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Chandra Rajan |
Kalidasa--The Loom of Time |
$16.49 $12.37 |
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| This volume offers, in a brilliant new translation, Kalidasa's two most famous works--the play Sakuntala and the long poem Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger). Also included is Rtusamharam (The Gathering of the Seasons) a much-neglected poem that deserves to be known better. Taken together these works provide a window to the remarkable world and work of a poet of whom it was said: 'Once, when poets were counted, Kalidasa occupied the little finger; the ring finger remains unnamed true to its name;... |
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Sivadasa |
The Five-And-Twenty Tales of the Genie |
$6.94 $5.21 |
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| This delightful collection of tales centres around the encounter of the fabled emperor Vikramaditya with a vetala, a genie, who inhabits a corpse. Vikramaditya is told twenty-four tales by the genie who ends each with a riddle. The twenty-fifth tale in the collection is the epilogue to the narrative.The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie (Vetalapancavinsati) was set down by Sivadasa around the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries CE. there are no biographical details available for Sivadasa and... |
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Chandra Rajan (Tr.) |
The Pancatantra of Visnu Sarma |
$16.39 $12.29 |
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| Tradition ascribes this fabulous work to Visnu Sarma whose existence has not been conclusively established. Faced with the challenge of educating three unlettered princes, to awaken their intelligence, Visnu Sarma evolved a unique pedagogy--for his aim was to teach the princes how to think not what to think--and it was thus that these entertaining and edifying stories came to be composed.Chandra Rajan, a noted Sanskrit scholar, has based her translation on the Purnabhadra recension (AD 1199).... |
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A.R. Natarajan |
Jagadguru Sri Chandrasekhara Bharati Mahaswami |
$5.28 $3.96 |
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Sudhamahi Regunathan (Ed.) |
Song of the Spirit : The World of Sacred Music |
$28.49 $21.37 |
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| Contents: Introduction The presence of the sacred/Sima Sharma Music/Hazrat Innayat Khan ‘The man of my heart’/Selina Thielemann The language of music/Narayana Menon Metaphysical communication/Sehdev Kumar The golden chain of Orpheus—Part one/Joscelyn Godwin The golden chain of Orpheus—Part two/Joscelyn Godwin Music and religion/Ashok D. Ranade Offering with the wind/Muthusamy Varadarajan Silence in Music/Gopal Sharman Going south/Arlie Neskahi Sacred... |
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V.K. Krishna Prasad |
Caranatic Music Reader in Western Staff Notation (7 Volumes) |
$56.49 $42.37 |
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| This Carnatic Music reader series introduces a systematic study of Carnatic Music with the help of western staff notation. The series has been designed with the beginner in mind so that he can learn to play the lessons on western instrument like guitar, piano, saxophone, violin etc. and midi instruments with minimum effort. All the exercises are presented in western staff notation, letter notation and conventional carnatic music letter notation. The series contains a basic introduction to... |
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Bhagwant Sahai (Ed.) |
Recent Researches in Indian Art and Iconography |
$160.49 $120.37 |
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| This collection of fifty-one articles brings to light the recent trends in the study of sculptural art, iconography and architecture and focuses on the different aspects of Indian Art. These papers are contributed by the eminent scholars expert in their fields from different parts of India and presented in honour of in honour of Dr. C.P. Sinha, former Director of the prestigious K.P. Jayaswal Research Institute, Patna. The papers, written in wide and expressive style are supported with... |
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Theodore Stcherbatsky |
Conception of Buddhist Nirvana of Stcherbatsky |
$21.94 $16.46 |
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| The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana provides an English Translation of Nagarjuna`s chapters on Causality and Nirvana and Chandrakiriti`s comprehensive commentary on the Sanskrit Text and presents a rare exposition of the Madhyamaka Dialectic. The book is edited by Jaideva Singh with an exhaustive introduction, containing the historical background of the Madhyamaka philosophy, a lucid exposition of its merciless logic, an admirable presentation of its uncanny metaphysics and a systematic account... |
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K.M. Suresh |
Pancatantra (2 Vols) |
$266.67 $200.00 |
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| Contents: Vol. I Foreword. I. Pre and Proto history 1. A rare find of engravings on a Neolithic tool from Hasoodi/A. Sundara. 2. Exploration at Timmalapur district Bellary Karnataka/Dillip Kumar Khamari. 3. Ethno history primitive tribes and prehistoric primitives in Tamil Nadu/N. Devasahayam. 4. Story of Harappan discovery/Madhuri Sharma. 5. Harappan minor arts and crafts/Deo Prakash Sharma. 6. Proto historic copper/bronze anthropomorphs fresh observations/Krishna Kumar. 7. Russet... |
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Sudhamahi Regunathan |
Song of the Spirit... |
$34.49 $25.87 |
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| Among the many forms in which human spirit has tried to express its innermost yearnings and perceptions, music is perhaps the most universal. Song of the spirit is an anthology of twenty one scholarly essays on Sacred Music that arises from deep rooted and ancient traditions. Among the galaxy of the contributors are Hazrat Innayat Khan, Selina Thielemann, Joscelyn Godwin, Ashok Ranade, Radhika Srinivasan, Lokesh Chandra, Muthusamy Varadarajan, Indira Menon, Mark Balfour etc. Short Bio-graphies... |
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