Vaisnava Contribution to Varanasi

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Item Code: IDK136
Publisher: D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Author: R. C. Sharma and Pranati Ghosal
Language: English
Edition: 2006
ISBN: 8124603421
Pages: 174 (13 B/W Illustrations)
Cover: Hardcover
Other Details 8.9" X 5.9"
Weight 420 gm
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Varanasi, the abode of Lord Siva has also embraced other sects including Vaisnavism. If Siva is Nataraja or Natesa, Krsna is known as Natavara dancing with gopis. There are traditions which reveal that Kashi was once a Vaisnava stronghold. In the medieval period many Vaisnava saints from different quarters thronged to Varanasi to preach and popularize their faith. The book projects the Vaisnava contribution to Varanasi in literature, sculptural and other artistic renderings, visual and performing arts temples, festivals and ceremonies.

About the Author

Prof. R. C. Sharma headed important Museums of the country like Government Museum, Mathura; State Museum, Lucknow; Indian Museum, Kolkata and finally, the National Museum, New Delhi as the Director General, and Vice-Chancellor, National Museum Institute. He also served the Banaras Hindu University as the Director, Bharat Kala Bhavan and Professor of Indian Art and Museology. Presently, he is the Honorary Director/Acarya of Jnana-Pravaha – Centre for Cultural Studies and Research, Varanasi. Journals and bulletins in the field of early Indian art, he has contributed a large number of papers published in India and abroad.

Dr. Pranati Ghosal is a promising scholar in the field of Sanskrit and Vedic studies and engaged in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Varanasi Branch. She has contributed brilliant papers in different seminars and co-edited five issues of the Annual Research Bulletin and twelve proceedings of Jnana-Pravaha. Her important publications are Prasnavali and Lifestyle of the Vedic People.

Besides the present volume, the two authors have co-edited impressive books on Buddhism and Gandhara Art, Interaction Between Brahmanical and Buddhist Art, Jaina Contribution to Varanasi and Sakta Contribution to Varanasi.

Preface

To serve Indian culture and express esteem to knowledge-endowed, prestigious Kasi, were the main inspiring elements in the background of the foundation of Jnana-Pravaha. Therefore, a well knit chain of programmes covering education, research and sacraments (samskaras); weaved "Radiance of Kasi," as an annual performance

Flow of knowledge is a perennial tradition in Kasi, genesis of which transcends research and is unconstrained by the limits of religious as well as sectarian enclosures. Different principles and beliefs have taken birth here and have developed to their fullness. Like margacalavyatikara-kuliteva sindhuh, this stream of knowledge is flowing uninterrupted even today with its energetic velocity. Following the change of seasons its nature has certainly under-gone some variations but the flow continues. Jnana-Pravaha is a drop is this current of knowledge, which is astonishingly radiating Kasi's enchanting treasure of encyclopaedic knowledge.

Seated in the centre, Siva Himself manifest in different forms – sometimes as Saiva and sometimes Bauddha, sometimes Jaina, sometimes Sakta and sometimes yet another. The conception of navisvamur-teravadharyate vapuh is true but a desire to experience His knowledge and acts (lila) is also our end. Vaisnava nature (character) of Kasi or the Vaisnava contribution to Kasi is a link of the same chain of thinking. We are grateful to those erudite scholars who had participated in the two-day symposium held on 1-2 August, 2001 and presented their academic oblations through deliberation.

The majority of papers presented in the seminar were in Hindi but this volume gives their English version.

Smt. Bimla Poddar, Founder & Managing Trustee, Jnana-Pravaha and Sri S.K. Mittal of D.K. Printworld. Deserve special thanks for taking initiative in this publication. The assistance of Dr. Neeraj Kumar Pandey and Sri Chandraneel Sharma is also appreciated.

 

Contents

 

  Preface v
  List of Illustrations ix
  Transliteration Chart x
1 Vaisnava Contribution to Kasi: An Introduction 1
  -Vidyanivasa Misra  
2 Vaisnava Contribution to Radiance of Kasi 7
  -Goswami Shyam Manohar Ji Maharaj  
3 Vaisnava Contribution to Radiance of Kasi 15
  -Pranati Ghosal  
4 The Mediaeval Vaisnava Bhakti Movement and Kasi 25
  -Vasudeva Singh  
5 Vaisnava Image of Kasi 39
  -Yugeshvara  
6 Vaisnava Ideology of Kabira 53
  -Shyam Sundara Shukla  
7 Vaisnava Adoration 71
  -Acharya Ganga Sharana Shastri  
8 Kasi: The Abode of Lilas 79
  -Bhanu Shankara Mehta  
9 Pustimargiya Vaisnava Tradition in Kasi 87
  -Brajratnadasa Gupta  
10 Contribution of Vaisnava Saints of Maharashtra to Kasi 95
  -Nilkanth Purushottam Joshi  
11 Vaisnava Haveli Music 107
  Pradip Kumar Dikshit "Neharang"  
12 Vaisnava Texture of Kasi: An Antiquarian Perspective 119
  -R.C. Sharma  
13 Visnu in the art of Kasi 129
  -Maruti Nandan Prasad Tiwari
- Pramod Giri
 
14 Vaisnava Images of Kasi 137
  -Kamal Giri  
15 A Copy of "Bhagavata Bhakha" Illustrated in Kasi 145
  -Rai Ananda Krishna  
  Our Contributors 153
  Index 155

 

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