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ANCIENT INDIAN HISTORY BOOKS - DISCOVER VEDIC HISTORY |
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| Our concept of history is constantly changing - the Vedic texts give us a consistent frame of reference and open our being to a history that is still very much unknown. That of ancient civilizations who lived without destructive technologies as we do today. They nurtured mother nature and cared for the earth. They enjoyed health and longevity. In today's history books just fragments remain of the Vedic culture that once spanned accross the world. In our history books section you can discover Vedic history, the ancient history of India and go on a journey to your Self. |
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Mahatma Gandhi |
Gandhi an Autobiography |
$9.95 $5.97 |
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| Gandhi's nonviolent struggles in South Africa and India
had already brought him to such a level of notoriety, adulation, and controversy
that when asked to write an autobiography midway through his career, he took it
as an opportunity to explain himself. Although accepting of his status as a
great innovator in the struggle against racism, violence, and, just then,
colonialism, Gandhi feared that enthusiasm for his ideas tended to exceed a
deeper understanding. He says that he was... |
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Pushkar Bhatnagar |
Dating The Era of Lord Ram |
$24.99 $14.99 |
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| Sage Valmiki, a contemporary of Lord Ram, mentioned in his magnum opus Ramayana that when Lord Ram was born, the sun was located in Aries,Saturn was in libra, Jupiter and the moon were shining in Cancer, Venus was seen in Pisces while Mars was in Capricorn. Moreover, It was the ninth day of the increasing phase of the moon in the lunar month of Chaitra.
The two illustrations on the cover display, with the help of a powerful software, that these unique astral conditions were present in the sky... |
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Niketan Anand Gaur |
Sthapatya Ved-Vastu Sastra |
$7.99 $4.79 |
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| For civilized people a comfortable residence is as necessary as food and cloths. In fact the standard of civilization seems to be regulated, amongst other things, by durablity, scientific plan, aesthetic construction, and successful finish of buildings, religious, residential or military . The book tries to trace the origin and historical background of Vasty Shastra in Vedic, Buddhist, Epic, Pauranic, Agamic, Historical, Political and Astronomical literature of ancient India .
The book... |
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Georg Feurstein |
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization |
$24.99 $14.99 |
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| The book shows that the ancient Indians were no primitives but possessed a
high spiritual culture, which not only influenced the evolution of the Western
world in decisive ways but which still has much to teach us today. India's
archaic spirituality is codified in the rich symbols, metaphors, and myths of
the magnificent Rig-Veda, which is shown to be much older than has been widely
assumed by scholars. The present book also unravels the astonishing mathematical
and astronomical... |
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M. S. Parkhe |
Agnihotra: The Vedic Solution for Present-Day Problems |
$4.95 $2.97 |
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David Frawley |
Gods Sages and Kings |
$15.99 $9.59 |
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| Vedic Secrets of Ancient Civilization
An expert on Eastern philosophy and Eastern medicine, the author presents a spiritual vision of who we are and where we come from. In so doing, he seeks to fill a void in our understanding of human history, revealing secrets of Vedic and ancient civilization.
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"David Frawley has categorically explained his arguments. His approach is lucid and clear. It is apparent that he has done a lot of research on this and I am glad there... |
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Gerald James Larson |
Classical Samkhya |
$14.95 $8.97 |
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| The tradition of Samkhya is one of the oldest and most influential in the intellectual history of India. The fundamental notions of Samkhya namely prakrti, purusa, buddhi, ahamkara manas and the three gunas, provided the conceptual framework in which much of Indian philosophizing occurred, and the classical formulations of Yoga and Vedanta together with many traditions of Buddhist philosophy and meditation developed vis-à-vis the intellectual perspective of the Samkhya. Similarly on a general... |
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Dr. N.N. Bhattacharyya |
History of the Tantric Religion |
$24.35 $14.61 |
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| The book studies the different aspects of Tantrism, its vastness and intricacies, its heterogeneous and contradictory elements and gives a historical perspective to the conglomeration of ideas and practices through space and time. It also incorporates a review of Tantric art and a glossary of technical terms.
