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Robert E. Svoboda |
The Greatness of Saturn |
$12.49 $7.49 |
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| The Greatness of Saturn allows you to experience directly the healing
power of one of the world's greatest myths.
The telling of mythic stories has always been a powerful form of therapy, bring healing to people facing adversity. The Greatness of Saturn is such a therapeutic myth, told and retold through many centuries. Taken from the Vedic tradition, it honors the planet Saturn, who personifies time, limitation, loss, and all forms of adversity.
No person goes through life without... |
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Donald A. Mackenzie |
Indian Fairy Stories |
$5.49 $3.29 |
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| These stories will enlighten and entertain readers who wish to go back and remember things as they were. These are stories of speaking animals, fairies and beasts, of princes and princesses, of love, happiness and sometimes extreme sorrow. They teach us to have a moral code acceptable not only to man but also to nature.
This book is an anthology of some of the best stories ever produced on the Indian subcontinent.
The stories here are presented in a style that all ages can... |
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Andrew Harvey |
Perfume of the Desert |
$11.95 $7.17 |
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| In this text, poet and mystic Andrew Harvey teams with photographer Eryk Hanut to bring the esoteric world of Sufism to life. Harvey's translations of Rumi, Kabir, and Rabia are paired with a compilation of Sufi stories, sayings, folk tales and jests.
"Here is a book on Sufism that conveys the love and passion that belongs to this path. Andrew Harvey speaks with the language of lovers, and his book carries the invisible perfume for which the soul longs".
Renowned for his inspiring... |
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Neela Subramaniam |
Birbal Stories |
$5.99 $3.59 |
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| Features the popular stories of clever Birbal. |
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Steven Darian |
Ganges in Myth and History |
$18.99 $11.39 |
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| No river has kindled Man's imagination like the Ganges. From its icy
origins high in the Himalayas, this sacred river flows through the holy cities
and the great plains of northern India to the Bay of Bengal. In a country where
the red heat of summer inspires prayer for the coming monsoon, the life-giving
waters of the Ganges have assumed legendary powers in the form of the Hindu
goddess Ganga, the source of creation and abundance. Pilgrims flock to her
shores to cleanse and purify... |
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Pt. S.M. Natesa Sastri |
Hindu Feasts Fasts and Ceremonies |
$16.99 $10.19 |
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| The folklore of a country is never so well known even by the folk of the country itself. Moreover there is always a young generation growing up which is waiting to be instructed in it by the easiest and widest possible means.
This book is a most excellent work in its collecting, arranging and recording, in a concise and easily assimilable form, some of the more noteable tales, traditions, customs, beliefs, and ceremonies of the Hindu culture. For a general work-a-day knowledge of the Hindus... |
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Bharati Sukhatankar |
The Balvihar Book of Picture Parables |
$4.95 $2.97 |
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| These Picture Parables are not original stories. They have been taken from traditional sources and from folk tales the world over. The stories are straight and simple and our attempt has been to "tell" not "teach", as Gurudev used to say.
Many of the parables have been sent to us by one of Gurudev's oldest devotees, Urmila, from Germany. All the stories have been adapted to the Indian mileu and have appeared in the Bal Vihar issues from 1999-2001. |
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Benjamin Preciado Solis |
The Krsna Cycle in the Puranas |
$13.89 $8.33 |
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| Krsna is one of the best loved figures in Indian religion and literature. The stories of his life and deeds occupy a central place in Indian literary traditions down to our day.
The present work deals with the main themes and motifs found in the Krsna legend up to the 10th century.In the first chapter the Vedic antecedents to the Krsna figure are examined, as well as some of the views that claim that Krsna is found in the Vedic hymns.
The second chapter deals with the first historical... |
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W.J. Wilkins |
Hindu Mythology |
$12.99 $7.79 |
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| Hindu mythology is a fascinating world of legends and stories centred around a sophisticated structure and hierarchy of deities and their worship. The many gods and goddesses, depicted in myriad forms in art and literature, constitute a sacred and complex subject of interesting study.
The book, 'Hindu Mythology' attempts to offer a systematic and complete account of the names and character of the deities of Hinduism and their relationship with one another. The book, typed afresh, studies the... |
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Sunita Pant Bansal |
Myths and Legends of the World |
$21.95 $13.17 |
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| Myths are stories of the gods and of god-like heroes. They tell of
beginning and ends, creation and destruction, life and death. They explain the
how the why of life. Heroes are heroines, monsters and villains, all come
together in these tale of courage, daring and romance from all over the world.
