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Damodar Reddy |
A Bouquet for My Master |
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| A collection of poems in various metres.
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Janina Stroka |
A Captive of Her Love: Letters and Paintings of Janina Stroka |
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| This book is a collection of letters, poems and paintings by a Polish disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother.
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V. Murugesu |
A Commentary on Sri Aurobindo's Poem Ilion |
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| The blurb states regarding Sri Aurobindo's poem Ilion that it "ranks as one of the world's masterpieces among heroic epics. A magnificent composition in hexameter, unique in English poetry, its lines carry a musical melody uplifting the reader to heights of enchanting ecstasy. Its nobility and grandeur are brought out in beautiful imagery and exquisite poetical language abounding in figures of speech.
The characters in the poem are of a high calibre and the references to Greek Mythology add... |
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Suman Pandit |
A Comprehensive Study Vastu For Workplace |
$14.49 $10.87 |
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| Most of us spend at least eight hours a day at work and it makes good sense to arrange our working environment so that we harness the energies all around us. Vastu's efficacy in helping oeople to achieve success in business and profession is well recognized today. This book helps in an understading and application of Vastu principles for creation of workplaces which promote better productivity, profitabbility and success. This book offers Vastu solutions and tips for every business... |
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Gaurinath Sashtri |
A Concise History of Classical Sanskrit Literature |
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| This book contains an elaborate account of all branches of Classical Sanskrit Literature on the basis of literary, epigraphical and numismatical sources. In 23 chapters, each chapter dealing with a particular topic arranged chronologically. Chapter I-V are on the Epics, Puranas, Tantras, Post-Epic and Inscriptional poetry. Chr. VI deals with Early Buddhist works in Sanskrit. Chrs. VII-XII are related to the Court Epics, Drama, Poetry, Historical Writings, Prose and Campu literature. Chrs.... |
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Dr. (Mrs.) M. Vijay Lakshmi |
A critical study of Sangita makaranda of Narada |
$28.99 $21.74 |
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| The book presents an elaborate and interesting study of music as treatise by Narada. It has all the special features of the original work. It is both comparative and critical. Its main feature is the treatment of ragas categorizing them as male, female and neuter. A scholarly work of definitions, descriptions and comments on all the essentials of music contributed by other ancient reputed authors from Bharata to Sharangdeva.About the Author:Dr. (Mrs.) M. Vijay Lakshmi, is Lecturer in the... |
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S.Kapoor |
A Dictionary of Hinduism |
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| Hinduism, one of the great religions of the world, is the major religion of India, where nearly 85 percent of the population is classified as Hindu. Hinduism has developed over about 4,000 years and has no single founder or creed; rather, it consists of a vast variety of beliefs and practices. In its diversity, Hinduism hardly fits most Western definitions of religion; rather, it suggests commitment to or respect for an ideal way of life, known as dharma.
A Dictionary of Hinduism is the... |
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Sitaramayya |
A Dual Power of God: Sri Aurobindo's Satyavan and Savitri (A Brief Study) |
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| Without the Conscious-Soul, Prakriti cannot act; without the Nature-Soul, Purusha must remain unmanifest. This philosophy of 'dual power' becomes an experienced reality in Sri Aurobindo's epic poem Savitri.
Savitri presents a Conquest of Death. The role of Satyavan and Savitri - we cannot think of one without the other - as the Dual Power of God in the great endeavour of conquering Death is the object of this study.
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Malati Mahajan |
A Gate to Ancient Indian Architecture |
$187.99 $140.99 |
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| Architecture is one of the sources for tracing the various aspect of the culture of any region and any period. In India there in no dearth of ancient architecture monuments and literature dealing with the ancient Indian architecture is also available in plenty. The scope of the subject is vast but the present work, in order to get ourselves introduced to the subjects, aims at tracing peculiar characteristic features of different types of architecture that flourished in India in ancient... |
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David Bolland |
A Guide to Kathakali |
$9.99 $7.49 |
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E.B. Havell |
A Handbook to Agra and The Taj |
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| This little book is not intended for a history or archaeological study, but to assist those who visit, or have visited, Agra, to an intelligent understanding of one of the greatest epochs of Indian Art. |
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Maurice Winternitz |
A History of Indian Literature |
$38.49 $28.87 |
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| Nearly seventy-five years ago Maurice Winternitz, the famous Austrian scholar and wrote the first volume of his A History of Indian Literature in German. This was followed by the second and third volumes after a few years.
This English translation is based on the original German work and has been revised in the light of further researches on the subject by different scholars in India and elsewhere.
The volume is divided into two sections. Section I relates to Veda (the four Samhitas),... |
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Bimala Churn Law |
A History of Pali Literature |
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| This book, published for the first time in 2 volumes in 1933, has become a class in Pali studies. It presents an exhaustive picture of the Pali literature, both canonical and post-canonical, giving summaries of all the Pali books, from the Vinaya Pitaka which specifies the rules of conduct of bikkhus and bikkhunis to the Jataka tales containing popular stories. Here are presented the first Buddhist books in history, which became the scriptures that form the base for the Theravada... |
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Arthur A. Macdonell |
A History of Sanskrit Literature |
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| Among all the ancient literatures, that of India is... undoubtedly in intrinsic value and aesthetic merit second only to that of Greece. The work presents a complete history of Sanskrit literature in a condensed and succinct form. It embodies a general study of the Vedic, Epic, Puranic, Classical and Philosophical Literature. It sheds light on the life and thought of Ancient and Medieval India as reflected in the literary productions of those periods.
