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[edit] History of Vaishnavism

Possible sources:

  • Gavin Flood, An Introduction to Hinduism, p.103ff: neat diagram, decent overview
  • Benjamin Walker, Hindu World, entry on "Vaishnavism": good summary emphasizing unclear post-vedic/non-vedic origins, list of personalities, impressive bibliography (albeit dated).
  • SK Aiyangar, Early History of Vaishnavism in South India, Madras 1920
  • RG Bhandarkar, Vaishnavism, Saivism and Minor Religious Systems, Strassburg 1913
  • SK De, Early History of the Vaishnava Faith and Movement in Bengal from Sanskrit and Bengali Sources, Calcutta 1942
  • WS Deming, Ramdas and the Ramdasis, Calcutta 1928
  • J Gonda, Early Aspects of Vaishnavism, Utrecht 1957
  • AP Karmarkar, Mystic Teachings of the Haridasas of Karnataka, Dharwar 1939
  • GN Mallik, The Philosophy of the Vaishnava Religion, 1927
  • T Rajagopalachariar, Vaishnava Reformers of India, Madras 1909
  • TAG Rao, History of the Sri-Vaishnavas, Madras 1923
  • HC Raychaudhuri, Materials for the Study of the Early History of the Vaishnava Sect, Calcutta 1936
  • HCIP: material spread over several volumes:
  • v.II: DC Sircar, VM Apte, JN Banerjea, p.431-452
  • v.III: DC Sircar, JN Banerjea, p.419-430
  • v.IV: DC Sircar, JN Banerjea, p.311-314
  • v.V: DC Sircar, p.435-441

[edit] Vedic Literature

  • BR Modak, The Ancillary Literature of the Atharva-Veda. Excellent no-nonsense treatment of texts, good discussion of academic work, valuable cross-index to AV as appendix.
  • Albrecht Weber, The History of Indian Literature, (reprint), Honolulu, University Press of the Pacific 2002 ISBN 1-4102-0334-4. (tr. John Mann & Theodor Zachariae)

[edit] Religious History

  • JN Farquhar, An Outline of the Religious Literature of India, OUP, 1920. Unobtrusive Christian perspective, otherwise informative, good pointers to older academic literature.
  • Karl H Potter, (ed) Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies vols 1-9,11. The bibliography is in Vol 1.
  • Gavin Flood, (ed) The Blackwell Companion to Hinduism.

[edit] Indian Philosophy

S Radhakrishnan and CA Moore, (ed) A Sourcebook in Indian Philosophy. Good introductory essay.

[edit] Ayurveda

  • Dominik Wujastyk, The Roots of Ayurveda: rare combination, W is a medical researcher and Sanskrit scholar.
  • Kenneth G. Zysk, Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India: apparently, strong connections with Buddhism

[edit] Upanishads

This is a mess. Random lists all over the place, little sourcing.

  • Narayana upanishad: massive confusion. we have (any of them can be refered to as narayana or mahanarayana!)
  • narayana
  • mahanarayana
  • tripadvibhuti mahanarayana
  • narayana atharva sirsha
  • yajniki (maha)narayana
  • Bloomfield Concordance, Introduction, claims:
  • The Mahānārāyaṇa-Upaniṣad of the Atharva-Veda. Edited by Colonel George A. Jacob. Bombay Sanskrit Series, number xxxv. Bombay, 1888. The text is nearly identical with that of the tenth book of the Taittirīya-Āraṇyaka.

[edit] Indian Astronomy

  • David Pingree, History of Mathematical Astronomy in India, in Dictionary of Scientific Biography.
In Note 1, he says of "previous attempts to write the history of Indian astronomy":
  • "most notable"
  • SB Dikshita, Bharatiya Jyotihsastra, Poona 1896 (repr. 1931) in Marathi
  • "less informative and reliable"
  • Sudhakara Dvivedin, Ganakatarangini, Benares 1892 (repr. 1933)
  • George F Thibaut, Astronomie, Astrologie und Mathematik, Strasbourg 1899
  • "even less value"
  • George R Kaye, Hindu Astronomy, Calcutta 1924
  • SN Sen, Astronomy in A Concise History of Science in India, New Delhi 1971
  • Roger Billard, L'astronomie indienne, Paris 1971