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Trends of Philosophical Thought in Mahabharata

Trends of Philosophical Thought in Mahabharata

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The Mahabharata is a rich mine of philosophical speculations and the source. of many inchoate systems of philosophy. As an encyclopedia of Indian culture, it accommodated the important thought ferments of that period. If philosophy is a reflection upon varieties of human experience, or rational, methodological, and systematic consideration of these topics which are of great concern to man, the great epic, the Mahabharata is a book of philosophy. Its vast canvas encompasses all aspects of human life in the early age of Indian culture which were later on crystallized into various darsanas of Indian philosophy. They were mainly six and practically incorporated the Indian thinking of those days. The Mahabharata has given a respectable place to almost all of them and consequently has become encyclopedic. Mrs. Joshi has taken an excellent survey of all those thoughts in banked titled "The Trends of Philosophic Thought in the Mahabharata."
 
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SKU: 9788180902741

  • PRODUCT INFO

    AUTHOR SUNANDA SHARAD JOSHI
    PUBLISHER BHARATIYA KALA PRAKASHAN
    LANGUAGE ENGLISH
    EDITION 1st
    ISBN 9788180902741
    PAGES 346
    COVER HARDCOVER
    OTHER DETAILS 9.00X6.00
    WEIGHT 540 GM
    YEAR       2011

    COUNTRY OF     

    ORIGIN

    		 INDIA                                                      

  • AUTHOR INFO

    Dr. Mrs. Sunanda Joshi hails from a family related to the field of education. She secured her B.A. degree in Economics and Politics in 1973. She worked for the Reserve Bank of India since 1966 and voluntarily retired from a managerial position in 1994. In 1995, to revive her interest in the Sanskrit language and Sanskrit Studies, she joined the Department of Sanskrit, University of Mumbai, completed Diploma Course in Sanskrit successfully, and enrolled herself in an M.A. course, offering Vedanta as her special sastra. She secured first class in this examination. Her interest in philosophy in general and Vedanta philosophy in particular induced her to work on 'Trends of Philosophical Thought reflected in the Mahabharata.' This excellent research work was submitted to the University of Mumbai in the form of a thesis for which a Ph.D. degree was awarded. She has been keeping herself engaged in further research and presenting her research papers at various Seminars and Conferences.

  • FOREWARD

    The Mahabharata is my philosophical speculation source of many inchoate systems of encyclopedia of Indian culture, it accommodated thought ferments of the period. philosophy is a reflection varieties experiences, or rational, methodological, and systematic considerations of these which are of great concern to man, the great epic, Mahabharata is a book of philosophy. vast canvas encompasses all aspects of human early Indian culture which crystallized into various darsanas philosophies. They were mainly six and practically incorporated Indian thinking in those days. The given respectable too and consequently become encyclopedic. Dr. Mrs. Joshi takes excellent of all those thoughts in her book entitled Trends of Philosophical Thought in the Mahabharata."

    In her work, Dr. Mrs. Joshi has appropriately explained the word 'philosophy'. As Vedanta, Samkhya Yoga constituted three important branches of Indian Philosophy, and has devoted one chapter to each one the above-mentioned Vedanta views are mostly propounded by the Upanisads Dr. Sunanda Joshi has copiously Upanisads while explaining the basic doctrines about the Ultimate Reality (Brahman), Individual Self (Atman), the relation body with the soul, the doctrine of sojourn the soul after death, the characteristics emancipated man a Yogin, the metaphor of chariots She appropriately substantiated her mode of analysis with the views Lokamanya Tilak, S.N. Dasgupta, and R.D. Ranade.

  • PREFACE

    As I started attending lectures course in Sanskrit with Vedanta Special interest the philosophical thoughts reflected Sanskrit Texts. studying Brahmasûtrasankarabhasya II. became admirer Sankaracārya who ably the views of the propounder's philosophies also Buddhism Jainism. induced to study the details of these philosophical systems well. the course of time, while reading Mahabharata, came to know that several trends are reflected therein. I thought of undertaking an attempt to why philosophical ideas have been incorporated to know whether ideas were in existence in the form of various systems before Mahabharata was composed or whether they were just different philosophical thought, which was merely transformed into different philosophical systems.

    In duty do express my feeling gratitude towards them, but whose assistance and guidance would have been simply impossible for me to complete this work. consider my first and foremost Dr. (Smt.) A.B. Ex-R.G. Bhandarkar, Professor and Sanskrit, University Mumbai who has always in sparing her valuable solving my difficulties. She gave the manuscript detailed and perceptive reading and made several valuable suggestions.

  • INTRODUCTION

    Philosophy is a subject that covers all the facets of human life. From time immemorial the human mind, awed by the regular cycle of all the happenings in nature, sometimes constrained by its incapacity, and helplessness to face the vagaries of nature, began to ponder over these phenomena. Man endeavored to find out and understand the forces behind those phenomena as also the intelligence which creates and guides them. During that search. it also occurred to him, what is the goal of this human life? What is the relation of human beings to that intelligence which guides this universe, the very substratum of all things? His speculations over these basic questions, the search for the ultimate cause of the cosmos, lead man towards philosophy.

    Various Definitions of Philosophy The scope of philosophy is so wide that attempts to define it precisely have been proved to be unsuccessful.

    According to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the Greek word 'Sophia' is ordinarily translated in English as wisdom and the compound philosophia from which philosophy derives is translated as the love of wisdom.' Chambers's Encyclopaedia which agrees with this definition, however, states that 'Sophia' had a wider range of applications than the modern English, 'wisdom'. It explains that wherever intelligence can be exercised there is room for Sophia. In contrast to this, modern English draws a sharp distinction between the search for wisdom and the attempt to satisfy intellectual curiosity.

     

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