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Sadhu Mukundcharandas |
Hindu Festivals |
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| The Bochasanwasi shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha (BAPS) is a global socio-spiritual organisation committed to the moral and spiritual uplift of mankind. It was established in 1907 CE by Brahmaswarup Shastriji Maharaj in consonance with the Vedic teachings propogated by Bhagwan Swaminarayan (1781-1830 CE). The Sanstha`s global netwark of 9,090 satsang centres, 55,000 volenteers and over 700 sadhus implement a variety of philanthropic and spiritual activities. BAPS is an NGO in... |
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C.R. Devadhar |
Abhijnanasakuntalam of Kalidasa (Devadhar) |
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Sarat Chandra Das |
A Tibetan English Dictionary |
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| Compiled from a large number of Tibetan and Sanskrit works, A Tibetan English Dictionary represents the arduous labour of the author for 12 years. Here the Tibetan words are given in alphabetical order with their accepted sanskrit equivalents followed by the English meaning. All the technical terms are illustrated from extracts from Sanskrit -Buddhist and Tibetan works.
The author has included modern Tibetan words which were not given by Koros and Jascheke. The great Tibetan scholars Rev.... |
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Sumitra M. Katre (Tr.) |
Astadhyayi of Panini |
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| Panini`s grammar of sanskrit written in the sixth century B.C., is the earlist linguistic description of the language and is the source and inspiration for the development of comparative philosophy and modern linguistics. The Astadhyayi remains the most correct and complete grammer ever written and is considered a model for all grammars.Simotra M. Katre`s expert translation fo the Astadhyayi is the first English translation of the work to use Roman transliteration for the sanskrit text. Not... |
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B.V. Raman |
How to Judge a Horoscope (Vol.I) |
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| How to Judge a Horoscope is a departure from the conventional method of treatment of astrology. It is a study in the use of Horoscope in every man`s daily life. The work in two volumes is divided in twelve houses, containing six each in consecutive order. The twelve houses have reference to the material relation of soul (jeeva) in its journey from the cradle to the grave. The study of illustrations (charts) makes every point even the omitted rudimentary principles and rules very clear and... |
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Ramashankar Mishra |
Astadhyayisutrapatha--Panini Pranit |
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| This title is available only in Sanskrit language. |
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B.V. Raman |
How to Judge a Horoscope (Vol.II) |
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| How to Judge a Horoscope is a departure from the conventional method of treatment of astrology. It is a study in the use of Horoscope in every man`s daily life. The work in two volumes is divided in twelve houses, containing six each in consecutive order. The twelve houses have reference to the material relation of soul (jeeva) in its journey from the cradle to the grave. The study of illustrations (charts) makes every point even the omitted rudimentary principles and rules very clear and... |
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Thomas Egenes |
Introduction to Sanskrit (Pt.II) |
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| Introduction to Sanskrit, in two volumes, is designed to open the door to India`s rich spiritual literature. This self-teaching guide presents Sanskrit pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary in simple and systematic steps, allowing students to easily master the fundamentals of this enchanting language. Each lesson includes instruction in alphabet, grammar, and vocabulary, with concise explanations and easy practice exercises. Also included in Part One is a reading from the Bhagavad-Gita and... |
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Justin E. Abbott |
Bahina Bai |
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| The Maratha people can point with pride to many of their poet-saints who were women of literary ability, wise in philosophy and godly in character. Bahina Bai is one of them. The present work introduces this saint-poetess whose autobiography and verses have been known to but a few outside Maharashtra.The author has not attempted to translate all the verses of Bahina Bai. Instead, he has chosen such portions as seemed best adapted to give to the English reader the thoughts of this Indian woman... |
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Lokmanya Bla Gangadhar Tilak |
Arctic Home in the Vedas |
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Valerie. J. Barrow |
Alcheringa |
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N.H.Sahasrabudhe & |
Cosmic Science of Vaastu |
$14.49 $10.14 |
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| This book attempts to bridge the gap between traditional Vaastushastra and modern architecture. The cosmic effects of a wrong vaastu and the remedial approaches are discussed at length. Virtues of directions, analysis of the five great elements, two stream theory, Ind flying stars and the relation between Nature and Individual are also discused in detail. This book covers all the concepts, theories and correlations of various disciplines like astrology, yogshastra, modern architecture and... |
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Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa |
Bhagawan Nityananda of Ganeshpuri |
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| Written by Bhagawan Nityananda`s foremost disciple and successor Swami Muktananda who became a world famous Siddha Master in his own right this book is a boon to seekers who long to experience God within themselves. As Swami Muktananda so eloquently states.Every soul keeps hoping for a divine life. But as a person moves through this worls he gradually forgets his own greatness. He forgets more and more. |
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Prem Lata Sharma, Ed. |
Brhaddesi of Sri Matanga Muni (Vol.I) |
