Mumbai Footpaths: Paths of Courage, Journeys of Hope

HARSHA V. DEHEJIA

Vira Books

This inquiry is an undertaking to demonstrate that aesthetic experience in the classical Indian tradition, on its own merit, without being subordinated to rituals and practices commonly held under the rubric of religion, is capable of providing a transcendent experience to a prepared aesthete. Dr. Dehejia examines the dynamics of two aesthetics processes, that stemming from aesthetic emotion or rasa and from aesthetic form or rupa, and cogently underpins them within the advaitic epistemology of Kasmir Saivism. The Advaita of Art, Dr. Dehejia argues, is a joyous celebration of affirmation and assertion and not negation.

The Advaita of Art

Kapila Vatsyayan

Motilal Banarsidass

In Parvatidarpana Harsha V. Dehejia exposits the basic tenets of Kasmir Saivism through the celebrated marriage of Siva and Parvati and the image of the Ardhanarisvara. Enjoyment of the mythic marriage and the image leads to a greater understanding of Kashmir Saivism, and the epistemology of this philosophical system in turn leads the aesthete to a greater celebration of the arts inspired by this mythic event. Image leads to the idea and the idea in turn leads one back to the image creating a rich aesthetic experience.

Parvatidarpana: An Exposition of Kashmir Saivism through the images of Siva and Parvati

Parvatidarpana: An Exposition of Kashmir Saivism through the Images of Siva and Parvati (Hardcover)In Parvatidarpana Harsha V. Dehejia exposits the basic tenets of Kasmir Saivism through the celebrated marriage of Siva and Parvati and the image of the Ardhanarisvara. Enjoyment of the mythic marriage and the image leads to a greater understanding of Kashmir Saivism, and the epistemology of this philosophical system in turn leads the aesthete to a greater celebration of the arts inspired by this mythic event. Image leads to the idea and the idea in turn leads one back to the image creating a rich aesthetic experience.

India is a civilisation of many images a culture of many visual feasts a tradition where th visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied in our kathas and gathas our songs and stories, where our temples are not only places of worship but equally a gallery of beautiful forms and figures where myth is as important as doctrine, where ancient memories are full of cherished narratives where mythic beings are real in many different ways and we enrich our lives by festivals which celebrate events from the lives of our mythic gods and goddesses and where knowledge is gained as much from itinerant performers as it is from learned discourses and where when the wind blows thorugh the Pipal tree is as if we hear the hymns of the Vedas.

Leaves of a Pipal Tree Aesthetic Reflections on Some Hindu Myths and Symbols

Literature & Fiction

Mythology & Folk Tales

Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta is a commentary on Narsinh Mehta s love songs. Narsinh (1408-65), a Vaishnava bhakti poet of medieval India, is considered as the adi-kavi of Gujarat. He is also regarded as a shringara kavi, a poet of romance. The quintessence of his bhakti is prem and his prem has inherent bhakti, and therefore his poetry is regarded as shringara bhakti kavya. Essentially shringara is the romantic celebration of the other, and when Narsinh's other is none other than Krishna, his shringara kavya becomes Krishna bhakti, where Krishna is both divine and human, at the same time. Singing for Krishna, Narsinh celebrates his swami through amorous verses and divine surrender like Jayadeva. He sat in a temple and relentlessly sang for his Lord, living through absolute poverty. Nothing made him more jovial than singing the glory of his Krishna. The only man for Narsinh is Krishna, and for the latter Narsinh is a woman at heart. Narsinh, through his songs, brings in the cue of all romantic feelings and moments, recreates the idyllic Vrindavana in one s mind, and he returns that Vrindavana a Vaikuntha with the footfalls of his Krishna. Through this commentary, the author Harsha V. Dehejia introduces one to the fullness of Narsinh s poems, thereby making one known to Narsinh in and out.

Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta

Vijay Sharma

D.K. Printworld

Stree Ek Kavya (Woman as Poem)

Raj Publication

The "romantic heroine in the Indian tradition is celebrated in prose, poetry, painting, dance and music. This volume examines these various aspects of her romantic emotion, its depiction in the paintings of the Rajput courts and other schools of art, and above all, investigates the central position she occupies in the Vaishnava tradition. Each scholar contributes an essay with appropriate images from institutional and private collections.

A Celebration of Love

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Lustre/Roli Books

The book takes us on a journey of the loves of Krishna, his lilas, kridas, his madhurya and above all the raas lila. But Krishna is not only for the royalty and nobility, he belongs to the people, the potter and the puppeteer, the bride and the mother, for he is celebrated at every village fair and town. Equally the modern artist does not remain untouched by the magic of Krishna and depecits him on his palette. And as the journey ends we are privy to some of the most glorious moments of five magnificient centuries of Krishna paintings.

A Festival of Krishna (with DVD)

Religious

Roli Books Parul: A Love Story [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2012] Harsha V. Dehejia

ROLI-BOOKS

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Mumbai Footpaths: Paths of Courage, Journeys of Hope

The Advaita of Art

Parvatidarpana: An Exposition of Kashmir Saivism through the images of Siva and Parvati

Parvatidarpana: An Exposition of Kashmir Saivism through the images of Siva and Parvati

Leaves of a Pipal Tree Aesthetic Reflections on Some Hindu Myths and Symbols

Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta

Stree Ek Kavya (Woman as Poem)

A Celebration of Love

A Festival of Krishna (with DVD)

Roli Books Parul: A Love Story [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2012] Harsha V. Dehejia