Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature
Sahajiyā Buddhists and Vaiṣṇavas, Nātha cult, Bāuls, Dharma cult, with Caryāpada and medieval Bengali texts.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Surendranath Dasgupta
- Extent
- 2,282 passages, 175,289 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · University of Calcutta 1946; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections by Gemini… · Public domain in India: every author died before 1966 (Shashibhusan Dasgupta †1964)
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 10 parts
- c2 Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature — 140 parts
- c3 Abbreviations — 5 parts
- c4 Preface — 18 parts
- c5 Introduction — 49 parts
- c6 Part I: The Buddhist Sahajiyā Cult and Literature — 5 parts
- c7 Chapter I: Growth of the Sahajiyā Cult and Literature — 4 parts
- c8 Chapter II: The General Philosophical Standpoint of the Caryā-padas — 82 parts
- c9 Chapter III: The General Religious Outlook of the Sahajiyās — 3 parts
- c10 Chapter IV: The Practices of the Sahajiyās and the State of Supreme Bliss (Mahā-Sukha) — 4 parts
- c11 Part II: The Mediaeval Sahajiyā Schools — 4 parts
- c12 Chapter V: The Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyā Cult — 2 parts
- c13 Chapter VI: A Non-Sectarian Approach to the Doctrines of the Sahajiyās — 2 parts
- c14 Chapter VII: The Bāuls of Bengal — 2 parts
- c15 Part III: The Nāth Cult — 4 parts
- c16 Chapter VIII: Legend and History — 3 parts
- c17 Chapter IX: The Religion of the Nātha Siddhas — 4 parts
- c18 Part IV: The Dharma Cult and Bengali Literature — 4 parts
- c19 Chapter X: General Nature of the Cult — 34 parts
- c20 Chapter XI: Speculations on the Conception of Dharma — 2 parts
- c21 Chapter XII — 39 parts
- c22 Chapter XIII: The Theory of the Paṇḍitas, Koṭālas, Āminis, etc. — 28 parts
- c23 Chapter XIV: Cosmogonical and Cosmological Theories in Old and Mediaeval Vernacular Literatures — 1 part
- c24 Appendices — 4 parts
- c25 Appendix (A): The Religious Tenets of the Non-Bengali Mediaeval Saints in Relation to the Earlier Bengali Sahajiyās — 6 parts
- c26 Appendix (B): General Informations about the Literature of the Nāth Cult — 48 parts
- c27 Appendix (C): An Account of the Prominent Figures in the Nāth Literature of Bengal — 5 parts
- c28 Appendix (D): General Informations about the Dharma Literature of Bengal — 37 parts
- c29 Appendix (E): Enigmatic Language of the Old and Mediaeval Poets — 63 parts
- c30 Index — 50 parts