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Frans Baartmans |
Holy Waters |
$38.99 $29.24 |
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| The author brings together 250 "happenings of the Sacred Waters" in a chain of symbolism. It links diverse aspects of the universe with our daily experiences, our human condition.
The author explores our willingness to acknowledge mythical thinking as an original constituent of our person. He finds that we are called upon to evolve in ourselves the myths and symbols of the sacred.
About the Author:Frans Baartmans (1936) is a member of the London-based International Society of Mill Hill.... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Homer and the Iliad - Sri Aurobindo |
$9.99 $7.49 |
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| This monograph briefly introduces two major epic poems about the famous Trojan war.
The Iliad was written by Homer a few centuries after the siege of Troy. In the 20th century, more than two millenia later, Sri Aurobindo, the great seer and poet of modern India, wrote Ilion.
In both epics the main quality abundantly displayed is heroism but seeds of the other qualities can be seen. |
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T.M.P. Mahadevan |
Hymns of Sankara |
$14.49 $10.87 |
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| These are the devotional poems and songs written by Shree Shankarachya, the great teacher of Advaita (non-dual) philosophy and the foundation of modern Vedanta. |
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Marc Riboud |
I for Imagine |
$48.49 $36.37 |
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| Using the alphabet as guide, this lyrical photo book journeys into times and places marked by dream, history and anticipation.The alphabet book becomes a playful dimension through which to view the powerful images of master photographer Marc Riboud. The alphabets here are pointers, at once sharpening and diffusing meaning, taking us through landscapes marked by memory and history. Delicate, whimsical, and inexorably political, these timeless images of war, love, work, revolution, and the... |
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Ramsingh Urveti |
I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail |
$38.49 $28.87 |
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| A well-known folk poem from 17th century England, 'I Saw a Peacock with a Fiery Tail' is a form of trick verse. The poem at first seems nonsensical, but given a break in the middle of each line begins to make perfect sense.In this pioneering visual exploration of I Saw a Peacock, Gond tribal artist Ramsingh Urveti and book designer Jonathan Yamakami use art and design in the service of language. Working together, revealing and concealing, they brilliantly mirror the shifting ways in which... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Ilion: An Epic in Quantitative Hexameters |
$11.49 $8.62 |
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| Sri Aurobindo had admired the hexameter - the chosen vehicle of Homer, Virgil and other great Greek and Latin poets - since his school days in England. He began work on Ilion - an epic in quantitative hexameters - in 1909 when he was an undertrial prisoner in Alipur Jail. Depicting the events leading up to the fall of Troy, this epic centres around the conflict between the mighty Greek Achilles and the warrior-queen Penthesilea.
A Deluxe edition with glossary of proper names and Greek and... |
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G. S. Pakle |
Image, Symbol and Myth in Sri Aurobindo's Poetry |
$43.99 $32.99 |
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| Beginning with a literary survey of the terms image, symbol, and myth, this critical study of Sri Aurobindo’s poetry sets his unique use of these devices in the context of English poetic development.
The author analyses Sri Aurobindo’s use of imagery and symbolism by examining in detail the entire range of his poetry. He concludes by placing Sri Aurobindo as one of the greatest symbolists of modern English poetry for the way he uses image, symbol and myth to represent not only past and... |
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Haripriya Rangarajan |
Images Of Varahi - An Iconographic Study |
$112.99 $84.74 |
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| The focus of this book is on goddess Varahi who is the atmasakti of Varaha responsible for lifting up the earth goddess from the Nether region. There are very few books available which are exclusively devoted to Varahi. In this book, the author presents in great detail the various aspects of Varahi including the icoographic features of the different forms as well as mantras and yantras associated with the worship of Varahi. The detailed information provided in the book is based on the ancient... |
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Medhananda |
Immortal Wisdom from ancient times in myths, tales and legends |
$11.99 $8.99 |
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| Medhananda, a German disciple who served as the librarian of the Sri Aurobindo Library for many years, was also a researcher and interpreter of the symbols in ancient cultures.
