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Kfar Sama, a village in Lebanon
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ISBN: 0898700620 Year: 1984 Publisher: San Francisco (Calif.): Ignatius press

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Ārya-Śūra's compendium of the perfections: text, translation and analysis of the Pārāmitāsamāsa
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ISBN: 3923776071 9783923776078 Year: 1986 Publisher: Bonn: Indica et Tibetica,

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Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna’s Metaphysics of the Healing
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ISBN: 9789004430372 9789004434523 9004430377 Year: 2020 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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"In Necessary Existence and the Doctrine of Being in Avicenna's Metaphysics of the Healing Daniel De Haan explicates the central argument of Avicenna's metaphysical masterpiece. De Haan argues that the most fundamental primary notion in Avicenna's metaphysics is neither being nor thing but is the necessary (wājib), which Avicenna employs to demonstrate the existence and true-nature of the divine necessary existence in itself. This conclusion is established through a systematic investigation of how Avicenna's theory of a demonstrative science is employed in the organization of his metaphysical science into its subject, first principles, and objects of enquiry. The book examines the essential role the first principles as primary notions and primary hypotheses play in the central argument of Avicenna's metaphysics"--

Women heroes and Dalit assertion in north India : culture, identity, and politics
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ISBN: 9352800575 1282154095 9786612154096 8132102800 9788132102809 9780761935377 0761935371 Year: 2006 Publisher: New Delhi ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications,

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This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. The book studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) to build the image of its leader, Mayawati. While demonstrating how myths and memories of the role of Dalits in India's freedom struggle are employed for constructing identity, and then reconstructed for political mobilization, this book. - narrates some of the tales used t

Greek vases in the San Antonio Museum of Art.
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ISBN: 1883502047 Year: 1995 Publisher: San Antonio San Antonio museum of art

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Logics of empowerment : development, gender, and governance in neoliberal India
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ISBN: 0816666512 Year: 2008 Publisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press,

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Celebratory news features about India's thriving middle class tell only part of the story of the country's recent economic rise, frequently glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on the margins and struggle to survive under economic liberalization. How do those cast out of their country's successes perceive and respond to their position and mobilize against disempowerment? In Logics of Empowerment, Aradhana Sharma takes up these questions, focusing on the work of an innovative women's program called Mahila Samakhya that is part governmental and part nongovernmental and strives to empow

La déesse Usas : recherches sur le sacrifice de la parole dans le Rgveda
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ISBN: 9068311344 Year: 1988 Volume: 89 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve Peeters

Myth as argument : the Brhaddevata as canonical commentary
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ISBN: 3110138050 3110812754 9783110138054 Year: 1996 Volume: 41 Publisher: Berlin ; New York, NY : Walter de Gruyter,


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The Rigveda : a guide
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ISBN: 9780190633363 0190633360 9780190633370 0190633379 9780190633394 9780190633387 9780190633400 0190633409 0190633387 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY Oxford University Press

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"The Ṛgveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature; yet it is comparatively little known outside a small band of specialists. The oldest Sanskrit text, composed in the latter half of the second millennium BCE, it stands as the foundational text of what will later be called Hinduism. The text consists of over a thousand hymns dedicated to various divinities, composed in sophisticated and often enigmatic poetry. Its range is large - encompassing profound meditations on cosmic enigmas, exuberant tributes to the wonders of the world, ardent praise of the gods and their works, moving and sometimes painful expressions of personal devotion, and penetrating reflections on the ability of mortals to approach and affect the divine and cosmic realms through sacrifice and praise. This guide introduces the text to a wider audience. It provides an overview of the text, its structure and the process of its composition and collection; treats its purpose and how this purpose is reflected in the contents and structure of the text; gives a sense of the text by quoting verses and complete hymns; situates it in the religious practices of its time; and considers its use and reception in later periods, which saw profound changes in religious practices and beliefs. It will also introduce the literary qualities of the text and the poets' belief in the role of their poetry in making sense of, and indeed creating, cosmic order and function by pressing the boundaries of language itself."--

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