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 Volume I

PRELIMINARY

PERVASIVE TERMS - VYAPTI Vol-I

Edited by BETTINA BAUMER

2001 xxxiv+287 pp. line drawings, bibl. index, ISBN: 81-208-0584-4: Rs 650 (HB) Revised Edition.


The Present volume is the first attempt at exploring the 'essence' and blossoming of some fundamental concepts. These constitute the foundation of complex structures which emerge in diverse disciplines ranging from biology and medicine to mathematics and metaphysics, governing aesthetic theories and artistic expressions. Other terms such as LAKSANA and SILPA, indicate process and manifestation at the level of form.

This preliminary volume contains eight major articles on the following concept : Brahman (absolute), Purusa (man), Atman (essence of everything), Sarira (body), Prana (life breath), Bija (seed), Laksana( Sign) and Silpa (arts and crafts).

The contributors to this volume are Bettina Baumer, Prem Lata Sharma, H.N.Chakravarty, K.D.Tripathi and R.N.Misra.
 

BETINA BAUMER is Director of Research of Alice Boner Foundation in Varanasi. Her special fields of research are Kashmir Saivism and Silpa Sastra. She is the author of Upanishaden, Befreiung zum Sein (in German) and the editor of Rupa Pratirupa, and Alice Boner Commemoration Volume and has several other works to her credit.

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