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| Brhaddesi is a landmark in Sangitasastra for more than one reason. It is the solitary text that forges a link between Natyasastra and Dattilam on the one hand and Abhinava Bharati on the other, the gap extending over more than five hundred years. Its direct influence on later texts like Sangita Ratnakara and its commentaries is obvious in various ways, be it nada from the Tantric stream or the etymology of various terms or the description of ragas. The fact that it is co-eval with the emergence... |
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Prem Lata Sharma, Ed. |
Brhaddesi of Sri Matanga Muni (Vol.II) |
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| Brhaddesi is a landmark in Sangitasastra for more than one reason. It is the solitary text that forges a link between Natyasastra and Dattilam on the one hand and Abhinava Bharati on the other, the gap extending over more than five hundred years. Its direct influence on later texts like Sangita Ratnakara and its commentaries is obvious in various ways, be it nada from the Tantric stream or the etymology of various terms or the description of ragas. The fact that it is co-eval with the emergence... |
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Kapiladev Dwivedi |
A Sanskrit Vyakaran Praveshika |
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Vishwanath Shastri |
Laghusidhant Kumudhi-Srivaradrajpranit |
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| Please note: This title is in Sanskrit & Hindi & not English. |
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David Frawley |
Ayurveda Nature`s Medicine |
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| Ayurveda, the science of life, is the extraordionary natural healing tradition of india, going back over five thousand years. It is closely connected with the profound yoga and meditation path of the region, emphasizing consciousness as the foundation of the health and well-being. Ayueveda is a powerful system of mind-body medicine covering all spects of physical, psychological and spiritual healing. It teaches us the language of nature so that we can take control of our own karma. It unlocks... |
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Vasant Lad |
Ayurveda (The Science of Self Healing) |
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| For the first time a book is available which clearly explains the principles and practical applications of Ayurveda, the oldest healing system in the world. The beautifully illustrated text thoroughly explains the following: History & Philosophy--Basic Principles Diagnostic Techniques--Treatment Diet--Medicinal Usage of Kitchen Herbs & Spices First Aid--Food Antidotes--And Much More. More than 50 concise charts, diagrams and tables are included, as well as a glossary and index in order to... |
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Radhakumud Mookerji |
Chandragupta Maurya and His Times |
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| This is a comprehensive work dealing with the life and times of India`s first historical emperor, and a picture of the civilization of India in the early period of the fourth century BC. The author had utilized much material found in Arthasastra. The work also embodies collation and comparison of evidence from different sources, classical works in Sanskrit, Buddhist and jaina texts and the inscriptions of Asoka. The book gives a detailed account of Chandragupta Maurya and the general view of... |
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M.R. Kale |
Hitopadesa of Narayana (KALE) |
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| This work aims at teaching the principles of polity guided by morality, presenting them in the agreeable form of stories written mainly in prose interspersed with verse. It belongs to that class of compositions which imparts instructions through fables inspired by the wisdom of its place and time. The work is divided into four books: The book I describes how to win friends. The book II deals with the circumstances leading to the loss of friends. The book III relates war and the book IV to... |
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M.R. Kale, Ed. |
Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa (Kale) |
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| The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa varies from the loveliness of spring and the delights of married love to the utter desolation induced by the death of beloved. The subject is unquestionably a daring one: the events which bring about the marriage of Lord Siva to Uma and the birth of Skanda.The prose order of each sloka has been given in the commentary by using bold type, the words not actually repeated by Mallinatha being enclosed within rectangular brackets. The notes explain allusions,... |
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B. Suryanarain Rao |
Brihat Jataka of Varahamihira |
$25.49 $17.84 |
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| Birhat Jatak from time immemorial has been considered as the standard textbook on Astrology. The English translation of Varahamihira`s Brihat Jataka is a monumental work in completing which the difficulties in translating a beautiful, technical and suggestive work in sanskrit had to surmounted by hard labour, profound research and want of adequate expressions.It is not mere a translation work; the ripe experience of Mr. Rao for over 60 years in the field of Astrology and his sound judgment on... |
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Donald Van Howten |
Ayurveda and Life Impressions Bodywork |
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| This book takes the wisdom from the East, specifically from the ancient science of Ayurveda and combines it with a version of the Western medical moder, stirs in large portions of awareness, safety, and support, adds practical visual techniques, and passes this recipe along into capable hands and hearts.Whether you are a professional in the health field or lay person simply interested in taking better care of yourself and others, you will find Ayurveda & Life Impressions Bodywork a refreshing,... |
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K.L.Sharma |
Kailash Mansarovar |
$9.17 $6.42 |
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| This book is an attempt at exposing the reader to various aspects of this journey to Eternity.A Valuable guide, it gives a day-to-day account of the Kailesh-Mansarovar Yatra on the Indian as well as Tibetian side, besides important information about the geography of the reagion, preperation of the journey, mountain trekking, tips for photography, and much more.Sixteen photographs of the Yatra route have been added in the book to reveal the breathtaking natural beauty of the area.
