D D Kosambi
Biographic Data
| ID | 289646 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D D Kosambi |
| GIVEN NAMES | D D |
| FAMILY NAME | Kosambi |
| SIGNATURE | KOSAMBI D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fergusson College Poona, India |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1944 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
Avimāraka (Love's Enchanted World)
The culture and civilisation of ancient India in historical outline
"The Vedic "Five Tribes
Ancient India. A History of Its Culture and Civilization
The Autochthonous Element in the Mahābhārata
Combined methods in Indology
The Beginning of the Iron Age in India
The problem here discussed is: When was iron first produced from natural ores in India, in quantity sufficient to be important in the means of production? This means primarily for agriculture. Iron was the cheap metal which made agriculture possible in monsoon jungles; bronze had always been reserved for the few, so that the bronze age was normally one of warriors who pastured cattle. Exceptions were the great river valleys passing through desert…
Prehistoric Rock Engravings Near Poona
Staple 'Grains' in the Western Deccan
Megaliths in the Poona District
Pierced Microliths from the Deccan Plateau
(Social and Economic Aspects of the Bhagavad Gītā*)
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE BHAGAVAD G T *) BY D. D. KOSAMBI The Bha ,gavad-G7td, "Song of the Blessed One", forms part of the great Indian epic Mahtibhdrata i). Its 1 8 adlgdya chapters contain the report by Saiijaya of a dialogue between the Pandava hero Arjuna and his Yadu Charioteer the eighth incarnation of Visnu. The actual fighting is about to begin when Arjuna feels revulsion at the leading part which he must play in the impending …
Social and Economic Aspects of the Bhagavad Gita
At the Crossroads Mother Goddess Cult-Sites in Ancient India
The Trade Routes. If the prehistoric tracks ran as outlined above, it would be logical to find some of them developing into trade-routes and also into modern roads except where settlements moved down into the valley, by the riverside, as land-clearing progressed. Such movement makes definitive proof rather difficult. But there is enough in common between old tracks and new, particularly the passes, to show the development. The great Buddhist cave…
At the Crossroads: Mother Goddess Cult-Sites in Ancient India
1. The Problem. The chain of incident and action in Śūdraka's deservedly popular drama Mṛcchakaṭika commences with a peculiar ritual on a dark night. The hero Cārudatta, an impoverished but virtuous brahmin caravan merchant, has just finished his evening prayers. At the beginning of the first act, he asks his clownish brahmin friend Maitreya to help in the consummation: kṛto mayā gṛhadevatābhyo baliḥ; gaccha, tvam api catuṣpathe mātṛbhyo balim up…
China's Communes
That an event of profound historical importance has taken place in China is clear from the violent outburst of hostile comment and the stunned silence of those who should have evaluated these new happenings. The Chinese themselves are too busy with the exhilarating work of a second revolutionary advance within ten years; the powerful swimmer engaged in breasting the flood need not pause to chart the river for others. So, let us analyze the situat…
Indian Feudal Trade Charters
Notes on the Kandahar Edict of Asoka
MISCELLANEA NOTES ON THE KANDAHAR EDICT OF ASOKA The publication of a bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription of Asoka from Shar-i-Kuna near Kandahar in Afghanistan* may add a degree of certainty to what have been reasonable conjectures. The editors have done their work so well that one need comment only upon certain implications which did not concern or interest them. i. G. L. Della Vida notes on p. 29 of the brochure, that the Aramaic is not a tran…
The Text of the Arthaśāstra
The Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa Compiled by Vidyākara
Notes on the Revolution in China
No honest and reasonably alert visitor to China can fail to be impressed by the remarkable changes in the country and the people. The material advances shown by the new system since so recent a year as 1952 leap to the eye. New factories, mines, oilfields, steel works, dams, cooperatives, roads, buses, hospitals, schools, cultural palaces, theaters, have sprouted almost overnight. The language is being reformed. The rise in the general standard o…
The Basis of Ancient Indian History (II)
The Basis of Ancient Indian History (I)
6. RISE AND DECLINE OF TRADE. Land tenure cannot be expected to show greater uniformity than contemporary society with its varied concepts of property and right within each component caste, subcaste, guild. The royal sita lands of Arthasastra were economic foundation of Mauryan state power; Manusmrti does not know word. However, difference is partly regional. The Chinese travellers mention sitd domains in passing (Legge 42-43; Giles 20-21; Beal I…
Notes on the Class Structure of India
A hundred years ago, Karl Marx was a regular correspondent of the New York Tribune, one of the direct ancestors of today's New York Herald-Tribune. Among his communications was one, published on August 8, 1853, entitled "The Future Results of British Rule in India." Though he knew little of India's past, and though some of his predictions for the future have not been borne out by subsequent events, Marx nevertheless had a remarkably clear insight…
An Introduction to the Study of Indian History
The culture and civilisation of ancient India in historical outline
The Basis of Ancient Indian History (I)
6. RISE AND DECLINE OF TRADE. Land tenure cannot be expected to show greater uniformity than contemporary society with its varied concepts of property and right within each component caste, subcaste, guild. The royal sita lands of Arthasastra were economic foundation of Mauryan state power; Manusmrti does not know word. However, difference is partly regional. The Chinese travellers mention sitd domains in passing (Legge 42-43; Giles 20-21; Beal I…
The Beginning of the Iron Age in India
