9 research outputs found
A rare presentation of hyperhomocysteinemia and folate deciency asCSVT in young male
No full textIntroduction: Cerebral sinus venous thrombosis (CSVT) is a relatively rare, potentially fatalneurological condition that can be frequently overlooked due to its vague nature and its variedspectrum of clinical presentation. It’s a multifactorial condition with gender-related specific causes.It’s a rare form of venous thromboembolism representing almost 0.5-3 % of all types of stroke,affecting predominantly younger people, and females three times more commonly affected thanmales. Incidents in adults are 3- 4 million. The diagnosis of CSVT is becoming easier now days dueto advanced neuroimaging techniques. Abnormality in the thrombophilic profile is associated withenhanced risk of CSVT. It has varied etiologies such as the Hypercoagulable States (inherited) that ishyperhomocysteinemia, protein C and protein S deficiency, Antithrombin-III deficiency, Factor Vleiden mutations, autoimmune causes. Other acquired causes like CNS infection, trauma,dehydration, pregnancy, substances abuse and oral contraceptives
Dilemmas of Trishanku
No full textThis is an interesting account of our contemporary society that is plagued with several contradictions depicted in the puranic mould. Taking the puranic character of how Trishanku was hanging in the air belonging neither here nor there, the author narrated important events and socio-economic processes that keep artisans of certain castes as displaced persons while upper castes make suitable adjustments for upward mobility. The author has identified the Three Cs, corruption, casteism and communalism as disturbing trends that tear apart present-day Indian society. He has aspired that the three Ds, development, democracy and diversity might tackle them. Using Emic and Etic approaches, the author explains his participant observations for the benefit of the perceptible reader. Around 300 pages book is reasonably priced
Sacred Biography, Translation, and Conversion: The Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan and the Making of Bengali Islam, 1600-present
No full textThe present dissertation is a study of the Nabivamsa, The Prophet\u27s Lineage, the first biography of the Prophet Muhammad to be composed in Bangla, in the first half of the seventeenth century. A literary milestone in the multi-ethnic, multi-cultural history of Islam, it marks a significant contribution to Bangla\u27s rich literary corpus, and became a canonical work for the late-medieval Islamic Bangla literary tradition. This hitherto little-studied text is used to examine the nature of Islamic expansion on Bengal\u27s eastern frontier, addressing issues of religious competition, identity formation, and conversion. These were central concerns of the author, Saiyad Sultan (fl. 1615-1646), who was an important Sufi pir. By situating the Nabivamsa, on the one hand, in the literary traditions of medieval Islam -- historiographies, tales of the prophets, biographies and ascension narratives of the Prophet Muhammad -- and in local Bangla epic, puranic, and hagiographical traditions, on the other, the dissertation studies the processes of translation by which local cultural figures and Bangla literary forms are used to legitimate and root the Arabian Prophet of Islam in Bengal. In examining the life of a text across the subject-author-text-community continuum over a time-span of nearly four hundred years, the dissertation traces the Nabivamsa\u27s trajectory from its manuscript circulation in southeast Bengal into the print era, investigating the author\u27s legacy and the text\u27s meaning in various publics of memory
Magnanimous Kunti by Samaresh Basu/ সমরেশ বসুর কলমে মনস্বিনী কুন্তী
No full textSamaresh Basu wrote a number of books based on Puran-Mahabharata under the pseudonym Bhramar and Kalkoot. Such as, ‘Shamba (1978)’, ‘Juddher Sesh Senapati (1984)’, ‘Prachetas (1984)’, \u27Pritha (1986)\u27, ‘Antim Pranay (1987)’ etc. ‘Pritha’ was published in the magazine \u27Prasad\u27 under the pseudonym \u27Bhramar\u27. In such books, the author analyzed the traditional story of the Puranas in a new perspective.
One of the memorable Panchakanyas in Puranas, Empress Kunti has been recreated in the light of the author\u27s spirit in this book. In the present article we will discuss how the character of Kunti has been recreated by Samaresh Basu in \u27Pritha\u27.
