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Samten G. Karmay |
The Treasury of Good Sayings - A Tibetan History of Bon |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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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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Bhup Singh Gulia |
The Traditions of Northern India: A Study of Art, Architecture and Crafts in Haryana |
$156.49 $109.54 |
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| Bhup Singh Gulia and Ranbir Singh have done a remarkable job in generating primary information about the text of the book and enriched it with pictorial representations depicting various unknown elements of folk art and craft that could be gathered from Haryana. A large number of distinctive forms and styles, in respect of arts and crafts invented and developed by the people of Haryana that accompany the text as photographic representations and illustrations in various chapters of the book,... |
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B.V. Subbarayappa |
The Tradition of Astronomy in India Jyotihsastra: History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization (Volume IV Part-4) |
$115.49 $80.84 |
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| This Volume endeavours to present the preceptible facets of the tradition of astronomy in India:- the torch-bearers of this tradition and their texts; main characteristics of Indian astronomy; scientific approach to the phenomenon of eclipse; pancanga and its social dimensions including the vrata-s, festivals and other observances, origin of astrological ideas, their seeming links with astronomy and certain contraditictions; extensive computations concerning planetary revolutions in a huge... |
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Yeshi Dorjee |
The Three Boys: And Other Buddhist Folktales from Tibet |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| A virtuous young woman journeys to the land of the Dead to retrieve the still-beating heart of a king; a wily corpse-monster tricks his young captor into setting him free, the king falls under a curse that turns him into a cannibal; a shepherd who understands the speech of animals, saves a princess from certain death. These are just a few of the wondrous tales that await readers of this collection of Tibetan Buddhist Folktales. Fifteen stories are told for modern readers in a vivid, accessible... |
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Vishwa Chander Ohri |
The Technique of Pahari Painting : An Inquiry into Aspects of Materials, Methods and History : (Based Upon Observation and Field –Work) |
$112.99 $79.09 |
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| This richly illustrated book is the first detailed study of the technique of Indian painting with an emphasis on the particulars for crafting of Pahari paintings of the Basohli, the Guler and the Kangra styles. After Moti Chandra’s The Technique of Mughal painting, 1949, numerous articles on various aspects of this subject had appeared in the long intervening period.
The author presents here a comprehensive account of the technique, the methods and the materials used in painting, miniatures... |
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P.N. Oak |
The Taj Mahal is Tejomahalaya a Shiva Temple |
$23.49 $16.44 |
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Kireet Joshi |
The Siege of Troy |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| An extract from the famous poem of Homer, the Iliad.
Through this epic, Homer presents the Greek world-view, a view of life where men are seen as a base metal beaten and shaped by the gods and fate until their inner golden nature is revealed.
He showed the Greeks more than just heroic deeds; his poetic genius drew aside the curtain of outer events and gave a vivid picture of the inner forces there at work.
Introduction, text and notes.
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Thomas McEvilley |
The Shape of Ancient Thought: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indian Philosophies |
$102.49 $71.74 |
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| This unparalleled comparative study of early Eastern and Western philosophy challenges every existing belief about the philosophical foundations of Western civilization. Spanning thirty years of intense intellectual inquiry and research, the author proves what many scholars before him have sensed but couldn't empirically explain: that the seemingly autonomous and separate metaphysical schemes of Greek and Idnian cultures have mutually influenced each other over a long period of time, to the... |
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Gordon Risley Hearn |
The Seven Cities of Delhi |
$81.00 $56.70 |
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| The present volume contains an excellent account of the history and architecture of Delhi. It will afford readers and visitors not only a clear guide to all that is seen in Delhi but also an intelligent record of the history of the place in all its various phases.
Sir Hearn coined the phrase "Seven Cities of Delhi", popularizing the famous
drawing of the seven cities that accompanied the original text. Both the drawing
and the notion of the seven cities of Delhi have survived to this day.... |
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Stephen Knapp |
The Secret Teachings of the Vedas: The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life - Vol 1 |
$17.99 $12.59 |
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| This is a book that provides one of the best reviews of ancient Eastern philosophy and gives access to some of the most important spiritual knowledge found anywhere. It also offers a look at some of mankind's loftiest of thoughts and realizations about who he is and what his relationship is with the universe. This book supplies a means to unlock the mysteries of the ancient Eastern wisdom and presents answers to questions not found in other religions or philosophies. It condenses information... |
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B. B. Lal |
The Saraswati Flows On: The Continuity of Indian Culture |
$80.49 $56.34 |
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| This book deals with two major controversies relating to India's past. First, It has been asserted by many scholars, both Indian and foreign, that the Sarasvati mentioned in the Rigveda is the Helmand of Afghanistan. The author examines the entire Rigvedic evidence and demonstrates that it goes counter to aforesaid assumption.
