A 'caramaśloka' written by Brahmashri Sivasubrahmanya Sastri of Nochur

On the Current Situation of Vedic Śākhās. (Materials on Vedic Śākhās, 9) Vedic Śākhās. Past, Present, Future. Proceedings of the Fifth International Vedic Workshop. Bucharest 2011. Ed. Jan E.M. Houben, Julieta Rotaru & Michael Witzel. HOS Opera Minora 9, Cambridge 2016: 1-94

Yogeshwar Kutir Publications , 2018

About Chitpavan Konkanastha Brahmins' Origins **** Books by this author - Vibhakar V. Lele- in the series – ‘Origins of Chitpavan Brahmins’: 1. Vol. 1. Origins of Chitpavan Brahmins - Chitpavan Konkanastha Brahmins’ History [Proto- and Pre-] - 532 pages/ Published Print copy available on Pothi.com at ₹ 1500/- https://pothi.com/pothi/book/vibhakar-vitthal-lele-chitpavan-konkanastha-brahmins-history-proto-and-pre ** Abridged edition of above book as 2. Essentials Chitpavan Konkanastha Brahmins' History (Proto- and Pre) - 406 pages ₹ 900/- Available on Pothi.com as printed book at https://pothi.com/pothi/book/vibhakar-vitthal-lele-essentials-chitpavan-konkanastha-brahmins-history-proto-and-pre ** ii. As e-book on Pothi.com as ebook7539 at Rs. 400/- *** 3. Vol. 2. Sarasvati River - Ancestral Home of Chitpavan Brahmins - 245 pages/ ₹ 500/- Available as printed book on Pothi. com at- https://pothi.com/pothi/book/vibhakar-vitthal-lele-chitpavans-ancestral-home-sarasvati-river ** ii. As e-book on Pothi.com as ebook7538 at Rs.300/- **** This book pieces together the most important story of who they were, from where they came, their Kuladevatas, original habitats, customs and other important details. It categorically disproves the ancient hollow anecdotes based upon the mere mythical propositions and conjectural guesswork. The author would like to share the story with Chitpavans and well-wishers. Dr Rosalind O’Hanlon, Professor of Indian history and culture, Oriental Institute, Oxford, who is researching in the Chitpavan Brahmins’ history, during a communication, informed me on the underlying article on ‘The Roots Of Chitpavan Brahmins’ of which this book is a further elaboration that she found it most interesting and very much enjoyed, and learned from, all of the materials that this author had collected therein. Sources-1: Research paper by Mr. N. S. Rajpurohit, An eminent archaeologist from Karnataka, on Talagunda inscriptions; 2. Mr. Korati Sri Niwas Rao's book on ‘Sri Raghavendra Charitra’ (Kannada); 3. ‘Vyadeshwaroda Mahakavya’ by Vishwanatha (Early 17th century AD) 4. Lele Kulavrittanta and 5. Samrata Pulakeshi’s Shila-lekha This book, with annexures, comprises of the propositions about the prehistory of Chitpavan Brahmins. Most of the important scattered details have been put in place to stitch together the ancient and medieval history of Chitpavan Konkanastha Brahmins. At the same time, the author delves into their proto-history from the times of sage Agasti. __________________________________________________

Post-doctoral Report , 2009

Temple emerged as a significant and influential institution in medieval India, patronised by almost all classes of the society. The temples were endowed with villages, plots of land, gardens, oil-mills, cash donations, various commodities such as vessels, bells, ornaments, animals, grains, spices and innumerable other items. Very often, the temples had complete judicial, administrative and economic control over a large number of villages that were donated to them, many times in far-flung areas. In this way, temple evolved into a land-owning rich organization that carried out the multiple functions of a religious place, educational institution and also occupation-generating economic institution. The evolution of temple into such an important institution pose many interesting queries such as socio-economic-religious background of the rise of temples, nature of patronage and general function of the temple in contemporary society. This work aims to address some of these problems in the case of temples from Maharashtra, primarily with the help of epigraphic material, which comprises of around 255 inscriptions recording construction of temples and/or grants to these temples. Understanding the socio-economic-religious background of the rise of temples, evolution of temple institution, nature of patronage as well as nature and terms of endowments, functioning of temples and religious trends of the contemporary society, are some of the primary aims of this study.

