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Shanti Mandir Sri Guru Gita
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Classic Wisdom Reprint Shakti and Shâkta: Essays and Addresses on the Shâkta tantrashâstra
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Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo Kingdoms of Memory, Empires of Ink – The Veda and
Book SynopsisThe backbone of this book on books is a history of a most unusual concept of the book that developed in South Asia with reference to the Veda… By the 19th century, regional cultures of print showed an uneven and spatially discontinuous development across the Indian subcontinent. They variously fed on regional patterns of communication, configurations of power, patronage, and a new economic regime. Their development formed part of tremendous transformations in the structures of power, statecraft, authority, and communication that the subcontinent was going through while being gradually absorbed into the globalizing orbit of the emerging British Empire. The period witnessed a general shift of knowledge-production sites and relocation of distribution and text-circulation networks towards new urban centres…. This book tries to understand how the emerging regional cultures of print created conditions for, inspired, and accommodated differently configured projects of bringing out printed editions of Vedic texts while leaving distinct traces of their respective nature on their editorial principles, book format, typographic form, and publishing ideology.Table of Contents PrefaceIntroductionI. Objects, Spaces and PracticesI.1. The Book as an object circulating in spaceI.2. The Rebel Book of the VedaII. The Veda Before PrintII.1 The Beginnings: the travelling VedaII.2 The living libraries: the memorized VedaII.3 Performance and spectacle: The ritual VedaII.4 Scribes and scripture: the handwritten VedaII.5. The Veda commented uponII.5.1. The imperial commentaryII.6 The Veda in the empire of writingIII.The Coming of Print to Indian SubcontinentIII.1 The Missionary, the Government and the Commercial PrintersIII.2 Preachers, printers and PunditsIII.2.1The Jesuit printers of the western coastIII.2.2 German Danish Evangelists on the Coromandel CoastIII.2.3 The media revolution of Serampore 1800 –1837III.2.4 Later Missionary print culturesIII.3 The Empire in print and the Ethnographic StateIII.3.1 The Infernal machineIII.3.2 The Government Press and imperial typographyIII.3.3 Print, catalogues and native knowledgeIII.3.4 The ethnographic state in printIII.4 Indian Commercial Printing after 1835 (New Beginnings)IV.The Printed VedaIV.1 The lost, imagined and recovered VedaIV.2. The Philological VedaIV.3. The Imperial VedaIV.3.1. Max Muller and his patronsIV.4. The Printed Veda for Paṇḍitas and PunditsIV.5. The Veda printed in IndiaIV.5.1 The polluting inkIV.5.2 Whose is the printed VedaIV.5.3. The codex and the pothiV. The reading practicesV.1. The cultural concepts and practices of readingV.1.1 The svādhyāya and the brahma-yajñaV.1.2 brahmavidyā-dānaV.1.3 The vidhāna traditionV.2. The regional practices of reading the VedaV.2.1 Modus legendi: daśagranthaV.2.2 Modus legendi: the veda-pārāyaṇaV.2.3 Modus legendi: the trisandhāVI. Towards Social history of print cultures in colonial IndiaVI.1. Printing revolution and social changeVI.2 Publishing Indian Religions in PrintVI.2.1 Printing and Appropriation of the pastVI.3 The regional print cultures and the VedaABBREVIATIONSREFERENCESINDEX
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Penguin Random House India The Mahabharata Vol 7
Book SynopsisThe Mahabharata is a story of war between cousins, the Pandavas and Kouravas, centered on conflicts of dharma with no clear right or wrong. Characters face immense and varied dilemmas, showcasing every human emotion. Bibek Debroy's acclaimed translation captures the epic's enduring hold on imagination.
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Penguin Random House India The Mahabharata
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Penguin Random House India The Mahabharata
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Caitanya Vaisnava Philosophy
Book SynopsisIn the sixteenth century, the saint and scholar Sri Caitanya set in motion a wave of devotion to Krishna that began in eastern India and has now found its way around the world. Caitanya taught that the highest aim of life is to develop selfless love for God Krishna, the blue-hued cowherd boy who spoke the Bhagavad Gita. Although only a handful of poetry is attributed to Caitanya, his devotional theology was expounded and systematized by his followers in a vast array of poetical, philosophical, and ritual literature. This book provides a thematic study of Caitanya Vaishnava philosophy, introducing key thinkers and ideas in the early tradition, using Sanskrit and Bengali sources that have seldom been studied in English. The book addresses major areas of the tradition, including epistemology, ontology, aesthetics, ethics, and history, and every chapter includes relevant readings from primary sources.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Kenneth R.Valpey; Chapter 1 Reading, Kenneth R.Valpey; Chapter 2 Epistemology and Ontology, Ravi M.Gupta; Chapter 3 Reading, KiyokazuOkita; Chapter 4 Epistemology and Ontology II, KiyokazuOkita; Chapter 5 Reading, Ravi M.Gupta; Chapter 6 Ethics and Practice, Joseph T.O’Connell; Chapter 7 Reading, Graham M.Schweig; Chapter 8 Aesthetics, RembertLutjeharms; Chapter 9 Reading, RembertLutjeharms;
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Bhagavad Gita As it is Thai language
Book SynopsisUnlike other editions of the Gita, this one is presented as it is--without the slightest taint of adulteration or personal motivation. This edition is certain to stimulate and enlighten with its ancient yet thoroughly timely message.With 32 col. illustrations and Sanskrit pronunciation guide.
