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The beautiful Kalamkari painting depicts the Son of God sacrificing His life for the welfare of the people. The Christ is being shown crucified by the soldiers as the devotees of the Christ pray for mercy. Two angels are also painted showering praises on Him.

An exquisite ancient craft of painted and printed fabrics, Kalamkari derives its name from Kalam meaning Pen, and Kari meaning work, literally Pen-work. It is hand painting as well as block printing with vegetable dyes. Kalamkari art has evolved through trial and error over the last 3000 years. Techniques of craftsmanship in Kalamkari were handed down within the families from generation to generation.

The enhancing effulgence of colours and the characters that emerge on cotton fabric, help create a resplendent spread.

A deep sense of sacrifice and devotion is manifest in the beautiful Kalamkari painting. The Jesus is being crucified as devotees are crying. A huge tree is being nicely painted. The tree is a symbol of life, its growth. The effulgence of colours and the characters that emerge on cotton fabric, help create a resplendent spread in the painting. Centred on Kalahasti region of Andhra Pradesh, this type of painting is characterized by strong colour pattern and lines.

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• Product Code :JW7237
• Material :Metal
• Size :2.25" Diam
• Weight :46 gm.

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• Product Code : k24
• Material : Metal Base and Crystals
• Size : 9x9x1 cm
• Weight - 300gram

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• Product Code :3357
• Material :Quartz Crystal
• Size :1.40"H x .75"W
• Weight :22 gm.

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• Product Code :BS7560
• Material :Resin
• Size :6.50"H x 4.75"W x 3"D
• Weight :600 gm.

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The spectacular Amethyst product is given a refine and dazzling touch with some heart-touching designs. Amethyst is a kind of quartz is purple in colour, and is a popular gemstone. The term 'amethyst' is derived from the Greek and means "not drunken. There is a belief that amethyst would ward off the effects of alcohol. Its color is awesome, and even other, more expensive purple gemstones are often compared to its color and beauty.

Amethyst can occur as long prismatic crystals that have a six sided pyramid at either end or can form as druzes that are crystalline crusts that only show the pointed terminations. As a mineral specimen, amethyst is popular for its color and nice crystal shapes that produce a handsome, purple, sparkling cluster.

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The common Western understanding of Buddhism today envisions this major world religion as one of compassion and tolerance. But as the author Droit reveals, this view bears little resemblance to one broadly held in the nineteenth-century European philosophical imagination that saw Buddhism as a religion of annihilation calling for the destruction of the self.

The Cult of Nothingness traces the history of the Western discovery of Buddhism. In so doing, the author shows that such major philosophers as Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Hegel, Cousin, and Renan imagined Buddhism as a religion that was, as Nietzsche put it, a “negation of the world.” In fact, says the author, such portrayals were more a reflection of what was happening in Europe at the time - when the collapse of traditional European hierarchies and values, the specter of atheism, and the rise of racism and social revolts were shaking European societies-than an accurate description of Buddhist thought. The author also reflects on how this history continues to echo in contemporary Western understanding of Buddhism. The book includes a Buddhism published in the West between 1638 and 1890.

Roger-Pol Droit is a researcher in Philosophy at the Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a columnist for Le Monde. His most recent book is 101 Experiences de philosophie quotidienne.

The present book attempts to supplement the work of Pargiter on the Cultural plane. Pargiter was concerned with the dynastic records of the Puranic texts while this book aims to interpret "cultural history" from the Vayu Purana. The work is divided into ten chapters arranged systematically. The first five chapters contain facts of intellectual culture and the last five of material culture. The presentation of material has involved a great deal of translation and interpretation of the Puranic text. The work has two appendices and a critical introduction. Appendix A identifies the places and tribes. Appendix B describes the centres of pilgrimage. Introduction surveys the previous research on the Puranas, on the Vayu particularly. It discusses the antiquity of the Vayu, its value for the cultural history and the method followed in the present investigation. It also gives an outline of political history as found in the Vayu Purana. This book is valuable not only for Indian Culture, but also for a critical edition of Vayu, and consequently of other Purana material.

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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Rana P. B. Singh 
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : June 15, 2004
• Pages : 370
• Weight : 650 gm.
• Size : 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569456
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569450
• Product Code : BK1419

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This book expounds in a colourful way the diverse literary images that Banaras, the city known as the Cultural Capital of India and the holiest city for Hindus, has inspired and continues to inspire in different writers in the course of history. Few other cities in the world have so sparked the imagination of the artists as this paradoxical and undescribable city which seems to integrate all contradictions.
Kabir, Tulsidas, Mirza Ghalib, Bhartendu Harishchandra, Rudra Kashikeya, Bishma Sahni, Raja Rao, Shivprasad Singh, Abdul Bismillah, Kashinath Singh and Pankhaj Mishra, all wrote about the Banaras of their time or of the past. Rana P.B. Singh analyses their literary images and the cultural traditions described therein, interpreting them in the purview of cultural symbols and lived traditions which have maintained their continuity since the ancient past. Each of the fifteen essays describes a time in the history of the city along with its culture, illustrated with Puranic sources. This work will certainly be helpful to understand the complexity and multiplicity of belief systems, and the historical perspectives of metaphor, symbolism and milieu.

About Author:

Rana P.B. Singh is Professor of Cultural Geography at the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, and Founding President of the Society of Heritage Planning and Environmental Health, as also of the Society of Pilgrimage Studies. He has been studying the city of Banaras/Varanasi/Kashi for most of his life, and is today an undisputed authority on the culture, geography and history of the city.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Nirad C. Chaudhur
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English  
  
• Edition : 2009
• Pages :  196 pages
• Size : :21.6 x 14 x 5 cm
  
• ISBN-10 :  8179928934
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8179928936

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Culture in the Vanity Bag is an informal but ecological study of Indian clothing and adornment. It is mainly about the historical evolution of costumes and seeks to illustrate their relationship with different cultures that have been seen in India.