Shri... |
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Dennis Waite |
An Essential Guide To Sanskrit |
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| An Essential Guide to sanskrit provides a two level introduction to the sanskrit language. Level one introduces the transliterated alphabets used by books and the internet for reproducing sanskrit. Level two teaches the Devenagari script used used for the true language and describes the main rules for combining letters and worlds. Correct pronuncitation and writing are explained.
Dennis Waite following an intense scientific based education through the nineteen sixties emerged with a... |
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J.N. Mishra |
Marma and its Management |
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| Marma Vigyan is one of the specialties of Ayurveda. The development of standards of treatment for the acutely injured has been closely related to several significant medical dicoveries organized care of the acutely injured though comparatively recent innovations.
The Author of the book was born in a city of western U.P. ie Farrukhabad on 28th Oct. 1944. His school going activitites were performed in Lucknow, Varanasi and Gonda. He completed his college education from G.N. L.D. Rastogi... |
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Gopal Krishna Goswami |
Amrtera Tarangini |
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B. Niranjan Babu |
Handbook of Vastu |
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Ramesh S. Balsekar |
Let Life Flow |
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| About the Author:
Ramesh S. Balsekar is a disciple of the late Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master. From early childhood, Balsekar was drawn to Advaita, a nondual teaching, particularly the teachings of Ramana Maharshi and Wei Wu Wei. Ramesh has written over 20 books, and discusses the Indian philosophy of Advaita daily in Bombay, with visitors from around the world. The basic concept is that "all there is, is Consciousness"; all actions are happenings, the... |
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Ramesh Menon |
Devi |
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Uma Marina Vesci |
Heat and Sacrifice in the Vedas |
$21.94 $15.36 |
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| In all religions of the world which maintain sacrificial rituals and in which the portion offered to Gods is given to fire, that portion is normally offered raw except in Vedic India, where its previous cooking is necessary.
About the Author:
Born in Roma (Italia), Uma Marina Vesci received her education in Roma itself, graduating in Ancient History and Archaeology with a thesis on: "The Use of Musical Instruments in the Religious Life of Ancient Greece." |
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Donald S. Lopez (Ed.) |
Buddhist Hermeneutics |
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| Given its vast literature and its practice of teaching what is appropriate for a particular disciple, the Buddhist tradition has long had to wrestle with the question of which of his many scriptures represented the Buddha`s highest view. In response to that problem, Buddhist commentators developed sophisticated systems of interpretation, Buddhist hermeneutics. The present volume of essays by leading Western Buddhologists surveys the rich variety of strategies employed by Buddhist thinkers of... |
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Richard F. Gombrich |
Buddhist Precept and Practice |
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| This is an epoch-making piece of research which must mark a change in direction and appreciation if it is taken seriously and studied in detail. Dr. Gombrich is concerned with religious change in belief and practice, not only in modern times but over the two and a half millennia during which Buddhism had flourished. He concludes that Sinhalese Buddhism has been remarkably conservative and rejects the assumption that it degenerated from an original high standard, by questioning whether it ever... |
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Alex Wayman (Tr. with Annot. & Introd.) |
Chanting the Names of Manjusri |
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| This is the first English translation of one of the most revered and often-used tantric texts in Tibetan Buddhism--the Manjusri-namasamgiti. While consisting of only 160 verses and some mantra sentences, the work condenses an enormous tantric lore, so much that it garnered exalted mention in the Vimalaprabha--the great commentary on the Kalacakra--and is cited a number of times in the celebrated tantrist Naropa's Hevajratantra commentary. It is the complete original Sanskrit, with its Tibetan... |
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Mark Macdowell |
A Comparative Study of the Teachings of Don Juan and Madhyamaka Buddhism |
$11.99 $8.39 |
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| The publication of Carlos Castaneda`s works on the teachings of Don Juan, a yaqui Indian seer, was a momentous event in the history of esoteric literature. At the time of their publication, the author was engaged in the study of Indian philosophy, with special reference to the Madhyamaka Buddhism, as formulated and expounded by Nagarjuna. The author was struck by the profound similarities between the teachings of Don Juan and Nagarjuna--in particular concerning Samvrti and Paramartha of... |
