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| Author | : Nīlakaṇṭha (of Rajamangalam) |
| Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 1985 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 9788120800052 |
Download The Elephant-lore of the Hindus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book is intended to serve as an introduction to the elephant-lore of Hindus. It consists primarily of a translation of the Elephant-Sport (Matanga-Lila) of Nilakantha, with notes, introduction, and glossary. The Matanga-Lila is without doubt the best available Sanskrit work on elephantology. It is a brief and succinct treatise in 263 stanzas, divided into twelve chapters of uneven length. Nothing is known of the Nilakantha who is mentioned as its author. According to the editor, Ganapati Sastri, the three manuscripts he used are about two hundred years old. But the work is probably very much older. For aught we know it may go back a thousand years or even to a much earlier date. This, however, is purely conjectural; all we can say is that there is no positive trace of modernity in the work. The elephant-lore of our text is based on a genuine traditional knowledge which grew up among those whose business it was to deal with elephants, and that this tradition has persisted to modern times.
| Author | : Nīlakaṇṭhamūssat |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1931 |
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| Author | : André Wink |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 452 |
| Release | : 1990 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9789004102361 |
Download Al-Hind the Making of the Indo-Islamic World Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the second of a projected series of five volumes dealing with the expansion of Islam in "al-Hind," or South and Southeast Asia. It analyses the conquest of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries, the migration of Muslim groups into the subcontinent, and maritime developments in the same period.
| Author | : Gregory M. Reichberg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 755 |
| Release | : 2014-05-26 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 0521450381 |
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This volume offers a comprehensive selection of texts from the world's major religions on the ethical dimensions of war and armed conflict. Despite a considerable rise of interest in Eastern and Western religious teachings on issues of war and peace, the principal texts in which these teachings are expounded have in most cases remained inaccessible to all but a handful of specialists. This is especially true of traditions such as Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism, where the key authoritative treatments are often embedded in texts (e.g., Koranic jurisprudence, religious epics, or Talmudic commentary) that are not overtly about matters pertaining to the ethics of war, thus requiring a difficult process of interpretation and selection, and for which English translations frequently do not exist. Topical and timely for today's debates in the public arena and essential reading for students of religious ethics and the relationship between religion and politics, this book aims to give the reader a proper knowledge of the textual traditions that inform the key struggles over issues of peace and security, identity and land.
| Author | : Jonathan Kingdon |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 1988-12-29 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 9780226437224 |
Download East African Mammals Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Acclaimed and coveted by both naturalists and lovers of wildlife illustration, Jonathan Kingdon's seven-volume East African Mammals has become a classic of modern natural history. This paperback edition makes Kingdon's remarkable artistic and scientific achievement—his hundreds of drawings and perceptive study of all the mammals in East Africa's species-rich fauna—available to the wide audience it deserves. Volume IIIB celebrates the large mammals for which the African plains are so famous—elephants, rhinos, zebras, bushpigs, and warthogs, hippopotamuses, camels, chevrotains, giraffes. Kingdon brings his artist's eye to such puzzles as the zebra's stripes and the giraffe's spots, making original observations throughout the seven volumes about the evolutionary and functional significance of coat color, facial expressions, and curious forms and markings. The beauty of the animals, so vivid in these incomparable drawings, is made more poignant by the acknowledgment of their increasingly endangered status. Kingdon discusses the inevitable problems posed by large mammal communities in a developing continent and includes numerous maps indicating their declining ranges and populations.
| Author | : Jos J. L. Gommans |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : Artillery |
| ISBN | : 0415239893 |
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This work offers a survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.
| Author | : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1236 |
| Release | : 1925 |
| Genre | : Africa |
| ISBN | : |
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| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 285 |
| Release | : |
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| ISBN | : 1134552769 |
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| Author | : Library of the Asiatic Society of Bombay and the Central Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 1266 |
| Release | : 1922 |
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Download General Catalogue of the Library of the Bombay Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society: Subjects Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
| Author | : Binoy Kumar Behera |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2019-01-24 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1108583229 |
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The Asian elephant is an endangered species due to its relentless poaching mainly for ivory. However, unlike the African elephant whose both males and females are tusk bearers, in Asian elephants only males bear tusk. This has resulted in their selective killing and has not only led to an alarming fall in their number but impacted the sex-ratio. This book critically examines this problem and addresses the issue of human-elephant conflict. It studies the four elephant zones of the country with specific focus on Odisha, which is home to a large population of elephants in the central Indian zone. It also ponders on the possibility of the existence of a well-developed network supporting organized poaching and armed militancy, which applies to the central African countries as well.