In this book he examines several myths, tales, and legends in the light of mystic experience. What he sees are not stories about nature gods or tribal histories of kings and warriors, but facts, events and powers of the inner life. For him Heracles is not the muscle-bound hunter and hero of Greek myth, but the seeker... |
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A.M. Shastri |
India as Seen in the Kuttanimata of Damodara Gupta |
$38.49 $28.87 |
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| The Kuttani-mata of Damodaragupta is one of the few works in the history of classical Sanskrit literature the time and locale of the composition whereof can be ascertained with a fair degree of certainty. We learn from Kalhana that Damodaragupta occupied a high position under the Karkota-Naga king Jayapida Vinayaditya who ruled over Kashmir in the closing years of the eighth and early years of the ninth centuries A.D. A critical study of the internal evidence indicates that the work was... |
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Rudrangshu Mukherjee |
India Then and Now |
$149.00 $111.75 |
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| India lives in many centuries. Discover the majesty and sweep of India's rich cultural and historical heritage, replete with the people, events and places that have contributed the chequered mosaic of India's past. Featured in this exquisite book, India Then and Now gives rare and never-before-seen vintage photographs from some of the finest collections across the world. The vibrant and ever-changing cultural landscape of contemporary India is also featured in a series of photographs,... |
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Reginald Massey |
India's Kathak Dance |
$19.49 $14.62 |
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A.K. Bhattacharyya |
Indian and East Asian Art and Iconography |
$187.99 $140.99 |
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| The collection of studies of Indian and East Asian Art and Iconography is a considerable assemblage of essays. Though it deals with selected topics relating to iconographic and archaeological art, it touches, sporadically though, almost the entire range of Indian art-history and salient periods of East Asia. Nonetheless, the treatment although and documented. Though by character the studies are not an all-inclusive one, they afford a glimpse of the artendeavours of most... |
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Prasanna Kumar Acharya |
Indian Architecture According to Manasara-Silpasastra - Manasara Series 2 |
$8.49 $6.37 |
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| This volume entitled Indian Architecture according to Manasara-Silpasastra is the second in the series of Professor P.K. Acharya's Manasara Series. Here he has discussed exhaustively the question, waht is Manasara? An understanding of this term Manasara is essential; for buildings are the yard-sticks by which the achievements and standards of living of bygone ages can be correctly evaluated. But this term defies elucidation; for it not only embraces all activities connected with the... |
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George Watt |
Indian Art at Delhi-1903 |
$25.00 $18.75 |
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| The volume was first published as a Catalogue and Guide to the Indian Art Exhibition held at Delhi `to coincide with the Durbar of 1902-03`. The volume is a unique work of documentation of nineteenth-century Indian craftsmanship. The text is enriched with graphic representation of rare specimens of Indian artistry. Its usefulness as `a gazetteer and an ethnographical dictionary` makes it invaluable for the students engaged in research of the history of craft and industry in India. George Watt... |
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Shovana Narayan |
Indian Classical Dances |
$224.49 $168.37 |
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| India is a fascinating country with plurality of ethnicity, cultures, religions and philosophy. Unsurprisingly this plurality extends to the arena of Unsurprisingly this plurality extends to the arena of classical dances having the distinction of being the only country with eight recognized classical dance forms, all of which are bound in the single thread of spirituality and philosophy radiating the fragrance of 'Indianness'. Though many books on Indian classical dances are available, this... |
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R.C. Mehta |
Indian Classical Music & Gharana Tradition |
$50.49 $37.87 |
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| This book presents insightful reflections on different aspects of Indian music - its roots, philosophy, growth, history, guru-shisya parampara, gharanas, contemporary scene and a glimpse of the coming decades. Analyzing the impact of Indian thought and philosophy on Indian classical music, it makes an appraisal of the contemporary scenario of Hindustani classical music. Taking a close look at tradition and style of Agra Charana, with special focus on the rich repertoire of its ragas and... |
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Donald A. Mackenzie |
Indian Fairy Stories |
$5.49 $4.12 |
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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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Joseph Jacobs |
Indian Fairy Tales |
$15.99 $11.99 |
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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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A. K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature (Vol. VII in 2 pts.) The wheel of time |
$110.83 $83.13 |
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| This volume on the twelfth and thirteenth centuries starts with Vidyakara`s retrospect over anonymous poets (named ones having mostly found their places in earlier volumes). After some smaller anthologies a few novels and Mankhaka`s mythological epic we come to a historical epic. History is the most substantial source of matter for literature in the volume.That might seem to contrast with Vol. Vi, but as literature its aim is always are, not facts which narrows the gap.
Harihara survive... |
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A.K. Warder |
Indian Kavya Literature : Vol. V |
$44.99 $33.74 |
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| Volume V of this study displays some of the riches and diversity of Indian culture in the ninth and tenth centuries. Most of the authors discussed aimed at bold expression, Yogesvara in describing peasant life and Vasukalpa in fanciful verses on such topics as wild landscapes and birds. Rajasekhara is better known, for his forceful expressions in plays, and Bhallata, for his satirical verses on bureaucracy. The epics of Abhinanda, Ratnakara, Sivasvamin, Buddhaghosa, Svayambhu and Puspadanta,... |
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A.K. Warder, Ed. |
Indian Kavya Literature Vol. II |
$16.39 $12.29 |
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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 |
$21.94 $16.46 |
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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 |
$22.22 $16.67 |
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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 |
$38.61 $28.96 |
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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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