Institut Francais de Pondichery | French Institute of Pondichery
| Product ID: | 9782855391519 |
| Book Name: | The Nisvasatattvasamhita The Earliest Surviving Saiva Tantra Volume I |
| Author Name: | Dominic Goodall |
| Price: | USD 65 |
| Description: | Ships via Express Courier. Delivers within a week. This volume presents a critical edition and annotated translation of the three earliest… |
| Product ID: | 9788184701180 |
| Book Name: | The Parakhyatantra A Script of The Saiva Siddhanta |
| Author Name: | Dominic Goodall |
| Price: | USD 60 |
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| Product ID: | 9788184701692 |
| Book Name: | Two Saiva Teachers of the Sixteenth Century Nigamajnana I and his Disci |
| Author Name: | T. Ganesan |
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This book is a complete analytical study of all the oeuvres of Nigamajñ?na I and his nephew-cum-disciple Nigamajñ?na II. This study aims at bringing to limelight the great contributions made by these two teachers in the sixteenth century for the consolidation, elaboration and propagation of the ?aivasiddh?nta religious system and philosophical doctrines. For the first time the contents of all the available texts of these two… |
| Product ID: | 9788184701999 |
| Book Name: | Mapping The Chronology Of Bhakti Milestones, Stepping Stones, and Stumbling Stones |
| Author Name: | Valerie Gillet |
| Price: | USD 40 |
| Description: | Ships via Express Courier. Delivers within a week Starting around the sixth century of the common era, a new form of fervent religiosity seems to be discernible in the Tamil-speaking South that is often termed the “Bhakti movement”. The eleven essays gathered in this volume all deal with South Indian primary sources related to the various phenomena that can be grouped together under the head of “Bhakti”, which may be broadly defined as personal devotion between a devotee… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702033 |
| Book Name: | Saiva Rites of Expiation A First Edition and Translation of Trilocanasivas Twelfth century Prayascittasamuccaya |
| Author Name: | R. Sathyanarayanan and Dominic Goodall |
| Price: | USD 45 |
| Description: | Ships via Express Courier. Delivers within a week Rites of expiation and reparation (pr?ya?citta) may not seem central to the history of the Mantram?rga, but they provide a fascinating angle from which to view the evolution of this broad religious tradition. Instead of focussing on the evolution and philosophical defence of ?aiva doctrines, or on the examination of ritual practices and of theories developed to justify and shore up such practices, this study puts the spotlight instead on… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702064 |
| Book Name: | Early Tantric Vaisnavism: Three Newly Discovered Works of The Pancaratra The Svayambhuvapancaratra, Devamrtapancaratra and Astadasavidhana |
| Author Name: | Critically edited from their 11th- and 12th-century Nepalese palm-leaf manuscripts with an Introduct |
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| Product ID: | 9788184702071 |
| Book Name: | The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata: The Religious Observances and Sexual Rituals Of The Tantric Practitioner Volume II |
| Author Name: | Csaba Kiss |
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| Description: | Ships via Express Courier. Delivers within a week The Brahmayamalatantra (aka Picumata) is probably one of the earliest surviving ?aiva tantras, and possibly the earliest one known to us of the Bhairavatantra tradition. The present volume contains a critical edition and annotated translation of three of its chapters: one on the central ma??ala of the cult, one on preliminary religious observances (vrata) prescribed for all practitioners (s?dhaka), and one on instructions for each individual category of s?dhaka — instructions on transgressive sexual rituals for the… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702248 |
| Book Name: | Domestic Rituals of the Atharvaveda in the Paippalada Tradition Of Orissa Sridharas Vivahadikarmapanjika Volume 1 |
| Author Name: | Arlo Griffiths and Shilpa Sumant |
| Price: | USD 40 |
| Description: | Ships via Express Courier. Delivers within a week The Karmapañjik? is a manual for the domestic rituals of the Paippal?da tradition. Claiming to follow a S?tra of Pai?h?nasi, the text was composed by an otherwise unknown ?r?dhara in Orissa in the 16th century CE. His work is a precious late-medieval witness to the Atharvavedic tradition, preserving archaic features dating from the Vedic period, but also showing much influence from various non-Vedic traditions… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702255 |
| Book Name: | My Sapphire Hued Lord My Beloved |
| Author Name: | Suganya Anandakichenin |
| Price: | USD 60 |
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| Product ID: | 9788184702262 |
| Book Name: | The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata (Two Volumes) |
| Author Name: | Shaman Hatley and Csaba Kiss |
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| Description: | Ships via Express Courier. Delivers within a week The Brahmay?mala or Picumata is one of the earliest surviving goddess-oriented (??kta) tantras, its core probably dating back to the late seventh or early eighth century. Though long forgotten, it is thus crucial to understanding the early history of the Tantric traditions.… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702262 |
| Book Name: | The Brahmayamalatantra or Picumata Revelation, Ritual and Material Culture in an Early Saiva Tantra Volume I |
| Author Name: | Shaman Hatley |
| Price: | USD 55 |
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| Product ID: | 9788184702361 |
| Book Name: | Flowers in Cupped Hands for Siva : A Critical Edition of the Sanbhupuspanjali , a seventeenth century Manual of Provate Worship by Saundaranatha |
| Author Name: | edited by Deviprasad Mishra with the help of the late S. Sambandhasivacarya and with an introduction |
| Price: | USD 35 |
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The Sambhupuspanjali is a seventeenth-century manual in 824 Sanskrit verses, with some prose, that describes the worship of Siva, not in a temple, but in a South Indian domestic context. It is full of quotations from scriptures and manuals of the Saivasiddhanta, notably those of Somasambhu (C11th), Aghorasiva (C12th) and Vedajnana (C16th). About the author, Saundaranatha, we can deduce… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702378 |
| Book Name: | Nisvasamukhatattvasamhita A Preface to The Earliest Surviving Saiva Tantra |
| Author Name: | Edited by Nirajan Kafle with a foreword by Dominic Goodall |
| Price: | USD 43 |
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This volume presents the first edition, along with an English translation, of a Sanskrit work of perhaps the seventh century surviving in a single ninth-century Nepalese witness: the Nisvasamukhatattvasamhita. It would be difficult to exaggerate the usefulness of this primary source for the history of the Saiva religions. Ostensibly an introduction to the Nisvasatattvasamhita, it purports to sketch the religious context in which the Mantramarga emerged. In so doing, it provides… |
| Product ID: | 9788184702453 |
| Book Name: | The Sumatipanjika : A commentary on Candravyakaranavrtti 1.1 and 1.4 |
| Author Name: | Edited by Ramhari Timalsina |
| Price: | USD 35 |
| Description: | The history of Sanskrit grammar has largely been dominated by the work of Panini and his followers, while the history and contributions of other Sanskrit grammatical schools remain under their shadow and are little known. The present work, a first critical edition of two extracts from the Sumatipanjika (1.1 and 1.4), a commentary by the Buddhist author Sumati (10th cent.) on the grammatical work… |
