Hinduism: The Essential Readings
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 31 March 2025
- ISBN 9780190922443
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 210x140 mm
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Hinduism: The Essential Readings is a compact but comprehensive collection of readings spanning the entire history of Hinduism, including both classic texts and non-traditional voices. No reader on the market will have the chronological, topical, and authorial breadth of this volume.
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Hinduism: The Essential Readings stands out as the most comprehensive anthology of Hindu writings thus far. This all-encompassing reader divides into ten chapters, each covering its own genre of Hindu writings. Each chapter begins with an introduction that will define key concepts found in the passages, followed by its chronological readings, and end with a set of discussion questions to connect the chapter's content to common themes and help students point to the pivotal development of ideas across time.
[Hinduism: The Essential Readings] clearly fills an important hole in the academic book market with its student-friendly size and wide historical scope. There is no single anthology at present that offers comprehensive readings from the Hindu tradition, from all historical periods". - Eric Steinschneider, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Religion, Ithaca College
Table of Contents:
Hinduism: The Primary Sources
Contents
1. Vedas
Rgveda 1.1.1 - Invocation of Agni
Rgveda 3.62.12 - Gayatri Mantra
Rgveda 7.59.12 - Maha-mrtyunjaya
Rgveda 10.90 - Purusa-sukta (Hymn of the Cosmic Man)
Rgveda 10.129 - Nasadiya Sukta
Rgveda 10.121 - Hiranyagarbha Prajapatya
Sri Sukta
2. Upanisads
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 3.6 and 3.8 - Gargi / Yajñavalkya
Brhadaranyaka Upanisad 4.4.1-7
Chandogya Upani?ad 4.4 - Satyak?ma J?b?la
Ch?ndogya Upanisad 6 - tat tvam asi
Taittiriya Upanisad 1.11 - Graduation Speech
Isa Upanisad
Katha Upanisad 1.1-1.29 - Dialogue with Death
Aruni Upanisad
3. Mahabharata
Game of Dice, Draupadi, & Bhima's oath
Yaksa Questions to Yudhisthira
Bhishma's Teachings on Dharma
Ekalavya
Duryodhana and Arjuna Approach Krishna for help
4. Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 2.11-2.30 - Immortality of the Self
Chapter 2.47-48, 3.3-35 - Action is better than Inaction
Chapter 6.4-6.32 - Dhyana - The Yoga of Royal Knowledge
Chapter 9 - Complete - Bhakti - The Yoga of Devotion
Chapter 11.9-11.55 - Cosmic form
Chapter 15 - Complete - The Yoga of the Supreme Spirit
Chapter 18.64-18.73 - The Final Teaching
5. Ramayana
Opening section - Description of Rama
Rama and Sita's wedding
The golden deer
Hanuman's jump and meeting Sita
Battle with description of the Rakshasas
The Fire Ordeal
6. Dharmasatras
Caste - Manusmriti 1.87-91; 8.410-20; 9.149-57
Lifecycle Rites - Manusmriti 2.29-35; 3.1-4; 6.2-4; 6.94-6
Household Life - Manusmriti 3.55-9; 3.99-106; 5.58-63
Wandering Ascetic - Manusmriti 6.33-60
7. Siva Purana
The Lingam of Light - Chapter 7.1-33
Daksa and Sati Episode - Chapter 26.1-18; 29. 1-11; 29.51-64; 30. 1-8
Parvati Revealed to be Sati Reborn, A Dream Predicts Her Future - Chapter 8.45-56; 9.21-35
Ganesha's Birth, Parvati Angered By His Beheading, Shiva Gives Him New Life - Chapter 13.14-39; 17.4-11; 17.46-59
8. Devi Mahatmya
Frame Story 1.27-44
The Goddess slays Mahisa the Buffalo 2.1-34, 3.20-41
The Birth of Kali 7.1-14, 8.39-62
9. Visnu Purana
Narasimha Episode
The Four Yugas and the Kali Yuga
10. Bhagavata Purana
Churning of the Ocean 8.7.1-15 and 8.1-9
Krishna and Yashoda 10.8.32-45
Krishna Lifts the Mountain
11. Vedanta
Shankara on How to Enlighten a Pupil 1.1-6, 9-19
Ramanuja's Vedarthasamgraha (Selection)
Madhva's Mayavadahandana (Selection)
Jiva Gosvami's Tattvasandarbha 12-18
12. Samkhya
Samkhyakarika of Isvarakrsna (Selection)
13. Yoga
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Selection)
Hatha Yoga Pradipika Chapter 1 - Asanas
14. Tantra
Pancaratra: Manual for ritual - Daily duties of an adept (Chapter 40, vs. 1-29)
The Wedding of Siva and the Goddess in the Kulalikamnaya Verses 1-33
Kularnava Tantra (Selections)
The Aphorisms of Shiva (Selections)
Vijnanabhairava Verses 34-39, 46-55
15. Bhakti Poetry
Nayanmars (Selections)
Bhakti and passion - Tirupp?vai 22-30
Tiruvaymoli 5.2.1-11
Mahadeviyakka: Forbidden Love - 328// Love in Separation - 79// Love in Union -68
Allama Prabhu: Rejection of social structure - 213// Union - 972// Realization - 959
Kabir: Poems 4, 10, 30, 75, 84
Narasinha Mehta (Selections)
Ravidas: AG 29, 19, 3
Chaitanya (Selections)
Surdas: Themes of childhood and love - S9 NPS 733, S33 NPS 1094, S105 NPS 2522
Mirabai: Princess of the Rathores/ Mira's beautiful of her bhajans/Melting into God
Tulsidas Retells Rama and Sita's Wedding / Hanuman Chalisa
Tukaram's Story: Tuka's Story// Tuka the Transgressor// Against Pandits// Listen to Me// Power of the Name
Ramprasad Sen (Selections)
Kamalakanta Bhattacarya (Selections)
Ram Basu (Selections)
Manikkavacar: The Hundred Verses/ The Grinding Song
Namdev: Relinquish your Brahmanical pride
16. Modern Hinduism
Rammohun Roy: Anti-Sati Writings - Address to Lord William Bentinck
Dayananda Saraswati: Marriage and Niyoga
Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar: A Defense of Widow Marriage
Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa (Selections)
Swami Vivekananda (Response to Welcome and Address at Final Session)
Rabindranath Tagore (Gitanjali 19, 26, 30, 35, 72)
Mohandas K. Gandhi (Gospel of Selfless Action-Selections)
B.R. Ambedkar (A portion of Caste and Class and Sections X and XVII)
A Vindication of Caste by Mahatma Gandhi// Varna versus Caste (Appendix I)
A Reply to the Mahatma by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (Appendix II) - Section I, IX-XI
V.D. Savarkar: Hindutva (Selection)
Keshab Chunder Sen (Selection)
17. Contemporary Hinduism
Swaminarayan: Selections from Vachanamrut, Shikshapatri, and Pramukh Swami Maharaj
Sri Aurobindo (Selections)
Ramana Maharshi: Selections from The Eightfold Path of Yoga
Hira Bansode's "Slave// Arun Kamble's "Speech"// Waman Nimbalkar's "Caste"// Narayan Surve's "For I Am Brahma"
Daya Pawar's "We are not your monkeys"
Swami Prabhupada: Rama as a Child// The Beauty of Krishna// Sita's Parents Mourn Her Departure
Ammachi (Selections from Swami Amritaswarupananda's Biography of Ammachi)
Gudipati Venkata Chalam, Savitri: Pauranika Natikalu (Selection)
Anantanand Rambachan: Selection from The Advaita Worldview
Amar Chitra Katha (Selections)
