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Sunita Pant Bansal |
Kalidasa's Meghadoot |
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| Kalidasa, the creator of this poem, was indisputably the greatest master
in Sanskrit poetry. His poetic genius took Sanskrit poetry to the highest level
of elegance and refinement. He excels in the context of natural scenery and
phenomena.
Meghadoot means the clouds as a messenger. It is one of the most popular poetic works of Kalidasa.
This book endevours to explain the poem in such a way
that the reader is able to visualise and feel the whole scene through the hero's
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N.V. Karthikeyan |
Kandar Anubhuti |
$9.49 $7.12 |
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| The present work is an English rendering of the renowned Tamil work "Kandaranubhuti" by the great Saivite Saint Sri Arunagirinathar of Tiruvannamalai in South India. This highly mystical, poetical work is shiningly radiant with the Light of Transcendental Experience. The rare and supreme treasure of God-Experience is made available to the eager souls in quest of God through this sublime poem replete with the ecstatic bliss of the wonderful Saint Arunagiri who gave it to the world. But... |
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Krishna Lal |
Kantha: Poetry Embroidered on Cloth |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Letters on Poetry, Literature and Art |
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| A collection of several hundred letters on the form and substance of poetry, sources of poetic inspiration, poetic rhythm and technique, and appreciation of art.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new spiritual... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Letters on Savitri |
$4.95 $3.71 |
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| Written during the 1930s and 1940s, almost all addressed to K. D. Sethna.
About the Author:
Sri Aurobindo was an Indian/Hindu nationalist, scholar, poet, mystic, evolutionary philosopher, yogi and guru. After a short political career in which he became one of leaders of the early movement for the freedom of India from British rule, Sri Aurobindo turned to the development and practice of a new spiritual path which he called the "integral yoga," the aim of which was to further the evolution of... |
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Rainer Maria Rilke |
Letters To A Young Poet |
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| The ten letters that form this beautiful little book are some of the most famous letters ever written. They range freely over a variety of subjects, from the dangers of an ironic worldview to the value of faith. The reason they have proved to be so popular over the years is that they are the work of a great soul; an expansive and inspiring spirit pervades them.
For almost a hundred years, the voice that reached out to the aspiring artist with the most clarity and consolation was that of Rainer... |
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Ananda Reddy |
Love and Death: Critical Essays |
$6.49 $4.87 |
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| Sri Aurobindo composed Love and Death, a narrative poem in blank verse based on a theme from the Mahabharata, in 1899 while in Baroda. Written in "a white heat of inspiration", it "bore already the impress of the future poet and prophet".
This book contains the original poem, relevant letters of Sri Aurobindo, a study by Amita Sen dealing especially with "the cohesiveness of the narration and the enrichment brought to the Sanskrit version" which inspired it, and several literary criticisms by... |
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Harsha V. Dehejia |
Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta |
$31.49 $23.62 |
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| Love Songs of Narsinh Mehta is a commentary on Narsinh Mehta’s love songs. Narsinh (1408-65), a Vaishnava bhakti poet of medieval India, is considered as the adi-kavi of Gujarat. He is also regarded as a shringara kavi, a poet of romance. The quintessence of his bhakti is prem and his prem has inherent bhakti, and therefore his poetry is regarded as shringara bhakti kavya. Essentially shringara is the romantic celebration of the other, and when Narsinh's other is none other than Krishna,... |
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Sri Aurobindo |
Lyrical Poems (1930-1950) |
$4.95 $3.71 |
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| Sri Aurobindo once wrote that he wanted his short poems published in two separate books, one of sonnets and the other of "(mainly) lyrical poems". His sonnets were published in 1980.
This book contains all other significant short poems composed between 1930 and 1950. Most of the poems included are "lyrical" in the technical sense: they are short and express the writer's personal thoughts and feelings. Unlike most other examples of the genre, however, their lyricism is spiritual and psychic.... |
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R.C. Prasad |
Maha Calisa Samgraha |
$14.95 $11.21 |
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| An Anthology of Calisas and Aratis forming part of the Hindu Religious
Poetry and Public Worship (Text in Nagari & Roman Scripts with Hindi &
Eng. Tr.) |
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M.R. Kale, Ed. |
Meghaduta of Kalidasa (Kale) |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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| The present edition of the Meghaduta has been prepared with particular attention to the wants of University students; at the same time, much that is of interest to the general reader has been inserted. The words giving the prose order to each verse in Mallinathas commentary are printed in the bold type, the compound words not actually given by Malli being enclosed in rectangular brackets. This will enable the students to find out the prose order and thereby to understand the text at once, and... |
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Lex Hixon |
Mother of the Universe |
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| In this delightful translation by Lex Hixon, we hear the pillow talk of the mystic poet Ramprasad to his Goddess Kali, Mother of the Universe, Mother of Reality-a tantric love affair which the Divine that will completely enchant the reader. |
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kireet Joshi |
Nala and Damayanti |
$10.99 $8.24 |
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| This ancient story by the poet-Rishi Vyasa in the Mahabharata recounts how heroism guided by wisdom enabled two human beings, crushed by adverse circumstances, to emerge victorious from a terrible ordeal.