The problem here discussed is: When was iron first produced from natural ores in India, in quantity sufficient to be important in the means of production? This means primarily for agriculture. Iron was the cheap metal which made agriculture possible in monsoon jungles; bronze had always been reserved for the few, so that the bronze age was normally one of warriors who pastured cattle. Exceptions were the great river valleys passing through desert…
Indian Feudal Trade Charters
The Autochthonous Element in the Mahābhārata
Combined methods in Indology
Staple 'Grains' in the Western Deccan
The Basis of Ancient Indian History (II)
Caste and Class in India
The Bourgeoisie Comes of Age in India
The Parvasaṁgraha of the Mahābhārata
The Epigrams Attributed to Bhartṛhari… Collected and Critically Edited
The Epigrams Attributed to Bhartrhari
Imperialism and Peace
We do not have, today, the peace yearned for by millions all over the world. In Korea we see a full-scale modem war waged relentlessly against an entire nation whose one wish, for centuries, has been unity, with independence from foreign aggression. In Malaya and Indo-China two decaying imperialist powers struggle desperately to maintain the privileges of an outworn colonial system over the opposition of people who will no longer be denied freedo…
Parvasaṁgraha Figures for the Bhīṣmaparvan of the Mahābhārata
Science and Freedom
In 1949, I saw that American scientists and intellectuals were greatly worried about the question of scientific freedom, meaning thereby freedom for the scientist to do what he liked while being paid by Big Business, war departments, or universities whose funds tended more and more to come from one or the other source. These gentlemen, living in a society where he who pays the piper insists upon calling the tune, did not seem to realize that scie…
Brahmin Clans
Notes on the Class Structure of India
A hundred years ago, Karl Marx was a regular correspondent of the New York Tribune, one of the direct ancestors of today's New York Herald-Tribune. Among his communications was one, published on August 8, 1853, entitled "The Future Results of British Rule in India." Though he knew little of India's past, and though some of his predictions for the future have not been borne out by subsequent events, Marx nevertheless had a remarkably clear insight…
The Basis of Ancient Indian History (II)
The Basis of Ancient Indian History (I)
6. RISE AND DECLINE OF TRADE. Land tenure cannot be expected to show greater uniformity than contemporary society with its varied concepts of property and right within each component caste, subcaste, guild. The royal sita lands of Arthasastra were economic foundation of Mauryan state power; Manusmrti does not know word. However, difference is partly regional. The Chinese travellers mention sitd domains in passing (Legge 42-43; Giles 20-21; Beal I…
Notes on the Revolution in China
No honest and reasonably alert visitor to China can fail to be impressed by the remarkable changes in the country and the people. The material advances shown by the new system since so recent a year as 1952 leap to the eye. New factories, mines, oilfields, steel works, dams, cooperatives, roads, buses, hospitals, schools, cultural palaces, theaters, have sprouted almost overnight. The language is being reformed. The rise in the general standard o…
The Text of the Arthaśāstra
The Subhāṣitaratnakoṣa Compiled by Vidyākara
China's Communes
That an event of profound historical importance has taken place in China is clear from the violent outburst of hostile comment and the stunned silence of those who should have evaluated these new happenings. The Chinese themselves are too busy with the exhilarating work of a second revolutionary advance within ten years; the powerful swimmer engaged in breasting the flood need not pause to chart the river for others. So, let us analyze the situat…
Indian Feudal Trade Charters
Notes on the Kandahar Edict of Asoka
MISCELLANEA NOTES ON THE KANDAHAR EDICT OF ASOKA The publication of a bilingual Greek-Aramaic inscription of Asoka from Shar-i-Kuna near Kandahar in Afghanistan* may add a degree of certainty to what have been reasonable conjectures. The editors have done their work so well that one need comment only upon certain implications which did not concern or interest them. i. G. L. Della Vida notes on p. 29 of the brochure, that the Aramaic is not a tran…
At the Crossroads Mother Goddess Cult-Sites in Ancient India
The Trade Routes. If the prehistoric tracks ran as outlined above, it would be logical to find some of them developing into trade-routes and also into modern roads except where settlements moved down into the valley, by the riverside, as land-clearing progressed. Such movement makes definitive proof rather difficult. But there is enough in common between old tracks and new, particularly the passes, to show the development. The great Buddhist cave…
At the Crossroads: Mother Goddess Cult-Sites in Ancient India
1. The Problem. The chain of incident and action in Śūdraka's deservedly popular drama Mṛcchakaṭika commences with a peculiar ritual on a dark night. The hero Cārudatta, an impoverished but virtuous brahmin caravan merchant, has just finished his evening prayers. At the beginning of the first act, he asks his clownish brahmin friend Maitreya to help in the consummation: kṛto mayā gṛhadevatābhyo baliḥ; gaccha, tvam api catuṣpathe mātṛbhyo balim up…
(Social and Economic Aspects of the Bhagavad Gītā*)
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF THE BHAGAVAD G T *) BY D. D. KOSAMBI The Bha ,gavad-G7td, "Song of the Blessed One", forms part of the great Indian epic Mahtibhdrata i). Its 1 8 adlgdya chapters contain the report by Saiijaya of a dialogue between the Pandava hero Arjuna and his Yadu Charioteer the eighth incarnation of Visnu. The actual fighting is about to begin when Arjuna feels revulsion at the leading part which he must play in the impending …
Social and Economic Aspects of the Bhagavad Gita
Megaliths in the Poona District
Pierced Microliths from the Deccan Plateau
Combined methods in Indology
History (24 works) · Ancient history (12 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (12 works) · Archaeology (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Geography (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · China (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works)