H. G. Narahari

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Aryan Culture

The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 28 · No. 1

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Vedic Antecedents of the Epic Satarirasvarga

This article explores the Vedic roots of the epic motif of bodily ascent to heaven (śarīrasvarga). Early Vedic hymns and Brāhmaṇa texts generally describe the soul departing from the body at death,…

March - 1952Vol. 28 · No. 1pp. 87–90

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 24 · No. 4

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

The Mārutamaṇḍana of Vanamālī Miśra

By H. G. Narahari

The Marutamaṇḍana is a polemical treatise by Vanamālī Miśra, a pupil of Bhāṭṭoji Dīkṣita and an important scholar of the Dvaita (dualistic) school of Vedānta. This article introduces the author,…

December - 1948Vol. 24 · No. 4pp. 323–324

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 21 · No. 2

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

The Nirukta and the Theory of Transmigration

By H. G. Narahari

This article assesses Yāska’s Nirukta as a source for early Indian theories of transmigration. The author explains Yāska’s doctrine of the five fires: faith ascends to the moon, descends as rain,…

June - 1945Vol. 21 · No. 2pp. 118–123

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 19 · No. 2

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

A New Reference to the Gunapataka

By H. G. Narahari

Mr. P. K. Gode first drew scholars’ attention to the lost Sanskrit treatise called the Gunapātaka and, using five references, suggested it predates A.D. 1200. Later, V. Raghavan discovered additional…

June - 1943Vol. 19 · No. 2pp. 187

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Vol. 18 · No. 2

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The Indian Historical Quarterly

Designation of Hell in the R̥gveda and the Meaning of the word “Asat”

By H. G. Narahari

Responding to a recent article by Norman Brown that proposed Asat as the R̥gvedic term for hell, this paper investigates the meanings of the word Asat in Vedic literature. Brown suggested that Asat…

June - 1942Vol. 18 · No. 2pp. 158–166

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Articles

Vedic Antecedents of the Epic Satarirasvarga

The Mārutamaṇḍana of Vanamālī Miśra

The Nirukta and the Theory of Transmigration

A New Reference to the Gunapataka

Designation of Hell in the R̥gveda and the Meaning of the word “Asat”

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