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This is a fascinating depiction of the transformation of the Indian riverine goddess from the manuscript-carrying vīṇā -player to the Buddhist weapon-wielding defender of the Dharma. Drawing on Sanskrit and Chinese textual sources, as well as Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist art historical representations, this book traces the conceptual and iconographic development of the riverine goddess of knowledge Sarasvatī from some time after 1750 B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E. Through the study of Chinese translations of no longer extant Sanskrit versions of the Buddhist Sutra of Golden Light the author sheds light on Sarasvatī's interactions with other Indian goddess cults and their impact on one another.

Sarasvati --- Sarasvatī (Buddhist deity) --- Buddhist gods --- Sarasvatī --- Ardvī Sūrā --- Saraswati --- India. --- Sarasvatī (Hindu deity) --- Sarasvati (Hindu deity) --- Sarasvati (Buddhist deity)

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Purāṇa. Sarasvatī-purāṇa --- Commentaires --- Purāṇa. Sarasvatī-purāṇa --- Commentaires

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Pusan (Hindu deity) --- Sarasvati (Hindu deity) --- Pūṣan (Hindu deity) --- Sarasvatī (Hindu deity) --- Pūṣan (Hindu deity) --- Sarasvatī (Hindu deity) --- Pūṣan (Hindu deity). --- Pūṣan (Hindu deity). --- Sarasvatī (Hindu deity). --- Sarasvatī (Hindu deity). --- Hindu goddesses --- Pūshan (Hindu deity) --- Hindu gods --- Sarasvatī

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Why, Salmond asks, would nineteenth-century Hindus who come from an iconic religious tradition voice a kind of invective one might expect from Hebrew prophets, Muslim iconoclasts, or Calvinists? Rammohun was a wealthy Bengali, intimately associated with the British Raj and familiar with European languages, religion, and currents of thought. Dayananda was an itinerant Gujarati ascetic who did not speak English and was not integrated into the culture of the colonizers. Salmond's examination of Dayananda after Rammohun complicates the easy assumption that nineteenth-century Hindu ico

Idols and images --- Worship (Hinduism) --- Worship --- History --- Rammohun Roy, --- Dayananda Sarasvati,

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This book portrays the Himalayan-born River Saraswati, a legendary river that was the lifeline of a progressive and vibrant society for more than three thousand years. Written in simple language and richly illustrated, it highlights the events that resulted in the robbing of the Saraswati of its water and the end of a wonderful culture. The author weaves a geological narrative out of a mass of data generated by explorers, archaeologists, sedimentologists, geohydrologist, seismologists and remonte-sensing specialists. The story explains how a great Himalayan river disappeared and how the Harappan Civilization vanished from the banks of the river Saraswati more than three and half thousand years ago in the wake of tectonic upheavals in the foothills of the Himalaya at a time when the rainfall had drastically declined. And it reveals that nowadays the Saraswati is an extraordinary wide water-less channel coursing through the vast but dry floodplain in western India.

Structural geology. --- Saraswati River (India) --- Geohydrology --- Sarasvati River (India) --- Earth sciences. --- Sedimentology. --- Hydrogeology. --- Geomorphology. --- Archaeology. --- Earth Sciences. --- Structural Geology. --- Geology, Structural. --- Hydraulic engineering. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Physical geology --- Petrology --- Geomorphic geology --- Physiography --- Physical geography --- Landforms --- Geology --- Hydrology --- Groundwater