Sri Satguru Publications Bhasabodhini: A Sanskrit Reader - Softcover

Malaya Gangopadhyay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8170309344 ISBN 13: 9788170309345

Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications, 2011

Synopsis

Language: English
Pages: 244

About the Book
This is the third and final hook of compilation of the teaching materials provided for the Sanskrit course offered by the CAE in Melbourne. Although the primary focus was on learning the language, it was assumed that focussing on selected representative literary fragments and becoming acquainted with the relevant background information would be both interesting and valuable to mature students. The intention was to give a brief overview of some Indian religious and philosophical concepts including the idea of discipline. While the second book explored the meaning of devotion and the devotional path, mainly with reference to Visnu and Krsna, that in the present volume this devotional theme is continued through the, study of selected texts relating to the mother Goddess and Lord Siva.
Dr. Malaya Gangopadhyay is presently living in Australia.
Preface
Long before Sir William Jones established a link between the European languages such as Greek, Latin, Celtic and Persian and Sanskrit in 1786, Fillipo Sassetti, an Italian merchant who lived in Goa from 1583 to 1588, found a definite relationship between Sanskrit and the European languages.
Subsequently the interest grew in Sanskrit and other Asian languages. The most notable Western Scholars of the nineteenth and twentieth centurys are Benfy, Max Muller, . Roth, WInnt ey, Oldenberg, Weber, Burnell, Van Schroedgr, Bloomfield, Giffith,Macdonell and Monier Williams, to name just a few.
However, Calmette's work on the Rgveda and the Aitareya Brahmana was the first notable contribution on Vedic literature. It may not be out of place to mention that much of the nineteenth century Western Scholars' inspiration in studying the ancient language and literature of distant lands was to prov

About this edition

• Publisher: Sri Satguru Publications
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 8170309344
• ISBN 13: 9788170309345
• Binding: Paperback