Introduction, text and notes. |
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Agni |
Namaste Savitri: 342 Reproductions in Colour of Paintings by Agni |
$62.99 $47.24 |
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| 342 reproductions in colour of paintings by Agni (Giovanni Tonioni). Every line of Book I Canto I The Symbol Dawn is illustrated by a painting.
With captions and notes in English, Italian, French and German.
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R. Y. Deshpande |
Paging the Unknown |
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| Poems by Dr R. Y. Deshpande.
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Bhartiya Jnanapith |
Pahuda Doha |
$4.95 $3.71 |
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| A work of pure mystic poetry, Pahuda Doha is a manifestation of emotive expressivity in the earliest tradition of Indian spirituality. A powerful work of the 9th century incorporating notes of the spiritual Shramanic tradition and echoing voices of protest on poetic level, it has influenced early and medieval Hindi poetry. A unique poetic volume composed in two hundred dohas, it presents a beautiful example of self-expression underlining the ultimate goal.
Shastri ji’s... |
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Irma Schotsman |
Panditaraja Jagannatha's Gangalahari: With the Commentary by Sri Sadasiva and English Translation |
$12.99 $9.74 |
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| Jagannatha (1572-1665) was a famous Sanskrit poet residing at the Delhi Durbar where Emperor Sah Jahan bestowed on him the honourable title of Panditaraja. He feel in love with a Muslim woman at the court and was consequently excommunicated by the Brahmin community. Thereafter he went to Varanasi, where he composed the poem known as Gangalahari, verses entreating Goddess Ganga for purification.About the Author:Irma Schotsman (1935) from the Netherlands retired early from her job because of... |
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Christine Devin |
Parvati or Extreme Love |
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| Adaptation of the famous poem in sanskrit by Kalidasa.
It describes the union of the god Shiva and his consort Parvati. How the beauty of the goddess could not seduce the ascetic god, by which means she finally succeeded in conquering him, what was the ecstasy of the lovers, such is the subject of this story in which the extreme of asceticism blends with the extreme of sensuality. |
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Kireet Joshi |
Parvati's Tapasya |
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| The fifth canto of the famous Kumarasambhava of Kalidasa. It recounts the heroic efforts of Parvati in order to seduce Shiva, the god “whom beauty cannot conquer”. Introduction, text and notes. |
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Gurudev Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj |
Philosophy of Yoga in Poems |
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| This book contains the quintessence of all books of Sivananda in prose-poems.
About the Author:
Sri Swami Sivananda , born on the 8th September, 1887, in the illustrious family of Sage Appayya Dikshita and several other renowned saints and savants, Sri swami Sivananda had a natural flair for a life devoted to the study and practice of Vedanta.
He was an inborn eagerness to serve all and an innate feeling of unity with all mankind. He is the author of over 300 volumes and has disciples all... |
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Swami Rama Tirtha |
Poems of Rama |
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| About the Author: Described as “one of the greatest souls, not only of India, but of the whole world” by Mahatma Gandhi, Swami Rama Tirtha (1873-1906) was a living embodiment of the teachings of Vedanta. One of the greatest saints and philosophers of India, Rama Tirtha brought the message of yoga and Vedanta to Japan, Egypt, and the U.S. In the Woods of God Realization is a complete collection of his writings and lectures. In this seven volume work Rama Tirtha presents a practical... |
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Mohit Chakrabarti |
Rabindranath Tagore |
$18.99 $14.24 |
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| An inward exploration of diverse finer sensibilities and softer visions of life in terms of aesthetics and mystic grandeur, Rabindranath Tagore's songs of prayer unfold an unending panorama of joy, sorrow, life, death, light, darkness, void and fullness in a serene symphony with Nature.
An alltime entry into the elegant cathedral of the language of silence and poignant suggestiveness to life as it ought to be for deliverance in ardent devotion and dedication. |
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Harold Coward |
Rabindranath Tagore - The Builders of Indian Philosophy Series |
$25.49 $19.12 |
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| A renaissance figure and marvel that Rabindranath Tagore has been, an analytical predilection of philosophy is hardly enough for comprehending his phenomenal creativity and expression of the highest values of will and feeling.
Often the question whether Tagore is a philosopher is quite idle, as idle as whether Nietzsche is a philosopher, or the author of Philosophical Investigations is a philosopher. It is easier to deride the high and naked peaks of synoptic insight and opt for the worship... |
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Sundari Siddhartha |
Sarasvatikanthabharanam (Set 3 Vols.) |
$192.49 $144.37 |
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| Sarasvatikanthabharanam is a work on Poetics. (Bhoja has another work on Grammar under the same name). This encyclopaedic compilation is a record of the wide range of human experience and knowledge that interested Bhoja. It discusses the usual topics of poetics in an unusual manner viz. Dosa, Guna, Dosaguna, Alankara, Rasa, Drsya and Sravya Kavya. There are many earlier editions of this work, some with even two commentaries. But this alone has an English translation. The text has been... |
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V.K. Subramanian |
Saundaryalahari of Sankaracarya |
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| Saundaryalahari is a rare Tantric work whose authorship is attributed to Samkaracarya. It is a long poem of one hundred verses; a hymn of praise to the Divine Mother; an invocation and a prayer that awakens man from stupor to a state of effulgent energy and creativity. In this monograph the original Sanskrit text of each verse is presented in Devanagari script accompanied with its Roman transliteration. English rendering of the verses and explanatory notes are provided with an eye to modern... |
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