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The Vedanta Sutras of philosopher-poet Narayana Guru has 24
beautiful-fluent sutras revealing the essential message of the Vedanta. The
highly-perceptive commentary by Seami Narayana Prasad elucidates the guru`s
interpretation of the Vedantic concept.

From the Jacket:

The Vedantasutra of Badarayana is one of the great philosophical works of India. It deals with those fundamental questions concerning mans existence, that still remain an enigma despite all attempts of eminent philosophers and religious leaders both past and present, of this world at unravelling its mysteries. The teachings of the Vedas, the doctrines of contemporary philosophers and the purport of important passages from Upanisads are its subject-matter. It is at once a repository of all earlier knowledge, a genesis for further philosophical speculation and an evaluating scale for new metaphysical ideas. Its scope being universal and timeless, Badarayana resorted to a terse and aphoristic style for compressing a vast body of knowledge into such brief statements that could easily be memorized. The sutras are something more than an aphorism; for each, though brief to the point of being obscure, is so pregnant with meaning that interpretation has become difficult and resulted in the growth of an unending line of commentators, both Indian and foreign, spanning centuries from Sankara the earliest, passing through Bhaskara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Srikantha, Nimbarka, Sripati, Vallabha, Suka, Baladeva to Radhakrishnan the latest.

This book, known as the Govinda Bhasya, is the commentary of Baladeva, who was a disciple of Sri Caitanya (AD 1485-1533) the famous Vaisnavite saint of Bengal. Its approach is theistic and based on the teachings of Madhva and Caitanya. The English translation is faithful to the original.

Cover : Hard Cover
Edition : 2002
Publisher : Munshiram Manoharlal Publication Pvt.Ltd
ISBN : 9788121510585
Language : English
Pages : 900

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Over a career spanning seven decades, R.K. Narayan, easily one of the most influential and important writers of India, populated the fictional town of Malgudi with a host of unforgettable characters: Swami and his gang of friends, the Talkative Man, Raju the guide and Sampath the printer, among many others. These characters have carved out a place for themselves in popular imagination and live on, still fresh and endlessly entertaining, many decades after they first appeared.
Timeless Malgudi brings together a selection of the best and the most enduring of R.K. Narayan’s fiction and non-fiction. The Guide examines, with wit and irony, how a man becomes a godman. The story ‘A Horse and Two Goats’ describes an attempt at cross-cultural communication which goes haywire, with hilarious consequences. The excerpt from My Days, Narayan’s autobiography, paints a poignant picture of the author’s childhood while the ‘Misguided “Guide”’ is a cynical, sharply written chronicle of the making of the film Guide, based on his novel. Also included in this volume are excerpts from the travelogue My Dateless Diary and a brilliant retelling of the Tamil epic Silappadikaram.
Catering both to Narayan aficionados and to readers who have not yet been introduced to his work, Timeless Malgudi is as much a showcase of Narayan’s writing as it is a celebration of Malgudi, the town which time does not touch.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

R.K. Narayan was born in Madras in 1906. His first novel, Swami and Friends and its successor, The Bachelor of Arts, are both set in the fictional town of Malgudi. Apart from these, Narayan wrote twelve other novels. Narayan has also authored five collections of short stories, two travel books, two volumes of essays, a volume of memoirs, and re-told legends and epics. Narayan, who lived to be ninety-four, died in 2001.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Pendred Noyce  (Author), Roberta Baxter  (Author)
  
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2014
• Pages :  156 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13:  978-8184955965
  

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"The Vikramorvasiyam of Kalidasa
A New Skt.Comm. and Arthaprakashika, Various Reading Introd., a Literal Tr., Exhaustive Notes in Eng.& Appendices"

The beautiful Batik painting depicts two village women engaged in gossips on their way to fetch water from the village well. A panoramic scene of an Indian village is manifest in the spectacular painting. Two cows are beautifully painted and another woman is bust at her daily work. Trees are also given a refine touch. The method of waxing and then dewaxing also adds some beauty in the painting.

A village god is given a vivid portrayal in this beautiful Warli painting. Mythological figures are main motifs of this genre of painting. The goddess reflects the simple religious beliefs of the Warli people. One of the most ancient genres of Indian paintings, this type of tribal paintings depicts the simple life style of the Warli tribes in Maharashtra. Major economic preoccupation of the tribal people, celebration, wedding, rituals and births are the main motifs of this genre of painting. The Warli art has a special characteristic of representing the humble life of the Warli tribe.

Two beautiful village women are filling water on their earthen pots. A panoramic village ambience with the well, green trees, cows is manifest in the beautiful Batik painting. The women are also engrossed in talking as they are filling water on their pots. Batik paintings are mostly centered on West Bengal, Orissa and Tamil Nadu in India and are known for their originality, uniqueness and finesse. Batik is the art of creating images on the cotton cloth using wax resist method.

About the Book :-

This book is primarily intended to be an investigation into the meaning and religious significance of the important Vedic term dhi, which has been variously and often inadequately translated. The author has tried to determine its central meaning or semantic nucleus from which the various contextual connotations were derived. This central meaning is vision, not only in the literal sense (faculty of seeing), but in the Vedic texts mainly in the sense of mental vision, supranormal vision establishing the contact with the transcendent sphere or world of the divine powers from which the poets obtained their inspiration and their insight into the higher supersensuous truth and reality which they endeavoured to express and formulate in their poems. The author elaborately describes the relevant processes and the activity of the poets and adds chapters on related subjects, e.g., the heart as the organ of these mental processes, poetical inspiration in post-Vedic literature, contemplation and meditation, the Buddhist ideas on vision as well as the term pratibha "flash of intuition.

About the Author :- Jan Gonda, born 1905, was professor of Sanskrit and Indology, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 1932-1976. He is the author of many books and articles on Sanskrit, Indian religion and literature, among them Aspects of early Visnuism, Sanskrit in Indonesia, Die Religionen Indiens, The Dual Deities in the Religion of the Veda, Triads in the Veda, Vedic Literature, The Ritual Sutras, Medieval Religious Literature in Sanskrit. He is honorary member of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute and other Indian Academies and Institutes of the Royal Asiatic Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences etc.

Cover : Hard Cover
Edition : 1985
Publisher : Munshiram Manoharlal Publication Pvt.Ltd
ISBN : 81-215-0076-1
Language : English
Pages : 372