Dissertation, 2022

This dissertation is a literary study of the voices of some of the better known, yet leaststudied, Sanskrit poets of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in the Tamil South. I argue that the circles of Nīlakaṇṭha Dīkṣita and his student, Rāmabhadra Dīkṣita, are characterized by a unique and shared literary style that reflects intimate connections between poets and readers. I show that these authors wrote themselves into their works in marked, yet deliberately oblique, ways. Their voices allow the modern scholar of premodern India to glimpse what it means to be a person who sees himself as part of the Sanskrit cosmopolis, long after Sanskrit itself had ceased to be the exclusive idiom of political and cultural expression in the subcontinent, and centuries after thriving multilingual literary spheres came to be established in various parts of the subcontinent. The weight of the authoritative Sanskrit tradition of writing is far from being a burden for these authors: they write as if Sanskrit poetry can only get better, and its canon of luminaries can continue to expand. I call these authors’ mode of authorship “intimately cosmopolitan”: they feel at home in the Sanskrit tradition, which is in turn experienced in their small Brahmin villages and transmitted through their beloved teachers, family members, and students. They seek to embody the entirety of a vast Sanskrit corpus in all disciplines, and simultaneously present themselves through the gurus and immediate family members with whom they shared their lives. These clashing scales, of centuries-old Sanskrit knowledge systems alongside their intimate worlds of the classroom or village home, brought these authors to celebrate and experiment with the range at their disposal, rather than lament their place and time. Much of their literary endeavors can be read against these contrastive scales. This corpus of literature, rarely read in academic contexts for its literary value or content, is nevertheless unique. It conveys an attitude toward tradition that is neither traditionalist nor revolutionary: it is rather a consistent attempt to master the vast tradition of Sanskrit letters by playing with it, with deep respect yet with a notable lack of reverence, from within. It presents a densely intertextual and self-referential vision of poetry, accompanied by a double voice and hybridity of register. Writing within an intimately cosmopolitan milieu also entails that these authors’ self-insertions are deeply collective: they are orchestrated through intricate intertexts from the Sanskrit tradition of knowledge and literature, and further include their intimate genealogical ties with their teachers and kin (who were often the same), as well as their personal God or Goddess, whom they are often said to embody. Through these signature techniques, we can sense and analyze their senses of authorship and formations of self. These convey a heightened singularity, yet they are never in the singular: they are interwoven with the people, gods, and traditions that these authors took to be significant. Their work was not designed to travel wide, but it was premised on the sustainment of intimate genealogical networks. That these poets have a role in our received understandings of the history of Sanskrit poetry is largely the result of this genealogical logic: the prominent modern scholars Kuppuswami Sastri and his student V. Raghavan were direct descendants of these poets’ emphasized networks of students and kin. Throughout the dissertation, I pose and nuance questions regarding the broad epistemic, cultural, and economic models that inform this corpus of literature. These shed light on the role of hereditary capital in intellectual households in tax-exempt Brahmin villages in the Tamil heartland, on the particular relationship of Sanskrit literature with multilingual cultural production at the nearby court of Thanjavur and in the Tamil-speaking South, and on the role of Sanskrit knowledge, and particularly of Sanskrit poetry, in the lives of these influential early modern Sanskrit poets. In the thesis, I attempt to do justice to these authors’ largely forgotten, yet remarkable literary programs and ambitions, and to situate their work in the larger stories of Sanskrit literature and cultural production in the early modern period in South India.

Asiatische Studien / Études Asiatiques, 2012

This article aims to follow the process of adoption of Navya-Nyāya techniques of cognitive analysis in the school of Vedic hermeneutics, Mīmāṃsā, in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, in the larger context of the spread of these techniques in India. I shall argue that this process arises in Mīmāṃsā on the sidelines of the Advaita-Dvaita Vedānta controversy in South India, then subsequently flourishes in Varanasi. These techniques are adopted gradually and selectively, for not all the Mīmāṃsā thinkers choose to use them.

IGNOU , 2020

The history of the Rashtrakutas is considered as an important phase in the history of India. From the collapse of the Chalukyas of Badami to the revival of Chalukya power under Taila II at Kalyani is roughly two centuries, and during this long interval the line of Rashtrakutas started by Dantidurga continued to rule Western Deccan. The circle became complete. The memorials of Rashtrakuta rule in art, architecture, religion, and literature claim an essential place in the heritage of India.

CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT INDIA ~ VICTIM OF CONCOCTIONS AND DISTORTIONS gives real chronology of ancient india with PROOF OF epigraph and inscriptions and is irregutable. The chronology of ancient kingships is also given

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Dharmaprajna, 2017

Pandurangi family has been actively engaged in the teaching and research of Indian Shastras in general and Dvaita Vedanta in particular for the last seven hundred or more years. It is attached to the Dvaita Vedanta from the time of establishment of Dvaita Vedanta and its founder Sri Madhvacharya. This article is part of the "Dharmaprajna" commemoration volume of Sri Satyaprajnatirtha Svamiji of Uttaradimatha.

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