http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4162 2026-03-14T00:33:23Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4807 Title: Contents 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4804 Title: Nature of Historical Thinking and Aitihya Problem of the Construction of Significance Authors: Singh, Navjot Abstract: Broadly speaking, the paradigm of 'aitihya' is anchored in the nature and structure of narrative just as the paradigm of modem history is embedded in the autonomy of evidence. Yet, the spectrum varying from evidence-hunting to significance-directed-narration is so wide today that the contentious enterprises of history and of itihasa have arbitrarily come to be encompassed together into this. In vernacular circuits, ' history' continues to be pragmatically translated as 'itihasa', unmindful of the theoretical discord between the two that brews underneath. Description: 1-28 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4801 Title: Rta,.Dharma, and Sanatana Dharma in Indian Culture: A Critical Appraisal Authors: Nayak, G.C. Abstract: Sanatana dharma literally means eternal law, principle, or norm. But in order to understand the concept of Saniitana dharma, as it is used in our cultural heritage, it is important that we first have a working knowledge of what dharma stands for. The word dharma is not easily translated into the English language. Dharma has been used in different contexts to means different things, but it is usually understood as that principle or law which sustains, supports or maintains (dhiiralJaY individuals as well as the social order, and when applied beyond the context of society to a broader universal context, it would mean that law which sustains or maintains the world as a whole, the universe itself. Description: 29-41 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z http://localhost:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/4798 Title: Conceptual Bases of Vedic Technology Authors: Chaturvedi, Prem Sagar Abstract: It is now well-nigh affirmed that there is no dearth of creative skills and technological actions in the Vedic literature. A number of technologies relating to wood, leather, basketry, textile, lithic, ceramic and others were being practiced by the Vedic-Aryans quite deftly and with a high degree of workmanship. Description: 43-51 2003-12-01T00:00:00Z