Kapila Vatsyayan

Come Carpentier de Gourdon

Papers collected in this volume are the outcome of a seminar organised in the memory of Raimon (or Raimundo) Panikkar.

A Pilgrim Across Worlds

Raimundo Panikkar

Baidyanath Saraswati

Contributed papers presented in five seminars.

Prakr̥ti: Primal elements, the oral tradition

Bettina Ba umer

Ramesh Chandra Sharma

Kalatattvakosa series of the IGNCA has endeavoured to evolve an important modern device to grasp the essential thought and knowledge system of the Indian tradition. Through an indepth investigation into the primary sources of various disciplines the series aims at facilitating the reader to comprehend the interlocking of different disciplines.

A Lexicon of Fundamental Concepts of the Indian Arts

Kalātattvakośa

Bettina Bäumer

Advaitavadini Kaul

Study, with reproductions, of late 17th-early 18th century miniature paintings based on Gītagovinda, poem by Jayadeva, 12th century, from the collection of Government Museum, Udaipur.

Mewari Gita-Govinda

The theory of rasa enunciated by Bharata has stimulated both creativity and critical discouirse in the Indian arts for nearly 2000 years. The text of the Natyasastra is as relevant to literature, poetry and drama as it is to architecture, sculpture, painting, music and dance. Its comprehensive treatment of artistic experience, expression and communication, content and form emerges from an integral vision which flowers as a many-branched tree of all Indian arts.

Bharata, the Nāṭyaśāstra

Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts

Kalatattvakosa

Written by one of most renowned culture historians of our times, the present fresh edition with an afterword by the author , describes and presents an analysis of forms such as Yaksagna,Bhagvatamala,Chau,Nautanki,Ramlila,Etc.

Multiple Streams

Traditional Indian Theatre

Traditions of Indian Folk Dance

Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern

Ramchandra Narayan Dandekar

A. K. Ghosh ((Of Ministry of Education, Government of India))

New Delhi, 4-10th January, 1964

Proceedings of the twenty-sixth International Congress of Orientalists

India is a pioneer in Performing arts. This books deals with five classical dance forms of india in detai, viz., Bharatanatyam,Kathakali,orissi,manipuri and Kathak.

INDIAN CLASSICAL DANCE

The Square and the Circle of the Indian Arts is a major contribution in Indian art history. More than a book on the theories of arts, it has far-reaching implications for the way one thinks about the future of indology and art history. It provides a model to be emulated for inter-disciplinary research, not only between the arts but also the sciences and the arts. The book begins by re-examining the imagery of the Vedas and the Upanisads, highlighting some aspects of early speculative thought which influenced the enunciation of aesthetic theories, particularly of Bharata in the Natyasastra. The next chapter introduces a new methodology of analyzing the rituals (yajna) as laid down in the Yajurveda and the Satapatha Brahmana, the best way to focus the relationship between the text and the practice. Four chapters follow – one each on drama (natya), architecture (vastu), sculpture (silpa), and music (sangita). Each presents some fundamental concepts of speculative thought, concerned with each of the arts and purposefully correlates these with actual examples both of the past and the present. The afterward to this second edition remains an event not only because the book benefits from the works published since the first edition, but also because it presents the author’s integral vision and her unique adventure into the boundaries of several disciplines. It demonstrates the efficacy of her earlier approach of investigating the imagery and the metaphors as basic to the discourse of the Indian tradition. She proposes a multi-layered cluster of concepts and metaphors which enable one to uncode the complex multi-dimensional character of the Indian Arts. Also significantly she suggests a deeper comprehension of the relevance of the developments in the field of traditional mathematics and biology for the study of the language of form of the Indian Arts.

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