...The period of the ‘sixteen Mahajanapadas’ around the period of the Buddha is said to mark the first distinct historical phase of the political history of ancient India. By the time India's political history assumes a concrete shape, there is a variety of clearly defined political units in India...

... 1798–1846 encyclopædias selected Linnæus works corpus Mineral Kingdom motion movement as criterion for classification nature folk taxonomy hunter gatherers sun stars and planets totemism animal plant classification ancient India ancient China ancient Japan Buddhism Confucianism Taoism...

... of the Parry/Lord theory, writing in ancient India, how religious people read, and how religious people compose. composition display literary works beginnings and ends of storage memorization and anthologies writing and composition Braille Morse code speech and composition Augustine of Hippo Oxford...

...Many races and tribes intermingled in early India. A significant attribute of ancient Indian culture has been the commingling of cultural elements from the north and south, and from the east and west. Ancient India also saw the birth of Brahmanism or Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism, but all...

.... Andrea Dworkin hates pornography for demeaning women. Feminists Carl Jung and Gloria Steinem are even against flirting. But do they believe in love? Sontag concedes a social redeeming value for porn. In ancient India, the Kama Sutra and temple carvings taught sex to newly married couples...

... zoomorphism in ancient India, first by providing an overview of the relatively straightforward texts of anthropomorphism and the more challenging texts of zoomorphism. It looks at animal imagery in Sanskrit literature and the mythological cluster about talking animals and humans in the Ramayana...

...Aśokan pillar with a single-lion capital at Lauriyā-Nandangarh This chapter discusses the sources of information for the study Aśoka Maurya's reign in ancient India from 274 to 232 BC. It suggests that the most important religious source about the Mauryas is Buddhist literature; while secular...

... of ancient India. This book is not only about whether only a limited number of areas were the foci of major power centres throughout the course of ancient Indian history. It also explores how many geographical orbits can be traced and how they have defined the geographical parameters of interaction between...

... pays the bill? About two thousand years ago, physicians in ancient India could find answers to these questions in the then new, and now classic ayurvedic textbooks. Held in great respect, and used for ayurvedic training even today, the early ayurvedic treatises offer many guidelines on good medical...

... a primordial past free of later alien intruders. This chapter also reviews considerable linguistic and archaeological data that seriously question the politically motivated mythologized vision of ancient India. arya carried only connotations of status and culture in Sanskrit India archaeology Indo Aryan...

...This chapter details the life and career of Sir Harold Bailey. It also describes the contents of his library. Bailey joined the Ancient India and Iran Trust in order to secure a permanent home for his books, where they would serve no longer only himself as they had done in Southacre and in Queens...

... century CE, this tale is about the encounter between Muladeva, the most famous thief and trickster in ancient India, and his wife. All of the members of Muladeva’s family are tricksters. This story is framed by stories about children who ask riddles. Clever wife in Indian mythology Folktale motifs...

...This chapter examines the religious law on marriage—and, more broadly, sexual activity—in ancient India. It considers how the authors of the religious texts justified their authority and the extent to which that authority was actually recognized and law actually enforced. It discusses...

...This chapter examines addiction (sakti) in Hinduism and its renunciation in ancient India. It discusses the corpus of scientific texts known as the shastras which focus on how ancient India addressed the subject of addiction for householders, rather than...

... in a marriage, committing adultery, using drugs, or living as or with a courtesan. This chapter examines what the Kamasutra says about class and caste, as well as the man-about-town. It also looks at the intersection between sex and ancient India in the Kamasutra. Kamasutra...

... and from ancient India, in which men or women were beheaded, doubled, split in half, or reversed in gender. It also compares the myths of the shadow Sitai and the shadow Helen of Troy, the seductions of Ahalya and Alcmena, and the gender-shifting of Ila and Teiresias. The book review appeared in the Fall...

...This book explores how the political history of ancient India has transpired in various geographical orbits, the definition of which has long bothered scholars. Contrary to widely held assumptions, there was no fixed boundary line or ‘divide’. The Oxus-Indus orbit is the most popular and well...