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The Writing Revolution : Cuneiform to the Internet. by Gnanadesikan, Amalia E.

Table of Contents: “…Illustrations; Preface; 1 The First IT Revolution; 2 Cuneiform: Forgotten Legacy of a Forgotten People; 3 Egyptian Hieroglyphs and the Quest for Eternity; 4 Chinese: A Love of Paperwork; 5 Maya Glyphs: Calendars of Kings; 6 Linear B: The Clerks of Agamemnon; 7 Japanese: Three Scripts are Better than One; 8 Cherokee: Sequoyah Reverse-Engineers; 9 The Semitic Alphabet: Egypt to Manchuria in 3,400 Years; 10 The Empire of Sanskrit; 11 King Sejong's One-Man Renaissance; 12 Greek Serendipity; 13 The Age of Latin; 14 The Alphabet Meets the Machine; Appendix; Further Reading; Index.…”
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Kiss of the yoginī : "Tantric sex" in its South Asian contexts by White, David Gordon

Table of Contents: “…List of Illustrations; Preface; Note on Transliteration; Abbreviations of Titles of Sanskrit Works; 1. Tantra in Its South Asian Contexts; 2. …”
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Dance On.

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Religions of India. by Hopkins, Edward Washburn

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A student's handbook of Indian aesthetics by Gupta, Neerja A.

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The Early Upanisads : Annotated Text and Translation. by Olivelle, Patrick

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Roots of yoga

From Africa to Zen : an Invitation to World Philosophy. by Solomon, Robert C.

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The Buddhist goddess Marishiten : a study of the evolution and impact of her cult on the Japanese warrior by Hall, David A.

Table of Contents: “…Reflections on Mārīcī's Significance; Selected Bibliography; Indices and Character Glossaries; Chinese Index & Character Glossary; Japanese Index & Character Glossary; Sanskrit Index & Glossary; General Index; Index of Texts.…”
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The Indo-Aryan Languages. by McCann, Deirdre, Messenger, Jon C.

Table of Contents: “…5 Non-Indian scripts used for IA languages -- 5.1 Perso-Arabic scripts -- 5.2 Roman script -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Further reading -- 3.1 Nagari script as used for Sanskrit -- 3.2 The major scripts used for NIA languages -- 3.3 Early Brāhmī script (normalized forms from Aśokan and other early inscriptions, third century BC) -- 3.4 Kharoṣṭhī script (representative manuscript forms of the middle period, c. first century AD) -- 3.1 Example of script developments from Brāhmī to the modern scripts: the consonant la -- 4 Sanskrit -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Phonetics and phonology -- 2.1 Phonological system -- 2.2 Vowels -- 2.3 Consonants -- 2.4 Inventory and arrangement of sounds -- 2.5 Phonological rules -- 2.5.1 General -- 2.5.2 Consonants -- 2.5.3 Tone sandhi -- 2.5.4 Grammatically determined adjustments -- 3 Grammar -- 3.1 Verb system -- 3.1.1 Introduction -- 3.1.2 Endings -- 3.1.3 Tense forms -- 3.1.3.1 Present stems -- 3.1.3.2 Preterit classes -- 3.1.3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.1.3.2.2 Imperfect -- 3.1.3.2.3 Aorist -- 3.1.3.2.3a Sigmatic aorist -- 3.1.3.2.3b Root aorist -- 3.1.3.2.3c Thematic aorist -- 3.1.3.2.3d Reduplicated aorist -- 3.1.3.2.4 Perfect -- 3.1.3.3 Future -- 3.1.4 Non-indicative forms -- 3.1.4.1 Imperative -- 3.1.4.2 Optative and precative -- 3.1.4.3 Conditional -- 3.1.5 Nominal forms associated with the verb system -- 3.1.6 Derived verbs -- 3.1.6.1 Causatives -- 3.1.6.2 Desideratives -- 3.1.6.3 Intensives -- 3.1.6.4 Denominatives -- 3.1.7 Dialectal and historical differences -- 3.2 Nominal system -- 3.2.1 Introduction -- 3.2.2 Case system, stems, and endings -- 3.2.2.1 Case distinctions -- 3.2.2.2 Nominal stem alternation -- 3.2.2.3 Pronominal stem alternation -- 3.2.2.4 Distribution of endings -- 3.2.3 Number words -- 3.2.4 Derived nominals -- 3.2.4.1 Primary derivates from verbal bases -- 3.2.4.2 Derivates with taddhita affixes.…”
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At home with Master Musicians of Madras.

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Encyclopedia of Indian philosophies

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A Hindu critique of Buddhist epistemology : Kumarila on perception : the 'Determination of perception' chapter of Kumarilabhatta's Slokavarttika by Taber, John A., 1948-

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Asian medicine and globalization

Table of Contents: “…Irfan Habib and Dhruv Raina -- Health and medicine in British India and the Dutch Indies : a comparative study / Deepak Kumar -- Nationalism, transnationalism, and the politics of "traditional" Indian medicine for HIV/AIDS / Cecilia Van Hollen -- Mapping science and nation in China / Nancy N. Chen -- Sanskrit gynecologies in postmodernity : the commodization of Indian medicine in alternative medical and new-age discourses on women's health / Martha Ann Selby -- China reconstructs : cosmetic surgery and nationalism in the reform era / Susan Brownell.…”
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12th International Congress on Ericksonian Approaches to Psychotherapy.