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David J. Kalupahana |
Mulamadhyamakakarika of Nagarjuna |
$23.61 $16.53 |
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| This is a completely new translation of Nagarjuna`s major work the Mulamadhyamakakarika, accompanied by a detailed annotation of each of the verses. The annotation identifies the metaphysical theories of the scholastics criticized by Nagarjuna, and traces the source material and the arguments utilized in his refutation back to the early discourses of the Buddha.The book shows that Nagarjuna`s ideas are neither original nor are they an advancement from the early Buddhist period. Nagarjuna is not... |
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Y.J. Padmarajiah |
A Comparative Study of the Jaina Theories of Relity and Knowledge |
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| An attempt to determine the meaning and contents of the notion of dravya and distinguish between the two concepts of guna and paryaya. Cursorily also discusses notions of realtivity, continuity, divisibilty and negation. It presents an analytical account and a critical estimation of the methods of knowledge with an investigation into the nature and the logical evolution of the theory of manifoldness (anekantavada). The work has aimed throughout at a comparative treatment of the problems. Effort... |
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Swami Mahadevananda |
Devotional Songs of Narsi Mehta |
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| Narsi Mehta was the greatest and perhaps the most significant bhakta-poet of Gujarati. His 100 songs translated here include 40 songs of the Smgara na pado, 30 verses of Smgara Mala and 30 philosophical/devotional songs. The 70 verses from the two Srngara collections treat the theme of Radha-Krsna love play in a manner similar to the Gita-Govinda. A hundred songs, representative of Narsi Mehta`s philosophy, social message and the portrayal of love-play between Radha and Krsna are for the first... |
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Sarva Daman Singh |
Ancient Indian Warfare |
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| In Ancient Indian Warfare, the author has pieced together all the available archaeological data and made a thorough study of the entire range of Vedic literature in a bid to present for the first time as complete a picture of warfare as these sources permit. He deals with a period so far given scant attention, or none at all. He stops where virtually all the other writers on the subject begin. The Epic and Buddhist material has been used to support, elucidate and complete the picture of the... |
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M.R Kale |
Dasakumaracarita of Dandian |
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| The Dasa-kumara-carita or `Adventures of the Ten Princes`, contains stories of common life and reflects a faithful picture of Indian society during the period. It consists of (1) Purvapithika, (2) Dasakumaracarita Proper, and (3) Uttarapithika. The edition consists of variants, English translation, explanatory and critiical notes and an exhaustive introduction. It is designed to meet the requirements of the University students in all respects. |
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Mukund Lath |
Dattilam |
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| The Dattilam is a remarkable treatise from the earliest known period of organised, systematic writing on music in India. The work can be placed in the same period as the Natyasastra and it presents to us a well develped sastra composed at the end of a long tradition of analytic thinking on music.The present edition of the Dattilam contains the text with variant readings, and English translation facing the original and a commentary on the text to facilitate its comprehension.
Dr. Mukund Lath... |
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Wayne Howard |
Matralaksanam |
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| The Matralaksanam is one of the most important technical treatises belonging to the Kauthuma---Ranayaniya branch of the Samaveda. Because it deals not merely with textual and notational formation but with teh chants as they are actually sung, the tract stands apart from such works as the Puspasutra and the Pancavidhas
Wayne Howard b. 1942: Ph.D., Indiana University 1975 began his study of the Samaveda in 1970 when he started a fifteen month stay in India as a Fulbright Scholar. The first... |
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M.R. Bhat |
Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira (2 Vols.) |
$79.95 $55.97 |
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| This work is an encyclopaedia of astrological and other subjects of human interest. Whatever subjects the author takes up for delineation, whether it is eclipse, planetary movements, rainfall, cloud, architecture, water-divination or some other topic he discusses the same with thoroughness and mastery based on the knowledge of ancient sastras.
