Visvamitra
Book Details
Author(s)PROFESSOR SATYA PRAKASH SINGH
PublisherStandard Publishers
ISBN / ASIN8187471131
ISBN-139788187471134
Sales Rank7,600,611
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Language: English
Pages: 287
About the Book: Life and Vision of Vedic Seers is a series aiming at reconstruction lives and thought contents of prominent Vedic Seers so that they may emerge out in their individual capacities as treat contributors to the history human vision, ideation and understanding. The Series is intended to cover as many seers as possible. This is the first volume of the Series dealing with the life and attainments of Visvamitra, the seer of the sacred Gayatit Mantra. It retraces penetratively the contours of sadhana proceeding along which the great seer could get the vision of the Gayatir and predict prophetically enough the unparalleled longevity of the Indian culture and ethos under its aegis: Visvamitrasya raksati brahmedam bharatam janam.
About the Author: Born in the year 1934 near Varanasi, Prof. Satya Prakash Singh is a product of the Banaras Hindu Univesity as also a D. Lit. of the Aligarh Muslim University. Having served the Aligarh Muslim Univesity as a Lecturer, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, he retired as Chairman of the Department of Sanskrit in 1994. He has also served as Director of the Dharam Hinduja International Centre of Indic Research, Delhi for a period of four years. Presently he is a Senior Fellow of the Maharshi Sandipani Rastriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain as also Incharge of the Vedic Research Centre, New Delhi. By virtue of his merits as a scholar of repute he has been honoured by several awards such as the Ganganath Jha award and the Banabhatta Puraskara of the Sanskrit Academy, Uttar Pradesh, Rajaji Literary Award of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, Swami Pranavananda Best book of the Year in Psychology Award, Patna and the Vedic Scholar of Eminence award of Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain. His works have been translated extensively in several languages of India and abroad namely Malayalam
Pages: 287
About the Book: Life and Vision of Vedic Seers is a series aiming at reconstruction lives and thought contents of prominent Vedic Seers so that they may emerge out in their individual capacities as treat contributors to the history human vision, ideation and understanding. The Series is intended to cover as many seers as possible. This is the first volume of the Series dealing with the life and attainments of Visvamitra, the seer of the sacred Gayatit Mantra. It retraces penetratively the contours of sadhana proceeding along which the great seer could get the vision of the Gayatir and predict prophetically enough the unparalleled longevity of the Indian culture and ethos under its aegis: Visvamitrasya raksati brahmedam bharatam janam.
About the Author: Born in the year 1934 near Varanasi, Prof. Satya Prakash Singh is a product of the Banaras Hindu Univesity as also a D. Lit. of the Aligarh Muslim University. Having served the Aligarh Muslim Univesity as a Lecturer, Professor and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, he retired as Chairman of the Department of Sanskrit in 1994. He has also served as Director of the Dharam Hinduja International Centre of Indic Research, Delhi for a period of four years. Presently he is a Senior Fellow of the Maharshi Sandipani Rastriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain as also Incharge of the Vedic Research Centre, New Delhi. By virtue of his merits as a scholar of repute he has been honoured by several awards such as the Ganganath Jha award and the Banabhatta Puraskara of the Sanskrit Academy, Uttar Pradesh, Rajaji Literary Award of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay, Swami Pranavananda Best book of the Year in Psychology Award, Patna and the Vedic Scholar of Eminence award of Maharshi Sandipani Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, Ujjain. His works have been translated extensively in several languages of India and abroad namely Malayalam
