Acting as a Way of Salvation PRODDU Santiniketan with emphasis that Visnu should

with emphasis that Visnu should be worshipped not by meditation but by doing pious acts

India has never known among its Sastras the study of history such as Greece and Rome cultivated or aS modern Europe understands it

Mother field that could lead to dissension

the category of time qua change being reduced to having merely empirical status

Nor will they be surprised at occasional inequalities of execution in a work representing efforts spread over numerous years

Acting as a Way of Salvation PRODDU Santiniketan with emphasis that Visnu should6th century Hindu theologian Rupa Gosvamin established a technique by which, in imitating significant figures in Krsna's dramatic world, a devotee might actually come to inhabit the world of the character. This book shows that the Hindu view of reality accepts such role playing, called Raganuga Bhakti Sadhana as a natural part of the human experience. The author explores Indian dramatic theory, Rupa's unique application of that theory to