Essay name: Ethical and Spiritual thought of ancient India
Author:
Kaberi Sarkar
Affiliation: University of Calcutta / Department of Sanskrit
This essay studies the Ethical and Spiritual thought of ancient India as revealed in the Vedas, Puranas and Tantras. This work explores the discussion of God in Puuranic, Tantric, and Vedic hymns, portraying God as the creator, protector, and destroyer of the universe, and sometimes as the giver of ultimate salvation (moksha).
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jammed with philosophical thoughts on the other. To make the
flow of the gradual development of stotra literature clear
and distinct, as an analysis of the pictures of feelings,
reflected in this literature, and of the wordy image of the
soul is necessary, a discussion of the imageries of abstruse
philosophical thoughts dealt out in the stotras is likewise
necessary.
