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Ranbir Singh |
Jaisalmer: Art, Architecture & Tourism |
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| The cultural life of the people of Jaisalmer is fascinating. This book is based largely on the personal experiences, narratives of the local people gathered during several visits in addition to references drawn from historical records about Jaisalmer. I owe gratitude to Mr. Anupam Mishra of Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi and Shri Bhagwan Das Maheshwari, the great old man of Jaisalmer who have been not only instrumental in attracting my attention to Jaisalmer but also helping me in gathering... |
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Rana Dasgupta |
Solo |
$25.49 $19.12 |
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| The highly anticipated new novel from the critically acclaimed author of Tokyo cancelled. Solo recounts the life and daydreams of a reclusive one hundred year-old man from Bulgaria. Before the man lost his sight, he read this story in a magazine: a group of explorers came upon a community of parrots speaking the language of a society that had been wiped out in a recent catastrophe. Astonished by their discovery, they put the parrots in cages and sent them home so that linguists could record... |
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Onkar Rahi |
Khajuraho Unknown |
$384.99 $288.74 |
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| Khajuraho Unknown is a book about Khajuraho temple- complex, a world heritage, which presents before us sculpture as manifestation of refinement rekindling creative fire all around us. Khajuraho art has the lucidity of structure with passionate unrest, riotous activity and a preference for vast, wild and the predominantly picturesque. The sculptors not only have portrayed individual figures but turned sculpture to compositions with innumerable legends invading the stones of Khajuraho... |
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Aditya Arya |
History in the Making: The Visual Archives of Kulwant Roy |
$256.49 $192.37 |
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| Press photographer Kulwant Roy’s prints and negatives remained forgotten in boxes for over twenty-five years after his death, until their inheritor Aditya Arya, a photographer himself, began cataloguing them.
In the process, he discovered a rare and valuable visual archive, including many unpublished pictures, of a momentous era in India’s history. Some of the rare visual documentation includes the Muslim League meetings, INA trials, the signing of the Indian Constitution, as well as... |
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Rekha Rao |
Therapeutics in Indian Sculptures: Ranki Vav-Patan |
$80.49 $60.37 |
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| India is a land known for its antiquity. Its heritage is expressed in its cultural and architectural traditions, which have transcended time and space to remain alive and appropriate even in the present. Gujarat in western India is a place with many historical monuments, the step-wells; especially the one at a place called “Patan” is truly a store-house of the rich cultural and religious heritage of India with stunning architectural grandeur. Ranki Van also called Rani-ki-Vav; the step-well... |
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S.D. Trivedi |
Myths and Legends in Indian Art |
$189.49 $142.12 |
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| The book starts with an Introduction discussing the concept and role of myths and legends in Indian Art. It talks about the centrality of myths and legends in ancient Indian literature, folklore and popular imagination of the ordinary people.
It traces the essential role that myths played in the development of Hindu cosmology and cosmogony, the flights of fancy of the early Aryan mind and the efforts of Vedic and post-Vedic poets and thinkers to rationalize unexplained phenomenon and man's... |
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K.K. Chakravarty |
River Valley Cultures of India |
$160.49 $120.37 |
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| River Valleys have been the sites of the oldest human settlements and consequently the cradles of civilization as well as the repositories of the cultural milestones of the mankind. In India, rivers have played a predominant role in the temporal, cultural and spiritual life of the people through the ages. Several civiliza-tions and associated multi-cultures have evolved around them. Many of them have disappeared leaving trails behind them; others continue in fully and partly transformed... |
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Mitali Chatterjee |
Education in Ancient India: From Literary Sources of the Gupta Age |
$30.99 $23.24 |
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| Mitali Chatterjee’s study of education in ancient India focuses chiefly on over two hundred years: ad 319-550, of the reign of Imperial Guptas, which has been variantly described as the Golden Age, Periclean Age, or even the Age of Hindu Renaissance. It was a time when literature, arts, and sciences flourished in a degree beyond the ordinary. These achievements are inconceivable without a well-evolved system of education. With its theme like ‘education’, covering such a large... |
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Rajendra Tandon |
How to stay Healthy with Homoeopathy |
$24.99 $18.74 |
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| How to stay Healthy with Homoeopathy is the most uncomplicated manual on homoeopathic treatment ever designed. It is an easy-to-refer book for the householder and for the health conscious busy executive and a simple guide for parents who do not want their children to suffer from severe side effects of medicines normally administered.