Readers will meet popular heroes like Roland and Perseus, as well as the
lesser-known characters ssuch as Danko and Hine-Moa, in stories from countries
as far apart as New Zealand and... |
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Joseph Jacobs |
Indian Fairy Tales |
$10.99 $6.59 |
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| Especially selected and retold to offer the best of India, these stories speak of snow-capped mountains, meandering rivers, the oceans, the blue heavens, the exquisite flora and fauna, and characters from paupers to princes. The tales of courage and sacrifice, love and adventure, magic and death offer both spellbinding entertainment as well as answers to fundamental questions of life.
The majority of tales in this volume have been known in the West in some form or another, and the... |
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Dwijendra Nath Neogi |
Sacred Tales of India |
$8.49 $5.09 |
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| Contents of the Book:
The Divine Brothers
Snatched from Death
By Itu's Favourite. The Bride of Yamav. The Godess who Devoured Elephants.
The Slayer of Kangsa.
Chand, the unbeliever.
The Gift of the Ascetic.
The Sun's Twin Sons.
The Consequences of Generosity.
A Brahman's Ban.
The Pir's Power.
The Gander-eater.
The Fatal Oath.
Sactificed to Varuna.
Joyabati- the Gift of Joya.
Saved from the Cat.
The Wire Who Used to Eat the First Morsel.
The Wife Who... |
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Christine Devin |
Hanuman or The Way of the Wind |
$10.99 $6.59 |
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| This marvellous story of the great leap of the monkey-god over the sea to Lanka is recounted by Valmiki, the famous author of the original Ramayana. This is followed by several episodes from the epic in which Hanuman plays a crucial role.
An extract from the Tulsidas’s Ramayana has also been added as well as notes on this poet. The introduction explores the symbolic meaning of Hanuman, a deity much alive in Indian minds even today. Notes are provided. |
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M.M. Higgins |
Jatakamala or A Garland of Birth Stories |
$10.94 $6.56 |
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| A selection of Jataka Stories arranged for the young and enjoyed by the older alike.
Jataka means 'previous births' and mala 'garland'. This is the literally the stringing together of the stories of the previous lives of the Bodhisattva (afterwards the Buddha). The object of composing the Birth stories into verses is to teach the doctrine of Universal... |
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Acharya Ratnananda |
Tales for the Young and the Old |
$19.95 $11.97 |
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| All along the ramparts of time, our sages and seers have evolved noble guidelines in human relationships through tales and parables.
Stories have always attracted the young and the old and the reservoir of ancient Indian wisdom contains thousands of stories which offer solutions to most of the modern day problems.
From the Book:
Long, long ago and far away, there lived a great sage called Maharishi Chandilya. He had a large number of disciples. Every one of them was keen on... |
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Dr. Hebbale K. Nagesh |
Glimpses of Karnataka Folklore |
$22.22 $13.33 |
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| The great epics like Ramayana and Mahabaratha are known by each and every scholar and reader, even illiterate people and village folk know of these two epics- more often than not, they know the stories very well. But in India, regional folk epics remain largely unexplored. In South India, especially in Karnataka, numerous epics exist and yet not one can be placed within the same realm of familiarity as the Ramayana and Mahabaratha. Karnataka is not short in variety of cultural complexities,... |
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W. Carew Hazlitt |
An Encyclopaedia of Faiths and Folklore |
$138.99 $83.39 |
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| It is very rare indeed that a book on popular antiquities or any other analogous topic so commands itself to the public, and so maintains its rank and estimation, as to continue to be the recognized source of reference in successive editions during more that a century and a half.
This work is a dictionary of national beliefs, superstitions and popular customs, past and current, with their classical and foreign analogues, described and illustrated. The governing aim herein was to accumulate and... |
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Christine Devin |
The Descent of the Ganges |
$9.99 $5.99 |
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| Recounted by Valmiki, this is the wonderful story of how Ganga, Daughter of the Snows, descended on earth to purify mankind. The symbolism of the ancient myth is as powerful today as ever.
The book is illustrated with photos of famous rock carvings of Mahabalipuram. Notes on Valmiki are provided. |
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Alice Elizabeth Dracott |
Simla Village Tales |
$6.99 $4.19 |
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| One cannot sojourn for long in the East without hearing strange stories, all
of which are vouched for by the natives. Most would make one's blood run
cold, but they are irresistibly fascinating. Filled with pathos but almost
always showing that every cloud has its silver lining, these tales carry the
reader into the mythical past that was India.
The majority of these tales have the raw transparency of folk art, whilst
others are fashinoned with uncommon... |
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Capt. W F O'Connor |
Folk Tales from Tibet |
$10.99 $6.59 |
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| Folk Tales from Tibet is a collection of some of the most exquisite stories from Tibet recorded by Captan W F O'Connor.
These tales were collected during his tenure as secretary and interpreter with the Lhasa Mission of 1904. They were compiled at a time when the western world knew little or nothing about this mystical and exotic country. |