At the beginning of the story, before reaching the context of Kunti, the author undertakes a very realistic analysis of heaven-hell, Gods-demons, Samhita era-Puranic era, male-female relationship, marriage customs, child birth and the position of women in society. Then he explained the solitude, self-immolation and transition of Kunti from a feminist perspective.
The story of love-marriage-motherhood-heroism-restraint-pain-sacrifice of this remarkable female character of Mahabharata has been captured in a new way in the unique writing of Kalkoot. Inventing many thoughtful arguments the author tried to establish the father-son relationship between Yudhisthira-Vidura and Karna-Durbasha. How the author incarnated new contexts in the familiar story of Mahabharata and how he made it acceptable by arranging relevant arguments in favour of his new thoughts – this essay will try to elaborate these points
Taking off the curtain of illusion : a thing about Siva, cosmic magic and the magical city of Kasi
No full textThe paper deals with the most common problems concerning the Absolute-oriented philosophy, namely: how creation is possible at all and what kind of communication (if any) there is between the Absolute and Its creation? The possible resolutions are presented on the instance of the puranic Saiva tradition. Through the number of the key-concepts (i.a.. the magical city of Siva) the author tries to present the main core of the Saiva teachings on the mystery of the creation, the self-hidening and self-revealing activity of the Absolute, the hide-and-seek game It plays with Its creation. We do not know why the world was created. But we know that the Absolute, through Its mysterious magic, has hided Itself under the cover of the cosmic illusion thus creating the bonds of the nescience. While doing so It has left the number of the tokens, the symbols conceivable for the individual being endowed with the capacities to pierce through this illusion and nescience. Once touched by God’s salvatory grace this very being has started to leant how to read the obscure symbolic language of the Absolute communicating with Its creation. If he has been succeded then his cosmic pilgrimage comes to its end - through the power of this very knowledge he has been liberated from the clutches of the cosmic illusion. And it is so, mainly because the tokens the Absolute speaks through are not just the things. Instead, they are highly transformative symbols infused with Its divine energy
Obraz jogi i mocy jogicznych w „Bhagawatapuranie” ; The image of yoga and yogic powers in the „Bhāgavata-purāṇa”
No full textThe Bhāgavata-purāṇa, one of the most important Vaishnava texts, dates from around the 6th-8th century AD, a period when the system of classical yoga was already well known, while haṭha-yoga had not yet been formed, although its particular practices were already in use. The article presents yoga as a phenomenon perceived to some extent from the outside - from the distance created by the perspective of Puranic Vaishnavism, which on the one hand was part of widely understood Vedic orthodoxy, and on the other was strongly influenced by the pan-Indian devotional current of bhakti. The article is primarily concerned with what the authors of the Bhāgavata-purāṇa understand by yoga, how they describe it and make value judgments about it, and which of its elements they adapt to their own practice. In the Purāṇa we find extensive descriptions of yogic discipline in its very concrete forms, including detailed meditation procedures, as well as fascinating portraits of yogis and illustrations of the yogic powers they acquire, called śakti. The author devotes particular attention to 'Book XI' of the text, especially the section called Uddhava-gītā, in which the god Krishna discusses in detail the text's preferred method of yoga in twenty-three chapters of conversation with Uddhava
О возможности использования данных пуран для исследований ригведийского общества
