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• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Shri Parmanada Arawal
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2012
  
• Pages : 72
  
• Weight : 125gm.
  
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8189485911
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485917

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The story of Tapti Gaina is intimately linked with the lives of two men, her husband and his brother. Exploring caste, student politics, the freedom struggle and the Emergency, Brothers traces the history of the Gaina family, beginning with their village origins across the emerging metropolis of Ajmer and ending at the height of political power in Jaipur. It is a masterful portrayal of ambition, desire, betrayal and anguish, enacted against the shifting terrain of family dynamics.

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Long time ago when Buddha was on his quest to attain enlightenment was doing severe penance so He became weak, tired and hungry He took for rest under a peepal or bodhi tree in Gaya near Varanasi ( Benaras). There was a woman by the name of Sujata who at that time preparing her choicest food for offer to the same peepal tree. It is a tradition in India from the ancient times to offer food in respect of trees and things related to nature as Hindus believe that the spirit or supreme self existed in each and every partical of universe. She was preparing to offer food to the tree and saw the Buddha in a shining body. She saw the tree spirit appearing in person to accept the food. Sujata offered some food to Buddha. When Buddha consumed the food He realised the Supreme Truth that neither extreme self indulgence nor self mortification is required. Its needed to follow the Middle Path. To symbolised this event, Sujata Sthan or Durgeshwari Temple is there in Gaya today.

Lord Buddha, the symbol of non-violence has been chiseled out of brass in a most exquisite manner reflecting the basic features of brass carvings. Smoothness, gracefulness and the refined characteristics of the figure have been aptly retained. The drapery of Lord Buddha has also been carved out with meticulous artistry.

Gautama Buddha was one of the most exceptional of free thinkers and religious leaders. Buddha was born as Prince Siddhartha to King Suddhodana and Queen Myaadevi in the Himalayan Kingdom of Kapilavastu in 544 BC. Sage Asita visited the palace and predicted that the baby will live to be either the greatest of kings of the greatest of saints. Frightened by the prophecy, Suddhodana took great care to ensure that the young prince was surrounded only by beauty, luxury and happiness.

Years later, restless in his gilded cocoon, Siddhartha set out to explore his kingdom and was greatly moved at the state of human suffering. One fine day, he renounced the world and began a life of severe asceticism to seek an answer to life and sorrow, to seek the ultimate truth.
His search led him to enlightenment that liberated and illuminated him as he pondered under a Bodhi tree. He became the Buddha at the age of 35. He realized that the body need not suffer of starve to seek the truth. He adopted the “middle-path”, that moderation. He returned to preach what he had learnt and experienced, and did it with compassion for his fellow beings.

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• Product Code :B6822
• Material :Brass
• Size :5.75"H x 3.25"W x 2.60"D
• Weight :900 gm.

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The beautiful brass image of Gautam Buddha is given here a refine and detail treatment. Lord Buddha passed through a process of rigorous transformation in the jungle and ultimately attained the enlightenment. Worshipped by the Buddhists in India and abroad, he is considered as an avatar of Lord Vishnu.

The spectacular depicts the Apostle of Truth and Non-Violence Lord Buddha in a most accomplished manner. The World Preacher is seated in a composed mode and He is preaching the gospel of truth and non-violence. A popular deity in Hinduism, holds a conspicuous place in Indian culture as well. An ancient art form, Batik is a form of making paintings using wax. The technique of batik is a rigorous one as the final design must be conceived before the painting is begun. The batik painter works intimately with colour pattern; if he wants parts of his design to blue, for example, all these parts must be waxed at the same time before any subsequent dyeing.

The wooden figure of Lord Buddha in his half closed eyes depicts his meditative mood. His universal panacea for all evils and violence was non-violence. The elongated ears, bangles all have been given prominent treatment. The meditated figure of the Lord is an emblem of peace and truth and he is preaching for universal peace. The enlightened Buddha is the epitome of the ultimate truth and he is the embodiment of non-violence and peace. The simplicity and refine nature of the figure is striking.

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• Product Code :5644
• Material :Brass, Reconstituted Turquoise and Coral
• Size :7.25"H x 6"W x 2.50"D
• Weight :1.540 kg.

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About the Book:

This book gives an account of the life of the Buddha and an exposition of the religion and philosophy the Buddha propounded. This also analyzes the origins of Buddhist thought and traces its development from Hindu philosophical systems. Developments in Buddhist thought since the death of the Buddha are also dealt with as are Buddhist literature, sculpture and painting, both in India and in other pars of the world to which Buddhism spread.

"The aim of this," says the author, "is to set forth as simple as possible the Gospel of Buddhism according to the Buddhist scriptures, and to consider the Buddhist systems in relation, on the one hand, to the Brahmanical systems in which they originate, and, on the other hand, to those systems of Christian mysticism which afford the nearest analogies. At the same time the endeavour has been made to illustrate the part which Buddhist thought has played in the whole development of Asiatic culture, and to suggest a part of the significance it may still possess fro modern thinkers."

Dr. Coomaraswamy has succeeded in achieving this objective as only he could. With his genius for lucid exposition and with a beauty of style and exposition characteristically his own, he has succeeded in presenting some of the most complex concepts of Indian philosophy in terms which make them understandable even to the layman.

About the Author:

Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy, the greatest among the Indian art-historians, was born in Colombo on August 22, 1877. After graduating from the University of London he became the Director of the Mineralogical Survey of Ceylon. Between 1906 and 1917, when he joined as the Curator of Indian Art in the Boston Museum he was busy lecturing on Indian art and formed societies for the study of India art. In 1938, he became the Chairman of National Committee for India's Freedom. His contributions on Indian philosophy, religion, are and iconography, painting and literature are of the greatest importance as were his contributions on music, science and Islamic art. He died on September 9, 1947.