The present volume is intended as a supplement to Lanman's Sanskrit Reader. It is hoped that its focus on the early upanisads makes the transition easier from Lanman's classical and epic selections to the language of the Vedic tradition.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : CHAUKHAMBHA SANSKRIT SANSTHAN
• By : Chandraraja Bhandari "Visharad"
• Cover : Hardcover
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 11458 (383 Color Illustration)
• Weight : 2.100 kg.
• Size : 10.0 INCH X 7.5 INCH
• ISBN-10 : 9381608539
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9381608531

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Aleph Book Company
• By : Shashi Tharoor
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
  
• Pages : 360 pages
  
• Weight : 590 g
  
• Size : 13.97 x 2.39 x 21.59 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9789383064656
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9383064656
  

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 In 1930, the American historian and philosopher Will Durant wrote that Britain?s ?conscious and deliberate bleeding of India? [was the] greatest crime in all history?. He was not the only one to denounce the rapacity and cruelty of British rule, and his assessment was not exaggerated. Almost thirty-five million Indians died because of acts of commission and omission by the British?in famines, epidemics, communal riots and wholesale slaughter like the reprisal killings after the 1857 War of Independence and the Amritsar massacre of 1919. Besides the deaths of Indians, British rule impoverished India in a manner that beggars belief. When the East India Company took control of the country, in the chaos that ensued after the collapse of the Mughal empire, India?s share of world GDP was 23 percent. When the British left it was just above 3 percent. The British empire in India began with the East India Company, incorporated in 1600, by royal charter of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth I, to trade in silk, spices and other profitable Indian commodities. Within a century and a half, the Company had become a power to reckon with in India. In 1757, under the command of Robert Clive, Company forces defeated the ruling Nawab Siraj-ud-Daula of Bengal at Plassey, through a combination of superior artillery and even more superior chicanery. A few years later, the young and weakened Mughal emperor, Shah Alam II, was browbeaten into issuing an edict that replaced his own revenue officials with the Company?s representatives. Over the next several decades, the East India Company, backed by the British government, extended its control over most of India, ruling with a combination of extortion, double-dealing, and outright corruption backed by violence and superior force. This state of affairs continued until 1857, when large numbers of the Company?s Indian soldiers spearheaded the first major rebellion against colonial rule. After the rebels were defeated, the British Crown took over power and ruled the country ostensibly more benignly until 1947, when India won independence. In this explosive book, bestselling author Shashi Tharoor reveals with acuity, impeccable research, and trademark wit, just how disastrous British rule was for India. Besides examining the many ways in which the colonizers exploited India, ranging from the drain of national resources to Britain, the destruction of the Indian textile, steel-making and shipping industries, and the negative transformation of agriculture, he demolishes the arguments of Western and Indian apologists for Empire on the supposed benefits of British rule, including democracy and political freedom, the rule of law, and the railways. The few unarguable benefits?the English language, tea, and cricket?were never actually intended for the benefit of the colonized but introduced to serve the interests of the colonizers. Brilliantly narrated and passionately argued, An Era of Darkness will serve to correct many misconceptions about one of the most contested periods of Indian history.

The beautiful wall hanging celebrates the amazing beauty of the Gujarati patchwork styles. The dazzling beauty of the evening gets a fitting depiction in the wall hanging. A number of mirror works and sequins have been put together in a spectacular manner. A number of sparkling designs have been put together in a spectacular manner.

The village life is a hustle bustle of numerous activities and the rural folks remain engaged throughout the day. At dusk they come back home after day’s works. The painting has painted both the men and women busying their time with their works. The chain of women figures make the painting a must buy. Whereas some women are playing with the dhols some others are working their household chores. Some ladies are drawing water and some people are coming back home in the boats. Some ladies are playing with the kids. The trees, the bullock carts, the animals all have made the painting a quite impressive one. Use of natural dyes, sharp lines all are basic tenets of a Warli painting. The artist has made use of the pen and natural dyes on fabrice quite impressive manner.

Specification:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :   Sai Gurusthan Yog Centre (Author), Sehdev Singh (Manhas) (Author), Yogacharya A. Gopal Krishnan (Author)
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 340 pages
• Weight : 
• Size :  20 x 14 x 4 cm
• ISBN-10  :8184958943
• ISBN-13  :978-8184958942
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Description

"Sai Guristhan Yog Centre."

Whether it’s recurring backaches or poor concentration levels, obesity or joint pains, yoga has answers for all your health-related worries!

An Illustrated Guide to Yoga Practice covers the myriad aspects of yoga and offers plentiful practices for physical, mental and spiritual well-being. If learnt and practiced sincerely, these exercises will help you attain good health, a calm mind and a blissful union with your inner self.

With warm-up exercises, 70+ asanas, pranayama, mudras, bandhas, chakras, shaktikriyas, a detailed description of human anatomy and meditation techniques, this book is all you need to understand and master the art of yoga.

Sehdev Singh (Manhas) is an MBA from the University of Jammu. He is a follower of the Kriya Yoga tradition of Sri Sri Paramahansa Yogananda and has practiced Surya Yoga and living-without-food for a period of three years under the guidance of a Himalayan yogi.

Yogacharya A. Gopal Krishnan is the founder-director of Sai Gurusthan Yog Centre, Chennai. He is a highly experienced teacher and practitioner of yoga, Ayurveda and naturopathy.

The beautiful Batik painting depicts the moving elephant with some sparkling designs on it. The elephant is moving fast that symbolizes movement and life. It is painted blue and indigo. The method of waxing and dewaxing has created a nice effect in the painting and has given a different pattern to the painting. Batik is one of the most popular forms of paintings in India and has been in practice for more than 2000 years.