Homoeopathic drugs, if correctly chosen, have no side effects. It is a book on healthcare for the cost conscious. Quality homoeopathic drugs are made in India... |
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Dolkar Khangkar |
Tibetan Medicine: The Buddhist Way of Healing |
$17.49 $13.12 |
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| Tibetan medicine is a traditional form of healing which basically employs natural materials (herbs, minerals, precious stones, metals) for compounding medicines. Buddhist healing is intimately linked with Buddhist philosophy. Initially, monks were initiates into the art of healing, but later family lineages developed till eventually it became a community service.
Today it is practised by a handful of authorised amchis (doctors) only. Read about this fascinating system which links ill health... |
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Gaston Saint-Pierre |
The Keys to Healing |
$14.49 $10.87 |
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| Learn to ease the stress and tension of your life through aligning your energy to the laws regulating the universe. Over the last 30 years Gaston Saint-Pierre has developed the Metamorphic Technique, a simple approach to self-healing and personal development that draws widely on Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity and Western esoteric literature. It acts as a catalyst to patterns of energy (also known as the life force), gently enabling you to transform your life and move from who you are... |
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Siddartha Mukherjee |
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer |
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| In The Emperor of All Maladies, Siddhartha Mukherjee, doctor, researcher and award-winning science writer, examines cancer with a cellular biologist's precision, a historian's perspective, and a biographer's passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with - and perished from - for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience and perseverance, but also of hubris, arrogance and misperception,... |
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Dr. Shiv Dua |
Defeat Inguinal Hernia |
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| A much awaited volume on the what & hows of inguinal hernia with detailed information on its management with alternative therapies. The work is thoroughly complete accounting for the most modern concepts & treatment options available.About the Author:Dr. Shiva Dua, M.A., D.I.Hom., H.M.D.(London) is a well known name in the literary circles of Homoeopathy. His four books, “Practioners Guide to Gall Bladder and Kidney Stone’, ‘Oral Diseases’, Cervical Spondylosis-... |
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Henry Clarke Warren |
Buddhism in Translations |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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| Here is a work that aims at presenting `different ideas and conceptions` which are `found in Pali writings`. In the words of henry Clarke Warren, the author of the volume: `Translation has been the means employed as being the most effectual... The selections of the first chapter are on the Buddha; next follow those which deal chiefly with the Doctrine; while others concerning the Order and secular life constitute the closing chapter of the book.` The uniqueness of the volume lies in the... |
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Subodh Kapoor |
The Philosophy of Saivism |
$59.49 $44.62 |
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| Saivism, may be defined as the setting aside of the triune equality of Brahma, Vishnu, and Siva, and the merging of the former two Gods in the God - Siva. But it is also more than this. It is supreme being, infinite, eternal, an exempt from subjection to the law of ultimate absorption into the universal spirit. Rudra appears quite early in the Veda with a
well-recognized and well-marked personality of his own. He is an important
deity, whose anger is to be dreaded and whose favour is to be... |
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Jaideva Singh |
Pratyabhijnahrdayam: The Secret of Self-Recognition |
$20.49 $15.37 |
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| The Paratrisika (or Paratrimsika) is a short Tantra which has been held in the highest esteem by Kashmir Saivism or Trika. After Somananda, Abhinavagupta has written two commentaries on it, a short one (Laghuvrtti) and an extensive one the present Vivarana which is presented here for the first time in an English translation. The Paratrisika Vivarana is one of the most fascinating but also most difficult texts of the Kashmir Saiva School, and of the mystical philosophical literature of India as... |
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Jaideva Singh (Tr.) |
Paratrisika Vivarana by Abhinavagupta |
$22.49 $16.87 |
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| This book is one of the most fascinating but also most difficult texts of the Kashmir Saiva School, and of theystical philosophical literature of India as a whole. The Paratrisika is a short Tantra which has been held in the highest esteem by Kashmir Saivism or Trika. This translantion of Abhinavagupta`s masterpiece will not only be a milestone in the study of Kashmir Saivism, but it also make available one of the major mystical texts of the Indian tradition to readers interested in philosophy... |
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Prasanna Kumar Acharya |
Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture - Manasara Series 7 |
$153.99 $115.49 |
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| Contents: Foreword Preface The order of Roman characters and the method of transliteration adopted List of illustration Text of the encyclopaedia Appendices: A sketch of Sanskrit treatise on architecture A list of historical architects with short Notes on their works Bibliography Index to modern architectural terms with their corresponding Sanskrit equivalents. P.K. Acharya's An Encyclopaedia of Hindu Architecture is a comprehensive work on the technical terminology, now... |
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Pratapaditya Pal |
The Jain Art From India |
$87.49 $65.62 |
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| This book was published in conjunction with the exhibition The Peaceful Liberators: Jain Art from India, which was organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It is the most comprehensive presentation to date of the art-work emerging from the Jain religion. The Jains, despite their rigorous ideal of non-attachment to the physical world, have produced a cultural heritage paradoxically regal in its imaginative splendor and its physical realization.
