VOL. 2

VEDIC, BUDDHIST AND JAIN TRADITIONS

Edited  by SAMPAT NARAYANAN

Contents

• Foreword (Kapila Vatsyayan)  

• Introduction (Sampat Narayanan)   

1. PaØcaMahËbhÍtas : Origin and Myths in Vedic Literature (S.K. Lal)  

2. PaØcËbhÍtattvaNIRÍPAÛam (N.S. Devanathachariar)  

3. bhÍtas in Vedic Rituals and Literature (T.N. Dharmadhikari)

4. Water Element : in Vedic Cosmogony  (Usha R. Bhise)

5. Gist of Cosmological Ideas in Vedas (Srinivas Madabhusi)

6. Cosmogony and  Cosmology in Major UPANIâADS (K.V. Mande)

7. The Five MahËbhÍtas : A Semantic Analysis (A.M. Ghatage)  

8. The MahËbhÍtas : The Buddhist Approach (Pratibha Pingle)

9. Concept of bhÍta in Early Buddhist Philosophy(MaheshTiwary)                     

10. The Concept of Great Elements in Jain Cosmology (Mangala Mirasdar)  

11. MahËbhÍtas in JYOTIâA áËSTRA (S.D. Sharma)

• List of Contributors

Volume 2 reinterprets the nature of primal Elements on the basis of different streams of Indian thought: ranging from their earliest expressions in the Rigveda to the philosophic schools of Vaisheshikas, Vedantins, Shaiva and the Agamas, besides the old-world treatises on astronomy, chemistry and metallurgy. Also highlighting the concept of Mahabhutas (Elements) in the Buddhist and Jain cosmologies, the volume unfolds the very complex and subtle aspects of the discourse on the nature of the matter, the fivefold organic matter, and the fivefold external objects. It also brings forth many convergences and divergences of viewpoints between and among the traditional streams of indigenous thought.

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