India and the West – Book by Hermann Goetz

This book presents a selection from the papers read at a seminar organized by the South Asia Institute, the Max Müeller Bhavan, and the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany, held at New Delhi in February 1982 as part of the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of the Max Müeller Bhavan, New Delhi. The seminar was dedicated to the memory of the well-known Indian Art historian Hermann Goetz. The papers cover a wide field of interests: a comparative study of the Indo-Aryan and Iranian-Aryan mythology; trade links in western India; legends of Krishna; descriptions of newly discovered rock drawings at Chilas, two Gandhāra sculptures, frescoes decorated at Lahore Fort; and Indian and Western philosophy, both ancient and modern. About the Author Joachim Deppert (b.1944), studied Western Music, Comparative Religion, Sanskrit, History of Indian Art, and Anthropology mainly in Heidelberg. He obtained a doctoral degree with a thesis about incest in Vedic mythology, after which he did a post-graduate research in Varanasi (BHU), and a field research in Kashmir. He specializes in the Vedas and their Indo-European roots, and in Kashmir Shaivism, particularly in Abhinavagupta’s Tantrāloka. He has been working as an assistant professor at the South Asia Institute, Heidelberg, and been the director of its New Delhi branch office from 1980-83.