No full textДревний и средневековый ВостокОдной из ключевых исторических проблем истории добуддийской Индии является полное отсутствие для него бесспорной абсолютной хронологии. Все современные исследователи сходятся на том, что ригведийское общество существовало ранее времени войны Махабхараты. Но пураны утверждают, что война пришлась на начало кали-юги, что не соответствует господствующей хронологии истории Древней Индии. Статья рассматривает основные сведения пуран, касающиеся указанных событий. В результате устанавливается,что сведения пуран, при всей их недостаточности, являются существенными и позволяют совместить их не только с данными современных наук, но и с другими индийскими источниками, прежде всего, с сутрами.One of the major historical problems of Indian history before Buddha times is the absence of any evident absolute chronology. All modern researches indicate that the Rigvedic situation used to take place before Mahabharata war. However, the Puranas also testify, that the war had been started in the beginning of Kali-yuga, which does not match the mainstream chronology of Ancient India. The article reviews the principle Puranic data for all those key-points. As the result, the author concludes, that the evidence of Puranas, in spite of its undoubted shortages should be regarded as essential ones, and can be combined both to correspondent results of modern sciences and to the other Indian sources primarily to sutras
La Jaiminîyasamhitâ du Brahmândapurâna, Madhyamabhâga, adhyâya 1-15 (Les quinze premiers chapitres de la partie médiane du Recueil de Jaimini dans le Purâna de l'oeuf-de-Brahmâ) : introduction, édition et traduction
No full textEditio princeps of the first 15 chapters of a work belonging to the Puranic genre, rediscovered in Kerala from palm-leaf manuscripts in Malayalam script. The Sanskrit text, critically established on the basis of the comparison of five manuscripts, is given in Latin script and furnished with a French annotated translation. The introduction deals successively with the history of the discovery, the structure, contents and sources of the work, the questions of its date, place, audience and author, and, finally, the description of the manuscripts used and the editorial rules adopted.
Editio princeps des quinze premiers chapitres d'une oeuvre du genre purânique, redécouverte au Kérala à partir de manuscrits sur feuilles de palme en écriture malayalam. Le texte sanskrit, établi critiquement sur base de la comparaison de cinq manuscrits, est donné en translittération latine et accompagné d'une traduction française annotée. L'introduction aborde successivement l'historique de la découverte, la structure, les contenus et les sources de l'oeuvre, les questions de sa date, du lieu de sa composition, de son audience et de son auteur, et enfin la description des manuscrits utilisés et les principes éditoriaux adoptés.Agrégation de l'enseignement supérieur (philosophie et lettres) (FLTR 3A)--UCL, 200
La question de la non-dualité dans la Jaiminiyasamhita du Brahmandapurana. Le JanakaprasnaLe Janakaprasna
No full textLa Jaiminiyasamhita, en partie inédite, est une œuvre puranique de nature «encyclopédique». Dans une section de six chapitres intitulée « La question de Janaka » (Janakaprasna), le roi Kartaviryarjuna rend visite à Dattatreya, afin de recevoir un enseignement sur l’advaita, la «non-dualité». Ce dernier lui rapporte l’enseignement que le sage Asita transmit autrefois au roi mythique Janaka. Cette «question de Janaka», à l’instar des Upanisad, se présente sous la forme d’un dialogue entre un maître et un disciple. La thématique au cœur de ce dialogue concerne la nature du brahman et son rapport au corps. Elle permet à l’auteur de faire montre de l’étendue de son savoir dans des domaines aussi riches que variés: le développement embryonnaire et les théories physiologiques, les conceptions cosmogoniques, les paradoxes de la non-dualité et les disciplines de salut, en particulier le yoga, influencé par des conceptions tantriques. Cette editio princeps du Janakaprasna est accompagnée d’une traduction et d’un commentaire qui approfondit les thématiques abordées, avec une attention particulière pour l’identification des sources et des textes parallèles. The Jaiminiyasamhita, which is partly unpublished, is a puranic and encyclopaedic work. In its section called «Janaka’s question» (Janakaprasna), King Kartaviryarjuna questions Dattatreya about the «non-duality» (advaita). The latter gives the answer that the wise Asita gave once to the mythical King Janaka. «Janaka’s question», exactly as the Upanisads, is composed as a dialogue between a master and his disciple. Its central theme is the nature of Brahman and the relationship of the former to the body. Therefrom, the author shows the extent of his knowledge in many and various fields: embryonic development and physiological theories, cosmogonical conceptions, paradoxes of non-duality, paths to salvation, especially yoga, influenced by Tantric patterns. This editio princeps is accompanied by a translation and a commentary that goes deeper into the different topics and focuses its attention on the sources and parallel texts