PROF. M.R. BHAT was a well known Samskrta scholar, teacher, poet and astrologer. He had served the cause of Samskrta learning and Indian culture for... |
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Govind Shastri |
Ishadidashopanishadah-Sankarabhashya (Ten Principal Upanisads) |
$31.99 $22.39 |
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| There are over one hundred Upanisads, of which, the following ten commented upon by Sankaracarya, are regarded as genuine and, therefore, most authoritative: Isa, Kena, Katha, Prasna, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya, Aitareya, Chandogya and Brhadaranyaka. The Isa-Upanisad teaches that both knowledge (vidya) and action (avidya) are necessary for attaining immortality. The Kenopanisad lays down that Brahman alone is the power that makes the senses function. The Kathopanisad contains the famous... |
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B.V. Raman |
Graha Aur Bhava Bal |
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Charudev Shastri |
Anuvad-Kala Athava Vagyavyavaharadarsha |
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Chakradhar Hans Nautiyal |
Brihad Anuvad Chandrika |
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Ramshankar Tripathi |
Kavyamimamsa of Rajasekhara |
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Lal Chand Vaidh |
Astangahrdyam of Vagbhat |
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Janardan Shastri Pandey |
Meghadutam of Kalidasa (Shastri ) |
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Phyllis Krystal |
Cutting the Ties That Bind (Workbook) |
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| This easy-to -use guidebook provides exercise and visualization techniques that can be used to learn how to "cut the ties that bind" us to old ituations, old behavour patterns, old habits. when we learn to connect with the "High C" or the Real Self, we are able to let go of the past and allow ourselves a new and brighter future. Letting go of old habits can be fun! This workbook has been used by therapists, groups, and people who are working with the techniques outlined bby... |
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K. K. Pathak |
An Introduction to Remedial Astrology |
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Jugal Kishore Mukherjee |
Mysteries of Death, Fate, Karma and Rebirth |
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Swami Sivananda |
Guru Bhakti Yoga |
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Swami Muktananda Paramahamsa |
Conversation with Swami Muktananda |
$10.00 $7.00 |
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| Collections with swami Muktananda is a collection of dialogues with the internationally renowned spiritual master Baba Muktananda during the early years of his teaching mission. In these pages Baba speaks with people of every occupation and philosophical persuasion statespeople and students businessmen and monks, cynics and saints alike. |
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Tr. with Comm. Karnamrita Dasa |
Chaitanya Upanishad |
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Ed. Kamalakanta Sukla |
Jaiminisutram of Mararsi Jamini with the Sanskrit & Hindi Commentaries |
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Kedardutt Joshi |
Jyotish mai Swar Vigyan ka Mahatwa (Hindi) |
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Vivekananda |
Complete Book of Yoga |
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K. Baskaran |
Astrologies of Kaalchakra |
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Ajai Kumar Chhawchharia |
Biography of Lord Shri Ram |
$38.89 $27.22 |
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| this is an anthology based story of ram. The book is in two parts- the first deals with Ram`s life story based on Tulsidas`works, vedas, Purans, Upnishads; and the second part comtains the full text and English translation of vairagya Sandipni, with exclusive verses culled from Tulsidas` works highighting the importance and glory of rRam`s Holy Name. this section has verses from Guru Granth Sahib and Ramattartaponishad. |
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Ramesh Menon |
Krishna Life and Song of the Blue God |
$24.99 $17.49 |
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| This book is a magical, unexpurgated life of Krishna, told in a spirit of bhakti for the modern reader.
Krishna: Life and Song of the Blue God opens on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, on the brink of war, when the Pandava warrior Arjuna suffers a crisis of courage and conscience. His divine cousin and charioteer, the Blue God, begins to expound the eternal dharma to him.
