Creation and Existence in Indian Tradition
Contents: Preface. Introduction. I. English: 1. Dharma Karma and Yoga/Rama Nath Sharma. 2. How did everything begin: a note on skepticism from the Rgvedic perspective/Soma Basu. 3. Vaisesika theory of creation and existence/Shashiprabha Kumar. 4. Creation and existence in Srimadbhagavata Purana/Saroj Bhardwaj. 5. Creation a probable definition/Gautam Satapathy. 6. Creation a system: Asyavamiya Sukta/C.P. Trivedi. 7. An expression of Vedantic value of creation and existence in T.S. Eliots the wasteland/Jaba Kusum Singh. 8. Vedic view on creation/Veda Vrata Aalok. 9. What sustains India till today/Richa Sikari. 10. The creation of universe and its sustaining principles: in reference to the Satapatha Brahmana/Aparna Dhir. 11. Rao\'s the meaning of India : metaphysics of creation and existence/Medha Sachdev. 12. Creation and existence: the circle of being/Hem Lata Singh. 13. Man and his existence in view of Tagore and Kabir/Mamta Srivastava. 14. Creation and its relation with Music with special reference to Gitagovinda/Reena Sahay. 15. The concept of Hiranyagarbha in Rgveda/A.R. Tripathi. 16. Concept of existence in Tulasidasas Ramacaritamanasa/Asha Lata Pandey. 17. Existence of life on earth: a Vedic and modern scientific view/Bhu Dev Sharma.
Creation is a puzzle so is the existence of the created world. Human kind has been trying to unblock this riddle for thousands of years. At the 13th India conference of waves scholars explored the different facets of this puzzle with erudite precision. Answers to questions like how did life appear how did it develop and how is it sustained were intellectually and philosophically argued.
Rigvedic hymns like Purusa and Nasadiya present a glimpse of Vedic findings which are further expanded and elaborated in other Sanskrit literary and philosophical works like Puranas and Itihasa etc. Understanding the operation of the universe was essential and foremost to the ancient people and it remains so even to the modern day scientists and scholars of Sanskrit and philosophy.
This present volume the third publication of waves comprises twenty three selected papers written in English and Sanskrit on the theme Creation and existence in Indian traditions. Papers by well known scholars of Sanskrit studies such as Prof. Rama Nath Sharma , Dr. Soma Basu, Prof. Bhu Dev Sharma, Prof. Shashiprabha Kumar, Prof. Bhaskarnath Bhattacharya, Dr. Veda Vrata Aalok and Prof. Asha Rani Tripathi certainly amplify the value to this literary effort. Most of the papers in this volume focus on the various aspects of Indian insights on creation and existence of this universe. (jacket)
