The Pratisthalaksanasarasamuccaya on Hindu Iconography

Reflections on Hindu Theology

On the Cataract Pricking of the Hindu

of the Sutra or traditions. When they were written down in their present form is not yet ascertained. A violent dispute has arisen among the learned whether Indian therapeutics are independent of, or influenced by, the Greeks. As among the investigators of ancient Egypt, so among those of ancient India, there are two parties,?the one who extols the knowledge of its protege to the skies, the oth...

The Iconography of Vermin

aughty, sharp-tongued, self-assured, unbearably self-sufficient, stingy, and violent beyond measure , " is how Georges de La Tour was described by his contemporaries. Municipal records confirm that he refused to pay his share to feed the hungry during times of famine. He assaulted an officer, beat a peasant, and made himself obnoxious to everyone by " sending his dogs after hare into the standi...

survey on the rule of the due & hindering relying on the sheikh ansaris ideas

قاعده مقتضی و مانع در متون فقهی کم و بیش مستند احکام قرار گرفته و مورد مناقشه فقهاء و اصولیین می باشد و مشهور معتقند مقتضی و مانع، قاعده نیست بلکه یکی از مسائل ذیل استصحاب است لذا نگارنده بر آن شد تا پیرامون این قاعده پژوهش جامعی انجام دهد. به عقیده ما مقتضی دارای حیثیت مستقلی است و هر گاه می گوییم مقتضی احراز شد یعنی با ماهیت مستقل خودش محرز گشته و قطعا اقتضاء خود را خواهد داشت مانند نکاح که ...

Hindu Medicine

Hindu medicine correctly judged by him is a composite system. It consists of a Dravidian system on which was superimposed an Aryan system on which in its turn was superimposed a Buddhist system. The Dravidian system centres round Dhanvantari who does not figure in the vedic pantheon of the Aryan immigrants. He is one of the 14 jewels churned out of the milky ocean at the beginning of time when ...