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Sakta Pithas
Book SynopsisThe Sakta Pithas by D.C. Sircar, which is limited and precise in scope but has a wide appeal, brings honour to the young historian of Calcutta. Its basis is a critical edition of the Pithanirnaya or Mahapithanirupana which is the short treatise of the late period describing the fifty one pilgrim sports associated with the Mother Goddess under some of her various names.
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Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd Secrets of Living: Eternal Fountain of
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Diamond Books Shrimad Bhagvat Purana
Book SynopsisThis book details the life of the Buddha, his teachings, practices and philosophy, as well as tracing the continuing spread of Budhism throughout the world.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Infinite Story: The Past & Present of the
Book SynopsisThe story of the Ramayana is well-known in all Indian language and Hindi literature is no exception to it. It has a long and rich tradition based on Ramkatha that through the centuries has challenged many authors.
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Pilgrims Publishing The Song of the Lord
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust An introduction to Bhagavad Gita Een korte
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Bhakti
Book SynopsisHis Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the world foremost master of the art of Bhakti brings the timeless principles of loving devotion to life in this introductory book, with coloured illustrations.
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HarperCollins India Venkatesha Suprabhatam: The Story of an Beloved
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Whose Ramayana Is It Anyway?
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Bhagavad Gita As it is Ukrainian Language
Book SynopsisThus, unlike other editions of the Gita, this one is presented as it is--without the slightest taint of adulteration or personal motivation. This edition is certain to stimulate and enlighten with its ancient yet thoroughly timely message.
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust Bhagavad Gita As it is Burmese language
Book SynopsisUnlike other editions of the Gita, this one is presented as it is--without the slightest taint of adulteration or personal motivation. This edition is certain to stimulate and enlighten with its ancient yet thoroughly timely message. With 16 col. illustrations and Sanskrit pronunciation guide.
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Oxford University Press, USA The Memory of Love
Book SynopsisSurdas is unarguably the best known poet in Vrajbhasha, the most widely understood of the medieval Hindi literary dialects. He is the foremost Hindi poet of Krishna devotion and his verses are canonical in the Krishnaite tradition, which today is particularly vital in Western India. The verses are sung popularly throughout the Hindi-speaking regions. As with most legendary poet-singers in Indian oral tradition, Surdas''s authorship has been attributed to a great many verses. In his case, these constitute a very large corpus of devotional lyrics to Krishna, known in Hindi as the Sur Sagar, Sur''s Ocean. In this volume, Jack Hawley offers a selection of his charming translations of the most appealing of these poems, arranged according to such themes as Krishna growing up, the pangs and politics of love, and The Ramayana. Hawley''s monumental annotated translation and commentary on the full corpus of lyrics attributed to Surdas, accompanied by Kenneth Bryant''s edition of the complete VraTrade ReviewThe songs of Surdas are presented here with a radiant lyricism that gives the reader a direct encounter with the 'sun' of Hindi's poetic firmament. Each poem is given the space to stand alone as a fine lyrical moment, while being discreetly supported by Hawley's perceptive annotations. An added title contextualizes each song, and an authoritative introduction helps the reader understand the complex background from which this sublime poetry has emerged. * Rupert Snell, Associate Director, Hindi Urdu Flagship, University of Texas at Austin *Table of ContentsI. KRISHNA GROWING UP
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Oxford University Press Magic Doe
Book SynopsisMirigavati or The Magic Doe is the work of Shaikh Qutban Suhravardi, an Indian Sufi master who was also an expert poet and storyteller attached to the glittering court-in-exile of Sultan Husain Shah Sharqi of Jaunpur. Composed in 1503 as an introduction to mystical practice for disciples, this powerful Hindavi or early Hindi Sufi romance is a richly layered and sophisticated text, simultaneously a spiritual enigma and an exciting love-story full of adventures. The Mirigavati is both an excellent introduction to Sufism and one of the true literary classics of pre-modern India, a story that draws freely on the large pool of Indian, Islamic, and European narrative motifs in its distinctive telling of a mystical quest and its resolution. Adventures from the Odyssey and the voyages of Sindbad the Sailor--sea voyages, encounters with monstrous serpents, damsels in distress, flying demons and cannibals in caves, among others--surface in Suhravardi''s rollicking tale, marking it as first-rate Trade ReviewWe are very fortunate to have this remarkable work in a sparkling verse translation whose brio effortlessly carries the reader forward. All is well supported by a rich introduction. This is the work, and I must say the labour of love, of a brilliant young scholar of the University of Pennsylvania, Aditya Behl, who died in 2009 aged forty-two. His teacher, Wendy Doniger of the University of Chicago, has ensured that it has been published. It should undermine the ignorance which has surrounded Hindavi literature and, most importantly, bring it to a wider audience. * Francis Robinson, Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsForeword: In Memory of Aditya Behl by Wendy Doniger ; Introduction ; The Prologue ; The Story of Mirigavati and Rajkunvar ; Envoi ; Notes
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LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD How the Great Mother Emerged
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Bhagavad Gita A New Translation
Book SynopsisThe Bhagavad Gita, a small section of the massive Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata, is one of the central texts of Indian culture and philosophy, and one of the great works of world literature. It has been translated into English many times since 1785. This title emphasizes the social, historical, and philosophical contexts surrounding the text.
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Light of the Spirit Church The Bhagavad Gita The Song of God
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