Bøger af Ravi Gupta

In India, the large majority of construction still happens with manual efforts that neither guarantees economy of construction, nor of its quality. With the boom in Indian economy, there is tremendous demand for development of infrastructure to meet the needs of growing economy. In fact, apart from the growing volume and size of infrastructure projects, the rising labour cost is considered one of the major factors forcing the industry to look for alternative approaches. The construction industry that had been traditionally conservative in accepting new technologies, is now increasingly adopting mechanized construction. The mechanized construction is aimed at to continue and complete a project at reasonable cost within agreed time schedule.

Formalized by the tenth century, the Bhagavata Purana has witnessed centuries of performance, interpretation, worship, and debate. This annotated translation and detailed analysis makes a central Hindu masterpiece accessible to English-speaking audiences and more meaningful to scholars of Hindu literature, philosophy, and religion.

The Bhagavata Purana is a versatile Hindu sacred text containing more than 14,000 Sanskrit verses. Finding its present form around the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian devotional traditions as well as schools of dance and drama, and continues to permeate popular Hindu art and ritual in both India and the diaspora.