Sanskrit was considered the language... |
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Rabindranath Tagore |
A Hundred Devotional Songs of Tagore |
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| Devotion is dedication of the self to the All Serene. To Rabindranath
Tagore, it is more than mere dedication. It is a vrata to be in perfect unison
with the Vratapati, the Lord of askance in sincerity, purity and poignance.
To be christened with the spirituality of Tagore in the most intrinsic and poignant pattern is to muse and re-muse his devotional songs, and in doing so, one cannot but discover within oneself the lotus-land of spiritual excellence. Indeed, somewhere in the heartland... |
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V.N. Sekhri |
A Lament |
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| All of us have heard stories of partition and have also read about it in history books. Here is a real life story of a man who had gone throught all those circumstances.
The book is an explict picture of all those who had to leave their hearth and home and adjust to the multifarious demands of the new land and situations. |
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Selina Sen |
A Mirror Greens in Spring |
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| It is 1984, a year which marks the end of an era in New Delhi, a city simmering with ethnic strife during the anti-Sikh riots consequent to prime minister Indira Gandhi’s assassination.
This cataclysmic event as the backdrop to the story serves to emphasize a climate of change and depicts the difference between two very diverse refugee cultures in Delhi, created upon the partition of India when the largest migration in history took place. In fact, issues of identity and displacement... |
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John M. Fritz |
A New Light on Hampi |
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| Within the past two decades, a considerable amount of research has been done on the layout, architecture, and art of Hampi, indentified with the 14th- to 16th-century imperial city of Vijayanagara.
Taking into account the most recent discoveries and interpretations at this largest and grandest of all South Indian urban sites, John M. Fritz and George Michell, who are co-directors of the Vijayanagara Research Project, have assembled here a group of scholars and the wide range of topics covered... |
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Subuddhi Charan Goswami (Ed.) |
A Pakstacintamani and Samanyanirukti of Gangesa with Kanadatippani (Text and English Translation): Comparative Study of Religions |
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| The present text comprising Cintamani Mula and Kanadatippani on the topics of Paksata and Samanyanirukti belongs to the literature of Navya-Nyaya. Samanyanirukti means the general definition of Hetvabhasa i.e., feigned reason formulated by Gangesa Upadhyaya in the Anumana-section of his Tattvacintamani. After this, there are sections on specific definitions of feigned reasons like Sadharana, Asadharana, Viruddha, Asiddha (three varieties), Satpratipaksa and Badha etc. Texts of these specific... |
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Godfrey T. Vigne |
A Personal Narrative of a Visit to Ghuzni, Kabul, and Afghanistan |
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| In 1836 the author set out from India and crossed into Afghanistan, south of the Khyber Pass, and made his way to Ghunzi and thence to Kabul before returning to Peshawar. He describes in detail the places he visited, the inhabitants and their customs etc. Includes interviews with the amir Doost Mohammed and the Sikh ruler Runjit Singh. With hand coloured frontispiece, one folding map, 6 tinted lithographed plates and many illustrations in the text. Original embossed cloth, rubbed. The first was... |
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Greta Rana |
A Place Beneath the Pipal Tree |
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| This novel was first published in German by Ehrenwirth verlag, Munich, and is distributed through Luebbe Books as 'Im Schatten des heiligen Baumes'.
It describes three generations of Sherpa women, the men in their lives, the times they lived in, and the dilemmas they faced.
While not over romanticising the past, when it was originally written it could almost have been prophetic in its misgivings about the future in an environment governed by status and taboo, in which women have to... |
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Hans Raj Agarwal |
A Short History of Sanskrit Literature |
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Radha Mohan Singh |
A Slice of Life: An Anthology of Short Stories |
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| The present anthology of stories has been prepared for students at the tertiary and undergraduate levels. The anthology introduces to the reader some of the best short stories written by famous authors of recent times. These stories are representative of the fine art of story writing and the different techniques adopted by the masters of story-telling. They bring out the morals and values that are held in high esteem by all.
The stories have been especially designed to suit the needs of... |
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M. P. Pandit |
A Summary of Savitri |
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| Sri Aurobindo's Savitri is the longest epic-poem in English literature. With his alchemic touch, the simple story of Savitri and Satyavan in the Mahabharata turns into a prophetic vision of the conquest of Death for man by the Divine Grace. Sri M.P. Pandit has written an elaborate commentary on the epic in his ten outstanding volumes of Readings in Savitri. This book summarizes the commentary in a narration that flows canto by canto, book by book. The story... |
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Diana Preston |
A Teardrop on the Cheek of Time: The Story of the Taj Mahal |
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| Emperor Shah Jahan married Mumtaz Mahal in 1612 in an unusual love match. Jahan involved his wife on all matters of state, and she followed him on all his military campaigns in spite of being almost constantly pregnant. She bore him 14 children, but her sudden death in childbirth caused Jahan inconsolable grief. His only solace was in creating the perfect memorial to his lost love on the banks of the Jumna River at Agra.
The mausoleum, made from milk-white marble and studded with a fortune in... |
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