Concordance of Conceptual Upanisadic Terms (Set of 5 Volumes)

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Preface In March 2002 1 took over as Director of CASS for a period of little more than a year and during that period I found that a huge number of reference cards are stored in two cupboards. On actual verification, I noticed that these are the extracted citations of the Project of Upanisadic concordance of Conceptual Terms. I could not get any information with regards to the actual plan of the work or the extent of literature covered, principles or methodology applied in extracting the citations and their arrangements including the absence of any clue as to which are the editions from which citations are taken. This was very much necessary since in a majority of cases the complete citations are not given which a reader may like to read or check. I was wondering as to what to do with this vast quantity of data, but without losing patience I started to see it anew as a fresh work and the present volumes are the outcome of that long cherished dream taking shape.

Introduction With the fall of the Satavahana dynatsy in the 3rd century A. D. the solidarity maintained by it in the Deccan broke and South India was again split up into many small principalities. It was again under Pulakesin II. that the Deccan came to be united and more particularly under his brother Kubja Vishnu Vardhana some kind of political unity was brought about in coastal Andhra. This Eastern Chalukyan dynasty also came to an end in the 12th century A.D and again a period of political disintegration followed. Later on, the suzerainty in the Deccan was divided among three dynasties of the south viz. the Yadavas of Deva- giri, the Hoyasala Ballalas of Dwarasamudra and the Kakatiyas of Warangal. The Kakatiyas of Warangal were famous rulers who ruled over the whole of Andara Desa between 12th and 13th centuries. Under the Kakatiyas the Andhra emerged out as a separate cultural unit. Andhras owe much to the Kakatiyas. particularly to Rudra Deva, Rudrama Devi, and Pratapa Rudra Deva under whom their cul- ture reached its zenith. But this great political unit was broken again by the Tughlaq invasions in 1323 and Kakatiya empire fell. The fall of the Kakatiyas, the Yadavas and Ballalas gave a shattering blow to the Deccan solidarity.