Vakataka gupta age: circa 200-550Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Anant Sadashiv Altekar Many text on music dance and drama continued to be written in different parts of India until the 17th century. Between the 12th and the 16th century regional styles emerged. Medieval texts have been discovered in all parts. One amongst these is the Srihastamuktavali belonging to the eastern tradition. |
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... India by Narendra Prakash Jain at Shri Jainendra Press , A - 45 Naraina , Phase I , New Delhi 110 028 and published by Shantilal Jain for Motilal Banarsidass , Delhi 110 007 . ... ... ... PAGE 136 137 139 154 CHAPTER VII.
... India by Narendra Prakash Jain at Shri Jainendra Press , A - 45 Naraina , Phase I , New Delhi 110 028 and published by Shantilal Jain for Motilal Banarsidass , Delhi 110 007 . ... ... ... PAGE 136 137 139 154 CHAPTER VII.
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... CHAPTER VIII ... THE EXPANSION OF THE GUPTA EMPIRE 1. Ratna - gupta By DR . R. C. MAJUMDAR ... ... 2. Chandra - gupta II 3. Kumāra - gupta I 4. Skanda - gupta Internal Troubles CHAPTER IX THE IMPERIAL CRISIS By DR . R. C. MAJUMDAR I. 2 ...
... CHAPTER VIII ... THE EXPANSION OF THE GUPTA EMPIRE 1. Ratna - gupta By DR . R. C. MAJUMDAR ... ... 2. Chandra - gupta II 3. Kumāra - gupta I 4. Skanda - gupta Internal Troubles CHAPTER IX THE IMPERIAL CRISIS By DR . R. C. MAJUMDAR I. 2 ...
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Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Anant Sadashiv Altekar. CHAPTER XIII HISTORY OF CEYLON BY DR . S. PARANAVITANA , Ph . D. , Archaeological Commissioner , Ceylon Appendix - Note on the Chronology ... ... PAGE 251 ... 262 CHAPTER XIV THE ...
Ramesh Chandra Majumdar, Anant Sadashiv Altekar. CHAPTER XIII HISTORY OF CEYLON BY DR . S. PARANAVITANA , Ph . D. , Archaeological Commissioner , Ceylon Appendix - Note on the Chronology ... ... PAGE 251 ... 262 CHAPTER XIV THE ...
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... chapters on the same subject , illustrates the advance in our knowledge made in less than half a century . In the Hindu period , the immense mass of raw materials , in the form of inscriptions , coins , architectural remains and ...
... chapters on the same subject , illustrates the advance in our knowledge made in less than half a century . In the Hindu period , the immense mass of raw materials , in the form of inscriptions , coins , architectural remains and ...
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... 1908 after the first volumes of the Cambridge Modern History had come out and shown us the way . The plan was discussed in great detail and even lists of chapters drawn up on two occasions in collaboration with the late Rakhaldas iv.
... 1908 after the first volumes of the Cambridge Modern History had come out and shown us the way . The plan was discussed in great detail and even lists of chapters drawn up on two occasions in collaboration with the late Rakhaldas iv.
Contents
I | 363 |
Vedic Religion | 369 |
57 | 375 |
Buddhism | 382 |
Technical and Primary Education | 396 |
Bhāsa | 403 |
Technical Literature | 409 |
Astronomy | 418 |
Kosala Dakshina Kosala and Mekala | 86 |
CHAPTER V | 93 |
Narendrasena | 121 |
AppendixNote on the Chronology | 251 |
CHAPTER XIV | 265 |
Powers of the King | 273 |
10 | 285 |
Taxation | 291 |
The Coinage of the Republics | 298 |
Coinage in South India | 306 |
CHAPTER XVII | 334 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 342 |
FINE ARTS | 442 |
Secular Architecture | 460 |
xxiii | 475 |
CHAPTER VI | 486 |
Index | 491 |
AppendixThe Extent of the kingdom of Chandragupta_I | 493 |
ARCHAEOLOGICAL REMAINS OF THE GUPTA PERIOD | 496 |
134 | 503 |
Plates IXV | i |
Map of India | |
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Page 465 - ... the sky. From all these emanates a great joy in the surpassing radiance of the face of the world, in the physical nobility of men and women, in the strength and grace of animals and the loveliness and purity of birds and flowers; and woven into this fabric of material beauty we see the ordered pattern of the spiritual values of the universe.
Page 465 - On the hundred walls and pillars of these rock-carved temples a vast drama moves before our eyes, a drama played by princes and sages and heroes, by men and women of every condition, against a marvellously varied scene, among forests and gardens, in courts and cities, on wide plains and in deep jungles, while above the messengers from heaven move swiftly in the sky.
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