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Epic inspiration.

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The Translingual Imagination. by Kellman, Steven G.

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Concise history of the language sciences : from the Sumerians to the cognitivists

Table of Contents: “…Formation of the Sanskrit Alphabet; 5. Descriptive Techniques and Terminology; 6. …”
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Saussure by Joseph, John E.

Table of Contents: “…The heritage of linguistics and semiology; Continuity and progress; The history of linguistics according to Saussure; The emergence of linguistic thought in Greece; The Christian Middle Ages; Renaissance and Enlightenment; The encounter with Sanskrit and the beginnings of comparativism; The vowels of primitive Indo-European; PART II. …”
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Figuring religions : comparing ideas, images, and activities

Table of Contents: “…Tweed -- "Epic" as an amnesiac metaphor : finding the word to compare ancient Greek and Sanskrit poems / Shubha Pathak -- Conceptions of the self in the Zhuangzi : conceptual metaphor analysis and comparative thought / Edward Slingerland -- Theorizing embodiment : conceptual metaphor theory and the comparative study of religion / James Egge -- Bathed in milk : metaphors of suckling and spiritual transmission in thirteenth-century Kabbalah / Ellen Haskell -- Metaphors and images of dress and nakedness : wrappings of embodied identity / Terhi Utriainen -- Poetry, ritual, and associated thought in early India and elsewhere / Laurie L. …”
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Adi Sankarcharya

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The Legend of King Asoka : a Study and Translation of the Asokavadana. by Strong, John S.

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The Bhagavad Gita

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Translators through History. by Delisle, Jean

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The inner kālacakratantra : a Buddhist tantric view of the individual by Wallace, Vesna A.

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The theology of Rāmānuja : realism and religion by Bartley, C. J.

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Dignaga's investigation of the percept : a philosophical legacy in India and Tibet

Table of Contents: “…Summary of the Essence: A Commentary on Investigation of the Percept (dMigs brtag 'grel pa snying po bsdus pa) -- Yeshes Thabkhas -- English-Tibetan-Sanskrit Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Invoking Lakshmi : the goddess of wealth in song and ceremony by Rhodes, Constantina Eleni, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…; On the Format of This Book; Sources: Sanskrit Texts and Popular Worship Manuals; PART ONE: The Divine Personalities of Laksmi; CHAPTER 1: The Awesome Power of Auspiciousness: Laksmi of the Vedic Traditions; The Primordial Lotus Goddess; The Goddess of Auspiciousness: Sri's Essence, Laksmi's Form; Alaksmi, the Inauspicious; CHAPTER 2: Living the Good Life: Laksmi of the Puranic Traditions; The Burgeoning World of the Puranas.…”
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American Indian and Indoeuropean Studies : Papers in Honor of Madison S. Beeler

Table of Contents: “…some observations based on an Old Norse text -- Extension versus convergence in the North Germanic verb -- Sanskrit bhÅ?gin- â€?wealthyâ€? â?? â€?village headman; fisherman, palanquin-bearerâ€? …”
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From sounds to structures : beyond the veil of Maya

Table of Contents: “…Pyatt -- Disharmony and decay : Itelmen vowel harmony in the 20th century / Jonathan David Bobaljik -- Deriving morphophonological (mis)applications / David Embick and Kobey Shwayder -- Distribution of falling tones in Mabaan / Irina Monich -- Vedic Sanskrit accentuation and readjustment rules / J. Joseph Perry and Bert Vaux -- Allomorphy of Italian determiners at the morphology-phonology interface / Roberto Petrosino -- Diachronic and synchronic aspects in the expression of temporal distance in the past : a process of grammaticalization in Italian compared with other Romance languages and English / Paola Beninc̀a, Mariachiara Berizzi, Laura Vanelli.…”
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A Grammar and Dictionary of Indus Kohistani : Dictionary. by Zoller, Claus Peter

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The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya : Three Hagiographies. by Manring, Rebecca J.

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Dharma, disorder, and the political in ancient India : the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata by Bowles, Adam

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Ties that bind : maternal imagery and discourse in Indian Buddhism / Maternal imagery and discourse in Indian Buddhism by Ohnuma, Reiko

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Breath of the gods : a journey to the origins of modern yoga

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Text, history, and philosophy : Abhidharma across Buddhist scholastic traditions

Table of Contents: “…Abhidharma and Indian thinking / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Abhidharmic elements in Gandhāran Mahāyāna Buddhism : groups of four and the abhedyaprasādas in the Bajaur Mahāyāna Sūtra / Andrea Schlosser and Ingo Strauch -- Interpretations of the terms ajjhattaṃ and bahiddhā : from the Pāli Nikāyas to the Abhidhamma / Tamara Ditrich -- Some remarks on the proofs of the "store mind" (Ālayavijñāna) and the development of the concept of Manas / Jowita Kramer -- Sanskrit Abhidharma literature of the Mahāvihāravāsins / Lance S. …”
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The Tibetan assimilation of Buddhism : conversion, contestation, and memory by Kapstein, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…The Prayer of Great Power -- Tibetan References -- Sanskrit References -- Chinese References -- Western Language References.…”
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Riddles of Belonging : India in Translation and Other Tales of Possession. by Merrill, Christi

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The Philosophical Foundations of Humboldt's Linguistic Doctrines. by Manchester, Martin L.

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Exploring the Yogasutra : Philosophy and Translation. by Raveh, Daniel

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