution of correlativity. Synchronic analysis reveals …
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Dharma and the enjoined subject: Jaimini’s Mīmāṃsāsūtras and the study of ritual
… of dharma can be read as a philosophy of Vedic practice that is centred on the enjoinment of the subject, whose stages of transformation can be seen to possess the structure of a hermeneutic tradition. This argument, which places subjectivity and tradition at the heart of the explanation …
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Exploring Emptiness: Beckett and Buddhism via Arthur Schopenhauer
… as emptiness and the ‘veil of Maya’, which is a Vedic philosophical concept. ‘Maya’ means illusion, and Schopenhauer’s phrase ‘veil of Maya’ refers to a mask that covers the reality of the world.<br/><br/>In Beckett’s work, ‘veil of Maya’ signifies that the representation of the world ‘as it is’ …
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The Smṛti of Pitāmaha in Medieval Indian Jurisprudence: A Critical Reconstruction of the Pitāmahasmṛti and a Critical Edition of the Divyaśuddhi, with a Historical-Religious Study of Indian Ordeals
… the development of Indian ordeals from the Vedic period to the colonial era. This analysis mainly relies on sources from the Vedic corpus, the Sanskrit epics, the Purāṇic literature, and notably the Dharmaśāstra tradition, situating the ordeal institution within the long history of legal …
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The Mari Lwyd and the horse queen : palimpsests of Ancient ideas.
… complete reference to this deity can be seen in Vedic texts from 1500 BCE. Documentary evidence in rock art, and sixth century BCE Tartessian inscriptions demonstrate that the ancient Celtic world saw this deity of the land as a Horse Queen that ruled the land and granted fertility. Evidence …
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Nala as Nara, Raja, & Yudhisthira: Masculinity, Kingship, & Dharmic Suffering in the Nalopakhyana
… composers, drawing heavily upon earlier, Vedic texts, to reassert a system of gendered social ethics in response to the rise and popularity of contemporary, heterodox ascetic movements such as Buddhism. I further argue that Nala provides valuable insights into how such strategies were used …
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Approaching the Formless: the non-figurative art of the Hindu traditions and its relevance to a contemporary arts practice
… of the non-figurative imagery of the Vedic and Tantric traditions through an Arts Practice as Research methodology. The research engages with traditional arts practices, and considers whether the practice of copying sacred artworks is able to inform a contemporary arts practice. The …
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Shanti Mandir: Authenticity, Economy and Emotion in a Yoga Ashram
… engage in this system in order to experience a ‘Vedic way of life’ through a syncretic form of neo-Hinduism. The principal goal of which involves possibly attaining liberation in this lifetime (jīvanmukta). The three groups that comprise the disciples: Renunciants, Scholars and Patrons work …
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Shanti Mandir: Authenticity, Economy and Emotion in a Yoga Ashram
… engage in this system in order to experience a ‘Vedic way of life’ through a syncretic form of neo-Hinduism. The principal goal of which involves possibly attaining liberation in this lifetime (jīvanmukta). The three groups that comprise the disciples: Renunciants, Scholars and Patrons work …
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The Long Augment in Homer: a formula-based approach
… show an eta instead. These forms were linked to Vedic instances of long augments by part of the relevant literature. Other scholars preferred to explain the Greek instances as inner developments, while others denied any philological validity for the long augment as an actual morpheme, and rather …
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Bhaṭṭa Jayanta on Sentence Meaning: A Study in the second half of the 5th book of Nyāyamañjarī
… an exhortative statement in general and the Vedic injunctions in particular. For this, it draws upon the second half of the fifth book of the Sanskrit work, Nyāyamañjarī, written by the 9th century AD Kashmiri intellectual, Bhaṭṭa Jayanta. This text dialectically discusses rival views on …
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Vāstu-śāstra for Christian spiritual well-being in St Thomas ancient church architecture of the Malabar Coast (southwest India)
This thesis studies the application of the Vedic architectural wisdom of Vāstu-śāstra for spiritual well-being in three pre-colonial churches of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church. It also addresses the need for Christian inculturation in church architecture, raised in the Literature Review. The …
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Ancient Greek Hymns and Pastoral Gods: Comparative Studies in Poetics and Mythology
… etymological relation between the Greek and Vedic terms meaning hymn: humnos and sumna-, respectively. In the second part of the thesis, the comparative approach is taken further to investigate the relations and equivalences between some relevant mythological recipients and performers of …
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Linguistic and Phenomenological Theories of Verbal Cognition in Mīmāṃsā: A Study of the Arguments in Śālikanātha's Vākyārthamātṛkā-I and the Response in Sucarita's Kāśikāṭīkā
… their foundational resolve to disambiguating Vedic comprehension, a similar attitude is reflected in their speculations on the nature of language as well. Unlike some other schools of the Indian philosophical tradition, Mīmāṃsā philosophers admit the reality of words and word-meanings, which …
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