On the other hand, there are compelling geographical data in the Rigveda itself which unambiguously show that the Rigvedic Sarasvati is none other than the present-day... |
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T. Burrow |
The Sanskrit Language |
$49.95 $34.97 |
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| The Sanskrit Language presents a systematic and
comprehensive historical account of the developments in phonology and
morphology. This is the only book in English which treats the structure of the
Sanskrit language in its relation to the other Indo-European languages and
throws light on the significance of the discovery of Sanskrit. It is this
discovery that contributed to the study of the comparative philology of the
Indo-European languages and eventually the whole science of... |
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Pierre Sylvain Filliozat |
The Sanskrit Language |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| The Sanskrit Language by P S Filliozat has the rare distinction of being both an introductory book and a new ground-breaking study. It is an introductory book because the reader gets an accurate overview of the language, and it is also a new ground-breaking study because Filliozat’s approach harmonizes two different and complementary stands that often have been at war: the Western historical and comparative approach and the indigenous pundit tradition. Sanskrit is described here from these two... |
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R. Balasubramaniam |
The Saga of Indian Cannons |
$288.49 $201.94 |
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| The invention of cannons and their use in warfare added a different dimension to battles. The fates of nations were decided by the use of cannons. The science of gunpowder and the technology of cannons, from their introduction in the Indian subcontinent in the middle of the fifteenth century up to the pre-modern period, have been illustrated using Mughal miniature paintings and analysis of extant cannon pieces. The massive and wonderful forge welded iron cannons and cast bronze cannons of... |
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William P. Harman |
The Sacred Marriage of a Hindu Goddess |
$13.89 $9.72 |
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| For at least the past two hundred years, Hindus in southern India have celebrated the marriage of the goddess Minakshi to the Hindu god Siva. This annual ten-day celebration is among the largest and most famous Hindu festivals, attracting hundreds of thousands of the faithful each year.
William Harman's work examines this important ritual event from a variety of perspectives, including the history of religions, Sanskrit and Tamil textual traditions, and Hindu culture. Moving beyond... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
The Renaissance in India |
$4.95 $3.47 |
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| On the spirit behind the Indian social and cultural resurgence.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new... |
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Devangana Desai |
The Religious Imagery of Khajuraho |
$179.49 $125.64 |
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| Because of undue association with erotic sculpture, Khajuraho's significant contribution to the religious art of the country is hardly noticed. This Medieval religious town of central India, now a lovely village, preserves an important group of temples which represents the Indian temple in its highly evolved form, both architecturally and conceptually. While the architectural survey of the temples is done by scholars, the present work is an iconological and interpretative study of images and... |
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Shridhar B. Shrotri |
The Religion of the Veda |
$29.95 $20.97 |
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| The work is complete in four chapters preceded by an introduction discussing in detail the sources, viz., the Vedas, brahmanas and Sutras.
Translation of Oldenberg's classic German work on Vedic religious beliefs, cults and customs. trans. by Shridhar B. Shrotri. Represents the best of orientalist scholarship. |
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Prof L.S. Rathore |
The Regal Patriot: Maharaja Ganga Singh Of Bikaner |
$37.49 $26.24 |
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| The princely states of pre-independent India threw up many charismatic leaders, political stalwarts and influential princes. Among the more dynamic was Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner (1880-1943).
Inheriting a strife-ridden kingdom as a mere adolescent of eighteen, Ganga Singh showed a leadership and wisdom well beyond his years, successfully reigning in warring factions and carving out a meticulous, and far sighted plan of progress for Bikaner, which he executed with remarkable success.... |
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M.R. Kale |
The Raghuvamsa of Kalidasa |
$18.99 $13.29 |
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| This epic poem in Sanskrit text with a literal English translation and copious notes and also commentary Sanjivani of Mallinatha is the only work of Kalidasa which contains a number of references to the geography of India as it was known to him in those days. |
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Alain Danielou |
The Ragas of Northern Indian Music |
$41.99 $29.39 |
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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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K. D. Sethna |
The Problem of Aryan Origins: From an Indian Point of View |
$38.49 $26.94 |
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| This research work is a challenge to the historical orthodoxy that believes in the dogma of an Aryan invasion of the Indian subcontinent around the middle of the second millennium B.C.. The author, with the help of the insight provided by Sri Aurobindo in this subject, has mustered a host of arguments archaeological, literary and linguistic, in order to establish his thesis that contrary to the belief of an Aryan invasion of a Dravidian country, the presence of Dravido-Aryanism or... |
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Kaviraja Dhirendra Nath Ray |
The Principle Of Tridosa In Ayurveda |
$9.99 $6.99 |
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| Ayurveda is the most ancient of all medical sciences. It is the only medical science which has withstood the ravages of time and is still thriving steadily and triumphantly even amidst the modern medical sciences of the West. It is a rich heritage handed down to us by the ancient Hindu sages of divine insight and unlimited experience. Like Hindu sages of divine insight and unlimited experience. Like Hindu philosophy, it is a vast storehouse of knowledge and even in this age of rapidly... |
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Alan Jacobs |
The Principal Upanishads |
$22.95 $16.07 |
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| The origins of the Upanishads, sacred writings of Hinduism, predate recorded history. They are thought of by many as perhaps the greatest of all the books in the history of world religions. Since they were revealed to the Rishis of the Vedic civilisation some 5,000 to 10,000 years ago, many have come to regard them as the kernel of the mystical and philosophical truths that are the basis of understanding religion today. Alan Jacobs has used free modern verse to convey the essential... |
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Kumkum Roy |
The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power: Explorations in Early Indian History |
$54.49 $38.14 |
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| Is it possible to recover the histories of gender for early India? How can gender analyses enrich our understanding of early India today? Drawing upon a range of textual traditions, this unique collection examines the significance of gender in the reconstruction of India’s past. It goes beyond the simple binaries of a ‘high’ or ‘low’ status for women to explore the diversities and complexities of gender relations in early India.
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Introduction
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