The exposition between two teeming armies is the Bhagavad-Gita, the Song of God. The story quickly shifts back to... |
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Kailash Pati Mishra |
Aesthetic Philosophy of Abhinavagupta |
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Kashi Nath Upadhyaya |
Early Buddhism and the Bhagavadgita |
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| This is a critical and philosophical analysis and assessment of the teachings of Buddha as Found in the Early Stratum of the Pali Canon and those of Lord Krsna as embodied in the Bhagvadgita. It is the first time that the foundational works of the two most important traditions of Indian thought have been brought together for comperative treatment.The Widely prevalent openion among scholars that Hindu thought did not have any significant contact with Pali Buddhism, might perhaps be one of the... |
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Charles Breaux |
Journey into Consciousness |
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| In the present book, the author introduces the TAntric methods of Tibetan Buddhism and draws correlations between this practice and the teachings of Carl Jung. In a clear, concise style, Breaux points out how many psychological truths are woven into the fabric of the Tantric doctrine. The language of the Tantra is visionary--abounding in symbols and metaphors produced spontaneously in the meditations of ancient yogis. At the heart of tantra is the experience of a divine power within the human... |
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Lord Chalmers |
Buddha`s Teachings |
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| Buddha`s Teachings contains a metrical English rendering of an important Buddhist work in Pali named `Sutta-Nipata` with the original text in Romanized version on the opposite page. The Pali Canon, as it has come down to us, is divided into three Pitakas or `baskets`, viz. Vinaya-Pitaka Sutta-Pitaka and Abhidhamma-Pitaka. The Sutta-Nipata, translated here, contains an ancient, probably the most ancient, part of the Sutta-Pitaka. It belongs to that portion of the Sutta-Pitaka which is named... |
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Eugene Watson Burlinghame |
Buddhist Parables |
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| Buddhist Parables contains more than two hundred similes, allegories, parables, fables and other illustrative stories and ancedotes found in the Pali Buddhist texts and said to have been employed, either by the Buddha himself or by his followers, to convey religious and ethical lessons and the lessons of common sense. Much of the material has been translated into English for the first time. The book is a collection of specimens of an unusually interesting type of literary composition, a... |
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H.N. Randle |
Fragments from Dinnaga |
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| This treatise, originally written as part of a study of logic in the Early Schools, contains seventeen fragments attributed to Dinnaga by Vacaspati Misra as also confirmed by the Tibetan version of the Pramana-samuccaya, the authorship of which is also attributed to Dinnaga.The fragments constitute the Sanskrit text transliterated in Roman script, translated and annotated into English. The text deals with the various topics of logic such as Perception, Inference, Valid Testimony, Analogy, Apoha... |
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P.V. Bobde |
Garland of Divine Flowers |
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| The present work is a collection of selected poems written by the 13th cent. poet-saint Sri Jnanesvara. His devotional Lyrics are called `Abhangas`. Herein one hundred and ten devotional poems of his called abhangas, have been selected for translation and study.
SAINT JNANESVARA, poet-saint of Maharashtra of the thirteen century A.D., besides being the author of Jnanesvari and Amrtanubhuava, the great literary-cum-philosophical works in Marathi, has also written a number of devotional lyrics... |
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T.A. Gopinath Rao |
Elements of Hindu Iconography (4 Pts.) |
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| This treatise is an early attempt for a diligent search into the origin, descriptions, symbols, mythological background, meaning and moral aims of Hindu images.The book is in two volumes, each volume again in two parts. Vol. I, Part I contains a long Introduction discussing among other things the origin of Hindu image worship in India, explanatory description of the terms employed in the work, Ganapati, Visnu and his major and minor avataras and manifestations, Garuda and Ayudha-Purushas or... |
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Barbora Stoller Miller |
Exploring India's Sacred Art |
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| Exploring India's Sacred Art presents a selection of Stella Kramrisch's influential essays, along with a biographical essay. The writings collected here emphasize the cultural and symbolic values of Indian art. The first section discusses the social and religious contexts of art. This is followed by essays on various forms of ritual art. The section entitled "The Subtle Body" is derived from her term for the form that underlies concrete shapes; it includes studies of literary and visual... |
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Carol Radcliffe Bolon |
Forms of the Goddess Lajja Gauri in Indian Art |
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| The artists creating images of Lajja Gauri drew on various ancient symbols of fortune, fertility, and life-force to communicate her power through their rich heritage of meanings. Because there are no texts to explain the figure, the study proceeds from the basis of the objects to derive their meaning. Carol Bolon charts the changes in the goddess`s form over a period of more than four centuries, including its possible adoption from tribal worship into Hindu temples, and brings a new... |
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Heinrich Zimmer, |
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization |
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| This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.