Tantrism, both traditional and Buddhist, with its vast literature containing intricate ritualistic and philosophical details occupies an important place in the religious and cultural life... |
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Kanti Chandra Pandey |
Abhinavagupta: An Historical and Philosophical Study |
$57.99 $34.79 |
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| The work of "Abhinavagupta : An Historical and Philosophical Study", is an important contribution to scholarship. It provides an account of well-known, but little-studied, philosophical system, known under the several names of 'Siva' 'Trika' 'Pratyabhijna' and others. The basic Sutras expounding the system are by Siva himself, followed by Parasurama Gaudapada and others: but like Sankaracarya in the realm of Vedanta whose basis lay in the Upanisads, the person who made the system... |
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David Kinsley |
Hindu Goddesses |
$12.99 $7.79 |
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| Hindu Goddesses is a valuable sourcebook and reference work for students
and scholars of Hindu goddesses and of Hinduism in general. Each goddess is
dealt with as an independent deity with a coherent mythology, theology and, in
some cases, cult of her own. Within the complex, diverse, and rich goddess
traditions of Hinduism, one can find suggestions of nearly every important theme
in the Hindu religion. In many ways, this book is as much a study of the Hindu
tradition itself as it... |
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Algis Uzdavinys |
The Golden Chain |
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| Presenting key writings of the most important sources of Pythagorean, Platonic and Neoplatonic thought, The Golden Chain defines this philosophy as a spiritual and contemplative way of life that ultimately leads to the vision of God. These writings point to underlying influences from Chaldean, Egyptian, Phoenician and Indian sages, suggesting that the Hellenic wisdom from which all subsequent Western philosophy arose was established upon a perennial philosophy of unchanging metaphysical... |
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Samten G. Karmay |
The Treasury of Good Sayings - A Tibetan History of Bon |
$18.99 $11.39 |
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| This volume is a partial translation of the Tibetan
text, 'legsbshad-mdzod,' a history of the Bon religion. Bon is a pre-Buddhist
system of belief in Tibet, which survived many persecutions, and still covered
large parts of Tibet till occupation by Communist China in 1959.
The book gives a full account of the ancient religion, its origins and developments, its struggles against the later imported Buddhism, and its fight for survival in spite of persecution and even abolition on two... |
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Ramashankar Tripathi |
History of Ancient India |
$15.99 $9.59 |
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| This book gives an authoritative, up-to-date, and compendious account of the history, institutions and culture of India from the earliest times to the advent of the Moslem period. It is based on all available materials- literary, epigraphic, and numismatic- and is written in a most elegant, sober, and lucid style.
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R. Satyanarayana |
Caturdandiprakasika of Venkatamakhin (2 volumes) |
$149.95 $89.97 |
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| Caturdandiprakasika (c. 1650 A.D.) of Venkatamakhin is a fundamental treatise of Karnataka music and marks the rearguard in the renaissance of Indian music. It has launched a crucial, conceptual revolution which has metamorphosed this musical system into an enduring the attractive paddhati. Caturdandiprakasika is written in ten chapters: Vina, Sruti, Svara, Mela, Raga, Alapa, Thaya, Gita Prabandha and Tala. The first volume consists of the critically edited Text, English Translation,... |
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John Crook |
Yogins of Ladakh |
$25.49 $15.29 |
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| It investigates the social anthropology of the area through studies of
village life. Further it enquires the social organisations, history,
meditational practices and philosophy of the yogins who still lived and
practised in the remote parts of the area. This study is a record of author's
findings about Ladakhi Yogins.
In 1977 prof. Crook led an expedition to Zangskar in Ladakh initiating a series of studies on the ecology of village and monastic life in the Buddhist Himalayas. During... |
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Alain Danielou |
The Ragas of Northern Indian Music |
$32.49 $19.49 |
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| The first part of the book traces the history of Indian music and the continuity of its theory and practice for more than two thousand years. It is based on many years' research into the vast ancient Sanskrit literature of music. These valuable technical treatises, which lie in the form of scarcely catalogued manuscripts throughout the public and private libraries of India, had hitherto remained unemplored. Part Two transcribes and studies in detail 50 typical Raga-s. Each is preceded by a... |
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Prem P. Bhalla |
Hindu Rites, Rituals, Customs and Traditions |
$12.99 $7.79 |
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| Rites, rituals and customs play a major role in the life of every person, irrespective of religious affiliations. However,this is more prominent in the case of Hindus. Right from the time of conception and birth, up to a person`s passing away and even after it, rites and rituals follow a Hindu at all times, much like a shadow. Indeed, there is one or the other rite, ritual or custom that comes into play for Hindus 365 days of the year.
However, unlike other religions where many customs are... |
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T.A. Saraswati Amma |
Geometry in Ancient and Medieval India |
$24.99 $14.99 |
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| This book is a geometrical survey of the Samskrit and Prakrt scientific and quasi-scientific literature of India beginning with the Vedic literature and ending with the early part of the 17th century. It deals in detail with the Sulbasutras in the Vedic literature, with the mathematical parts of Jaina Canonical works of the Hindu Siddhantas, and with the contributions to geometry made by the astronomer mathematicians Aryabhata I & II, Sripati, Bhaskara I & II, Sangamagrama Madhava,... |
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Ram Avtar |
Theory Of Indian Music |
$18.99 $11.39 |
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| This book provides a historical, cultural & technical overview of the evolution of Indian music. |
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Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
Orion : A Search into the Ancientness of Aryan-Vedic Culture (An Ignored Historical Research) |
$19.49 $11.69 |
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| That the sacred thread – Yajnopavita among the Hindus and Kushti among the Parsis – is the sign of the constellation Orion’s belt, underlines its supreme significance among ancient and modern Aryans. Its mention in Vedic literature inspired the Sanskrit scholar Lokmanya Tilak to use it to fix the date of that early period of history – a task neither Yaska nor Sayana could think of.
A unique and definitive study of the subject, it casts interesting new light on obscure Aryan-Vedic culture. It... |
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