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Great Epics and Puranas in Sanskrit Literature
  • Great Epics and Puranas in Sanskrit Literature

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    The Sanskrit Epics fall into two main classes, the one comprising old stories and legends known as Itihasa and Purina and the other comprising poems known as Kavyam or ornate epics. The Mahabharata has exercised a great influence on the later Puranas and the Ramayana has served as a model for later court epics of the post-Purana age.

    The Ramayana is a great epic of mankind. It is also known as Adi-kävya (first epic), written by the Adi-kavi (first poet) Valmiki. This famous Indian epic deals with social, moral, political, spiritual, and philosophical aspects of human life, besides principally narrating the story of Räma. The Ramayana is a highly popular epic that has become the property of the Indian people and it is not an exaggeration if it is said that it has influenced more than any other poem the thought and poetry of a nation for thousands of years.

    The Mahabharata itself claims that Maharshi Veda Vyasa composed the work as a great Dharmasastra, as Arthasastra, Moksasastra, and also Kamasastra. In the last parvan, it claims that whatever is said in it would be found elsewhere and what is not contained it would not be found anywhere else i. e. it claims to be encyclopedic work and hence there was a great incentive for later scholars to add to it fresh matter.

    The Puranas are known as the fifth Veda in Indian culture. Puranas aim to acquaint the general mass with the teachings and philosophy of the Veda which are to be adopted as the principle and thus achieve the goal of life. As Vedavyasa says: "itihasa purānābhyam vedam samupabṛmihayet." Various Puranas provide us with valuable information about the social religious and cultural life of ancient and medieval India.

    Hence, this book would be immensely useful to the students as well as researchers to know and understand Indian Culture & History in a positive direction.

    SKU: 9788180903472
    • PRODUCT INFO

      AUTHOR N.C. PANDA
      PUBLISHER BHARATIYA KALA PRAKASHAN
      LANGUAGE ENGLISH
      EDITION 1st
      ISBN 9788180903472
      PAGES 358
      COVER HARDCOVER
      OTHER DETAILS 9.00X6.00
      WEIGHT 600 GM
      YEAR       2014                                                       

      COUNTRY OF     

      ORIGIN

      INDIA                                       
    • AUTHOR INFO

      Dr Narasingha Charan Panda (Dr N.C. Panda). Professor of Sanskrit, Vishveshvaranand Vishvabandhu Institute of Sanskrit and Indological Studies Panjab University, Sadhu Ashram, Hoshiarpur, is well-known in the field of Indological Research, who combines in him a comprehensive understanding of scholarly issues, impartial judgment, and an exemplary clarity of expression.

      After Graduation (B.A. Sanskrit Hons.) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar & Post graduating & M.Phil.,(Indian Philosophy) degree from Kurukshetra University, he obtained Ph.D. Degree in Vedic Studies from Panjab University, Chandigarh.

    • PREFACE

      The Puranas provide us with valuable information about the social religious and cultural life of ancient and medieval India. It is noteworthy that despite exaggerations, myths, and legends, some of these works throw considerable light on the early political history of India. The Eighteen Maha Puranas enunciates the meaning and the implication of vice and virtues in our life in various ways. They elaborately describe the aim of our life to make our life more virtuous and fit to achieve the goal of four Puruşärthas, i.e. dharma, artha, kama, and mokşa. Hence, the Puranas explain the real truth and value of life and thus serve the purpose of the welfare of mankind in their way.

      The Puranas are a sort of encyclopedia endeavoring to deal with the histories of five independent subjects, viz. creation and recreation of the universe, gods, reigns of fourteen Manus, and the kings of the solar race as Rāma and others, and the lunar race as Pandavas and others. Similarly, are mentioned the dynasties of the Nandas, Mauryas, Guptas, and others. In no other country or civilization, such a gigantic attempt was ever made to threaten so many subjects in such single volumes.

      The Puranas are a vast storehouse of authentic materials supplying themes or many works of classical Sanskrit, prose, poetry, and drama. They also contain useful geographical information and also mention different cults of worship, vratas, and tirthas.

    • INTRODUCTION

      The origin of the Sanskrit epics may be traced to the dialogue hymns in the Rgveda. In the later Vedic literature, i.c. the Brahmaṇas we find references to the Itihasas, Akhyānas, and Puranas. There is ample evidence to show that the recital of these epic poems formed a part of the religious ceremonies at sacrificial and domestic festivals. Although there is no proof that collections of such poems existed as books, still it cannot be denied that the professional storyteller, ice. Aitihāsikas and Paurānikas existed in very ancient times. The epic poets and even the Buddhists and the Jainas draw abundantly from the rich store of narratives Itihāsas, Akhyānas, Purāņas, and Gathas that had accumulated in pre-Buddhistic times. The Mahabharata refers to the 'great itihasas' which alludes to ancient poems of epic character. That the number oust 'ancient tales' of epic character must have furnished a large body of epic phrase as well as fable, out of which and based on which our present epics arose is rendered more probable also by the fact that such epic verses as are preserved in other works, although not always from the extant epics, yet have the same character as the verses of the Rāmāyaṇa and the Mahabharata. Finally, the epic itself admits that the present text is not the original one: It means some poets narrated this Itihasa on the earth, others narrate now, and similarly, others will narrate.

       

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