The notes Indologist Heinrich Zimmer born in Germany in... |
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K.A.N. Sastri |
Age of the Nandas and Mauryas |
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| The present work deals with the period c. 400-185 B.C. which saw grat changes in the political, economic and artistic life of India. Alexander, Chandragputa, Chanakya and Asoka dominate the period. We get vivid pictures of the outstanding events of the period--as of Alexander`s conquests and their influence on the cultural life of India, of the fusion of Brahma-Ksatra in the early Mauryan rule after the overthrow of the Nandas and of the rule of Asoka and his successors.The work consists of... |
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M.A. Stein, Tr. |
Kalhana`s Rajatarangini Vol.III |
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| Kalhana`s Rajatarangini is the most famous historical poem which records the oldest and fullest history of the legendary kings of Kashmir as well as gives accounts of the Kashmirian kings of the historical period. It consists of eight chapters and draws upon earlier sources, notably the Nilamata Purana.Sir Stein recognising the inestimable value of the only work of its kind, succeeded in publishing the critical edition of the text as early as in 1892.The interest of this treatise for Indian... |
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Magdalene Duckwitz, Eds. |
Ludwig Alsdorf and Indian Studies |
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| PROF.DR.LUDWIG ALSDORF (1904-1978) was probably the most versatile among Western Indologists of the 20th century.His Many-sided Vedic and Classical Sanskrit tests aswell as Buddhist Pali literature and jaina Alpabhram`sa in which he had specialised. His command of indian language from the dialects of the Asoka inscriptions to modern vernaculars like Hindi and Urdu which he combined with a living knowledge of the historical, religious, artistic and literary developments on the subcontinent, gave... |
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Manjari Ohala |
Aspects of Hindi Phonology |
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| The language whose phonology is described in this work is standard Hindi, i.e., the Hindi used in everyday casual speech by educated native speakers in cities such as Varanasi, Lucknow, Delhi etc., which is different from highly Sanskritized Hindi called literary style Hindi and highly Preso-Arabicized Urdu, a native speaker being one who has learnt the language as his first language. The author`s interest lies in accounting for the Hindi speakers` competence i.e., providing evidence for the... |
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Ganesh Vasudev Tagore |
Historical Grammar of Apabhramsa |
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| Apabhramsa forms the previous stage of modern Indo-Aryan languages like Hindi, Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali etc., its study is essential not only for its literature but also for the formation of modern Indian languages. The present volume is a chrono-regional study of nearly all the edited Apabhramsa texts available. The Apabhramsa texts were classified according to the place of their composition and the linguistic data was arranged in a chronological sequence and thus the space-time context of... |
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K.N. Jha |
Figurative Poetry in Sanskrit Literature |
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| This book is an attempt at resolving an important tangle, that of the utility of Figurative Poetry in Sanskrit Literature. In the shape of Sabdacitra and Ubhayacitra, connoting verbal juggleries and intellectual riddles this literature amuses vast shades of people, even today. Arthacitra is the real imagist poetry. Even old Sanskrit rhetoricians, Ananda, Abhinava and Panditaraja had a flash of its imagist appeal.The book is divided into seven chapters. Ch. I is introductory. It re-defines... |
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A.K. Warder, Ed. |
Indian Kavya Literature Vol. II |
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| It is multi-volume series work. The main pupose of this work is literary criticism, evaluating a great tradition of literature and to present comprehensive study of sanskrit literature. So far 6 volumes have been published. Each volume presents literature itself in successive periods of its development. This second volume in the series on Kavya Literature begins the description of the literature itself. The most original feature of the present study, as compared with other books in English on... |
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A.K. Warder, Ed. |
Indian Kavya Literature Vol. III |
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| Volume III in this series presents some of the most celebrated classical writers of India, including Sudraka, Visnusarman, Kalidasa, Pravarasena, Amaruka, Bharavi, Subandhu and Visakhadatta. A new analysis and appreciation of their poetry, drama and fiction is offered, in the light of Indian literary criticism, especially of the important critical works only recently recovered from scattered manuscripts. During the disastrous later middle ages (about the thirteenth century and later), most of... |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature Vol. IV |
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| It is multi-volume series work. The main pupose of this work is literary criticism, evaluating a great tradition of literature and to present comprehensive study of sanskrit literature. So far 6 volumes have been published. Each volume presents literature itself in successive periods of its development. This fourth volume describes in more detail the extensive literature preserved from the 7th and 8th centuries. These centuries are relatively rich in extant movels, including those of Bana,... |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature Vol. V |
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| It is multi-volume series work. the main pupose of this work is literary criticism, evaluating a great tradition of literature and to present comprehensive study of sanskrit literature. So far 6 volumes have been published. Each volume presents literature itself in successive periods of its development. Volume V of this study displays some of the riches and diversity of Indian culture in the ninth and tenth centuries. We have a novel in the bold or beautiful style by the fanciful Dhanapala and... |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature Vol. VI |