The approximately 120 works in this... |
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Dan Arnold |
Buddhists, Brahmins, and Belief: Epistemology in South Asian Philosophy of Religion |
$31.99 $23.99 |
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| In Buddhists, brahmins, and belief, Dan arnold examines how the Brahmanical tradition of Purva Mimamsa and the writings of the seventh-century Buddhist Madhyamika philosopher Candrakirti challenged dominant Indian Buddhist views of epistemology. Arnold retrieves these two very different but equally important voices of philosophical dissent, showing them to have developed highly sophisticated and cogent critiques of influential Buddhist epistemologists such as Dignaga and Dharmakirti. His... |
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Ananda K. Coomaraswamy |
Hinduism and Buddhism |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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| In this work, the author sets forth his ideas with his usual depth and insight to discard the wrong notions about the divergence in the basic philosophies of these two major religions that have been propounded by European scholars and by Indians trained in our modern skeptical and evolutionary modes of thought.
In this book, the author has tried to show that the essentials of these religions are the same and form what may be called as the Philosophic Perini’s or the Eternal Philosophy. His... |
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Jaideva Singh |
Para-trisika-Vivarana |
$26.99 $20.24 |
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| This book is one of the most fascinating but also most difficult texts of the Kashmir Saiva School, and of theystical philosophical literature of India as a whole. The Paratrisika is a short Tantra which has been held in the highest esteem by Kashmir Saivism or Trika. This translantion of Abhinavagupta`s masterpiece will not only be a milestone in the study of Kashmir Saivism, but it also make available one of the major mystical texts of the Indian tradition to readers interested in philosophy... |
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Biswanarayan Shastri |
Kalikapurane Murtivinirdesah |
$13.89 $10.42 |
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| Kalikapurane Murtivinirdesah, ninth in the series of the Kalamulasastra programme is a compilation of about 550 verses from the Kalika Purana which give physical description of a number of gods, goddesses, and demi-gods etc.
While some of them are simply conceptual, others are represented in stone and metallic sculptures.
About the Author:
Dr. Biswanarayan Shastri an Indologist of international repute, studied Sanskrit language, literature and Indian Philosophy including the Buddhist in... |
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Shanti Lal Nagar |
Giradhara Ramayana |
$37.99 $28.49 |
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| The Ramayana or the story of Rama, has been dominating the Indian religious scene from the time immemorial. Before composition of the work of poetic excellence by the sage Valmiki, who is considered to be the pioneer of the same, the story was available in fragments in different parts of the country. Though the sage Valmiki was inspired by the sage Narada for composing the Ramayana but Valmiki had to collect several fragments of the story from various regions of the country.
Once the story... |
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Michael Lockwood |
Mythicism |
$29.99 $22.49 |
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| The expression 'Mythicism' has come to be used to identify the negative side of the debate whether 'Jesus of Nazareth' was or was not a historical person. This book examines five major types of challenges to Jesus' historicity: I. In the first Section, Robert M. Price's article, "New Testament Narrative as Old Testament Midrash", and Thomas L. Brodie's book, Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus, reviewed by Rene Salm, reveal a layer of fictional mimetic dependence of many... |
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