Batik prints of West Bengal, Orissa and Tamil Nadu are known for their originality, uniqueness and fineness. Batik is the art of creating images on the cotton cloth using wax resist method.

Batik literally means 'wax writing'. A batik artist needs to have a good sense of colors and patterns. Though the motifs used in batik are simple, knowledge of color gradations and tack to remove wax finely are required.

Applying the wax resist and systematic cracking are the key to a beautiful art piece. The characteristic batik effect is created by cracking of wax on the lighter hues and seeping in of the darker colors though them.

In this beautiful Silk painting an Indian shepherd is nicely painted with natural colors. The shepherd is being painted looking after his herd. A deep sense He is in a happy mode amidst his asses. Indian silk paintings are characterized by its softness, elegance and a flexibility of style. Silk is used as a medium for portraits and paintings since it is very light and soft. Craftsmen use a special process that allows the silk canvas to retain the paint in vibrant detail.

Silk Paintings reached their acme of glory during the Mughal era. Mughal kings patronized arts and literature and many of today's paintings still have a Mughal touch to them. Such paintings were mainly rooted in the desert kingdoms of Rajasthan. Rich court life and religious themes are often depicted as a characteristic of this genre of painting. Beautiful ladies often figure prominently in these paintings.

The Batik artists have depicted an Indian village with a rare sense of artistry. The Batik prints of West Bengal, Orissa and Tamil Nadu are known for their originality, uniqueness and fineness. Batik is the art of creating images on the cotton cloth using wax resist method. Rice starch and wax resists were used for printing. The technique is somewhat tedious. In fact the method of dewaxing gives the painting a bright colour effect that is the specialty of this form of painting. The artists here have revealed a good sense of colour and patterns. A busy mediaeval village with the carts and the people has been portrayed using variegated colours.

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
  
• By : Debabrata SenSharma
• Cover : Hardcover
• Edition : January 1, 2009
• Pages : 180
• Weight : 450 gm.
• Size : 8.6 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-13 : 978-8186569894
• Product Code : BK14184
  

Description:

Ancient Indian tradition traces the origins of the Shaiva cult to the Agamic thought current. The emergence of the Trika school of Shaivism in Kashmir marks the climax in the development of the Advaita Shaiva thought, being backed up by a rich Sanskrit literature. The doctrine of recognition (pratyabhijna) constitutes the cardinal doctrine in the philosophy of the Advaita Shaiva School. The sadhaka (spiritual seeker) has to try to discover his real being by removing the various veils, to thereafter recognize his true essence.
The Advaita Shaivas describe the nature of the Supreme Reality, one without a second, in two different ways namely, as Caitanya or Samvid as an abstract metaphysical principle (nirakara tattva) as well as Parama Shiva and Parameshvara possessing a form (sakara Being). They also describe the Supreme Reality as the transcendent Absolute (anuttara) and at the same time as all-pervasive Reality (vishvatmaka)
The Advaita Shaiva philosophers have not only shed light on the process of the world manifestation in the conventional way, they have added a new dimension to it by describing it in terms of involution on the part of Caitanya to the gross level of matter; or as the unfoldment on the part of the Supreme Lord out of His free will, exercising His svatantrya shakti, or as His self-extension in the aspect of His Shakti. They mention seven different kinds of experients or subjects (embodied, unembodied, and disembodied), a concept unique in the annals of Indian philosophy.
The concept of purnahanta (pure I-experience) symbolizing the fullness-nature of the Supreme Experient, i.e. Shiva pramata different from the ego-experience (ahamkara) of the limited embodied beings, has been explained in this book in esoteric terms as it marks a unique contribution of Kashmir Shaivism to Indian philosophical thought.

About Author:

Dr. Debabrata Sen Sharma, a well-known scholar of Sanskrit and Indian philosophy and Religion, has spent more than half a century in studying, teaching and writing on the Advaita Shaiva thought of Kashmir.

The aim of this book is basically to introduce the reader to the fundamental principles that Trika Philosophers have enunciated in their philosophical-cum-theological treatises. Such an approach has been adopted deliberately on account of the fact that Trika system of thought, which is very rich in philosophical vocabulary, is hardly known to general public in the manner of Advaita Vedanta of Samkara. Although non-dualistic in orientation, yet it differs radically from the monism of Samkara with regard to the nature of the Absolute and the world. The Trika philosophy rejects the Vedantic view of the Absolute theistically, and so speaks of Paramasiva as being both consciousness and reflective awareness. As such the Absolute freedom, and so the school also is referred to as being that of Freedom. Insofar as the status of the world is concerned, the Trika thinks of it as being extension/emission/reflection of Paramasiva and so is considered to be real. It means that the world, even though a reflection of Paramasiva, is actually Siva itself.

From these main differences it can be discerned that the Trika absolutism is radically different from the one that Samkara has adumbrated. It is hoped that the reader upon reading the book will be able to have the grasp of the main philosophical principles that the Trika has enunciated and developed.

Moti Lal Pandit, trained as a theologian and linguist, has been engaged for last three decades in such dialogic research as would disseminate knowledge concerning the essence of such forms of spirituality as has been enunciated by such major religions as Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. The result of this untiring effort has been the publication of such books as, for example, Vedic Hinduism; Philosophy of the Upanisads; Samkara's Concept of Reality; Being as Becoming; Beyond the Word; Transcendence and Negation; Buddhism: A Religion of Salvation; The Trika Saivism of Kashmir; Encounter with Buddhism; and The Disclosure of Being.