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| It is multi-volume series work. The main pupose of this work is literary criticism, evaluating a great tradition of literature and to present comprehensive study of sanskrit literature. So far 6 volumes have been published. Each volume presents literature itself in successive periods of its development. Volume VI continues the exploration of Indian Literature (Kavya) into the eleventh century, from Padmagupta and Atula to Hilhana and Manovinoda. In the eleventh century besides what seems to be... |
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P.V. Naganatha Sastry |
Kavyalankara of Bhamaha (Sastry) |
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| The aim of Bhamaha was to bring into existence a theoretical treatise on rhetoric as to facilitate a critical study of the subject with a view to serve as a practical handbook in the art and poetical composition. This work is not only to the advantage of the reader but also constitutes a legitimate act of homage to the first great rhetorician Bhamaha. It also includes a translation and notes of the original text. |
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C.R. Devadhar, Ed. |
Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa (Devadhar) |
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| The Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa is a tour-de-force of literary effort of a very high order, and is in fact the oriflamme of Indian Poetic genius. It is a gem among Kalidasa`s poetic works. It Sings of divine love and of the strife between Taraka`s demon hosts and godly hosts led by Kumar in which ultimately Asura Taraka is worsted. It is based on a leyena of the Sivapurana. |
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Devapoopathy Nadarajah |
Love in Sanskrit and Tamil Literature |
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| This book compares and contrasts the characters and Mother Nature depicted by the poets and dramatists in the treatment of love in sanskrit and Tamil literature.While both these literature accept the hero and the heroine as the main characters in the drama of love, others like the harlot who contributes to the "love triangle" the friends of the hero and the heroine as well as their relatives, dependants and a number of other people have their own role in providing the cultural and social... |
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M.R. Kale, Ed. |
Meghaduta of Kalidasa (Kale) |
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M.R. Kale, Ed. |
Mricchakatika of Sudraka |
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M.Ramakrishna Bhat |
Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira ( Vol.I) |
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| This work is an encyclopaedia of astrological and other subjects of human interest. Whatever subjects the author takes up for delineation, whether it is eclipse, planetary movements, rainfall, cloud, architecture, water-divination or some other topic he discusses the same with thoroughness and mastery based on the knowledge of ancient sastras.
PROF. M.R. BHAT was a well known Samskrta scholar, teacher, poet and astrologer. He had served the cause of Samskrta learning and Indian culture for... |
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M.R. Bhat |
Brhat Samhita of Varahamihira ( Vol.II ) |
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| This work is an encyclopaedia of astrological and other subjects of human interest. Whatever subjects the author takes up for delineation, whether it is eclipse, planetary movements, rainfall, cloud, architecture, water-divination or some other topic he discusses the same with thoroughness and mastery based on the knowledge of ancient sastras.
PROF. M.R. BHAT was a well known Samskrta scholar, teacher, poet and astrologer. He had served the cause of Samskrta learning and Indian culture for... |
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Charles Leslie, Ed. |
Asian Medical Systems |
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| Asian Medical Systems provide fascinating opportunities to observe directly practices that continue ancient scientific modes of thought, and to analyse the historical processes that meditate their relationship to modern science and technology. Three great traditions of medical science evolved during antiquity in the Chinese, Indian, and Mediterranean civilizations, all based on humoral conceptions of health and illness. Folk curers throughout the world continue to practice humoral medicine, but... |
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Hope.K. Fitz |
Intuition |
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| As the title indicates, in this book the overall position which has been presented is that intuition is a natural and necessary part of the "mind`s--life," i.e., the functioning of the human mind in the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding. However, even though intuition is natural and necessary for human knowledge and understanding, it is not viewed with favour by many thinkers around the world. The reason is that, in general, it has been taken to be a nondiscursive form or... |
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G.H.Johnston |
Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha by Asvaghosa (3 Pts. in One) |
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| The Buddhacarita is the most famous work of Asvaghosa, the well-known Buddhist poet-philosopher supposed to have been a contemporary of King Kaniska of the early 2nd century a.c. Of the twenty-eight cantos of the epic poem a little less than half is now available in the original, but complete translations in Chinese and Tibetan have been preserved.This edition consists of three parts. The first part contains the Sanskrit text and the second the translation of the first fourteen cantos, filling... |
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Ernst Steinkellner (Ed.) |
Contributions on Tibetan Language, History and Culture (Vol. I) |
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| The Csoma de Koros--Symposium on Tibetan, Central Asian and Buddhist studie held at Velm near Vienna in 1981 demonstrated the quickly expanding development of the more and more differentiated field of Tibetan Studies. Alongside of the traditionally established fields of Tibetological research, history, cultural, history, linguistics, and literature, the new presence of research in the original theoretical contributions of the Tibetans within their religious and philosophical culture was a... |
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G.P. Gupta (Ed.) |
Management by Consciousness |
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Suryanarayan Chaudhari (Ed. & Tr.) |
Jatakmala--Aryashur Virchit |
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Baijnath Mishra |
Hindi Kahaniyan |
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Nemichandra Shastri |
Chandra--Sanskrit Vyakaran |
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