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• Publisher : Indica Books
• By : Jagmohan Mahajan
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : May 30, 2008
• Pages : 90
• Weight : 1600 g.
• Size : 17.3 x 11.4 x 0.6 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 8186569715
• ISBN-1 3: 978-8186569719
• Product Code : BK14271

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Form the Jacket

One of the oldest inhabited cities in the world and the holiest in India. Varanasi has attracted pilgrims from all over India for over 2500 years. No account of the travels of Indian visitors and pilgrims to the city, however, is available because of the non-existence of the tradition of recording impressions of such visits by Indians

Nor is there any record of foreign travelers visiting Varanasi until four centuries ago. It was then that travelers form the West started visiting Varanasi on a regular basis, and left animated accounts their visit. Later a number of landscape artists, almost entirely from Britain, began coming to India towards the end of the eighteenth century, and made superb sketches of Varanasi when they visited the city.

The views of Varanasi by the visiting landscape artists gave not only the outside word but also the Indians themselves the first ever visual impression of the scenic splendours of the holy city,. Until then so such visual record existed because of the lack of the genre of landscape painting in an otherwise rich Indian art.

Assembled from public and private art collections in India and abroad, these views are now being published together, along with a short survey of travelers;' accounts of their visit to Varanasi, for the first time.

About the Author

Jagmohan Mahajan has written extensively on British landscape artists in India as also on Ganga. His publications include Picturesque India: Sketches and Travels of Thomas and William Daniell. The Raj Landscape: British Views of Indian Cities and the Ganga Trail: Foreign Accounts of the River Scene.

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• Publisher : Maple Press
• By : Munshi Premchand
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2015
• Pages : 184
• Weight : 250 g.
• Size : 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• ISBN-10: 9350336588
• ISBN-13: 978-9350336588

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Premchand's literary career started as a freelancer in Urdu. In his initial short stories, he has depicted the patriotic upsurge that was sweeping the country in the first decade of the 19th century and wrote of the life around him and made his readers aware of the problems of the urban middle-class and the country's villages.

This is a popular novel by Premchand. Virjan is a beautiful woman who begins to live with her relatives after the sudden demise of her parents. Her distant cousin starts loving her due to the childhood attachment. Virjan being unaware of this fact gets married into a good household. Virjan’s husband Kamlacharan, who is accustomed to jolly and luxurious lifestyle, falls for Virajan’s ethereal beauty. However, Kamlacharan dies in an accident and later when Virjan comes to know that Pratap loved her, she becomes sad…

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• Publisher : StoryMirror Infotech
  
• By : Alpa Vasa (અલ્પા વસા)
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Gujarati
  
• Edition : 2017
  
• Pages : 125
  
• Weight : 150 gm.
  
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
  
• ISBN-10 : 9386305720
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9386305725

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“વાર્તાલ્પ” ૩૦ લઘુ વાર્તાઓનો સંગ્રહ. એમની વાર્તાઓ જે જીંદગીમાં ખૂબ જ જરૂરી અને વિચારકરતી શીખ, માર્ગદર્શન પૂરક છે. લગભગ દરેક વાર્તાઓ આપણી આજુબાજુ બનતી ઘટનાઓથી પ્રેરિત છે. પરિસ્થિતિ, અવલોકન, અને અનુભવોનો નિચોડ, છતાં કાલ્પનિક પાત્રોની રજૂઆત એ “વાર્તાલ્પ.” સ્ત્રી સશક્તિકરણ અને સન્નમાન દરેક વાર્તાઓનો મધ્યવર્તી વિષય જે હંમેશા લેખિકાના હ્દયની ખૂબ નજીક રહ્યો છે. લેખિકા સંસ્કૃત ભાષાની શિક્ષિકા છે. તેથી તેઓએ દરેક ભાષાની જનની એવી સંસ્કૃત ભાષાના શબ્દ સમુહ અને ઉદાહરણ લીધા છે. નવા યુગને અનુરૂપ વાર્તાનું ઘડતર કર્યું છે. “વાર્તાલ્પ” માં અનુભવને શબ્દ દેહ આપી, હ્દય સ્પર્શી, લાગણી સભર વાર્તાઓનો સંગ્રહ તૈયાર કર્યો છે. લેખિકા વિશે ટૂંકમાં, લેખિકા ખૂબ જ લાગણી સભર ચિત્રકાર છે. તેમના ચિત્રો અને વાર્તાઓ રોજબરોજની પ્રેરણા, ઘટના અને અનુભવો પ્રેરિત છે. અલ્પાની લેખન યાત્રાની શરૂઆત “કાવ્યાલ્પ” કાવ્ય/ કવિતાઓના સંગ્રહથી થઈ. “કાવ્યાલ્પ” ને નોંધપાત્ર પ્રશંસા, ઈનામો અને પ્રણામપત્રો મળ્યા છે. અલ્પાનું લખાણ અલગ અલગ માધ્યમો દ્વારા પ્રકાશિત થયું છે. ડીજીટલ/ ઓનલાઈન પ્લેટફોર્મ દ્વારા તેમ જ કવિ સંમેલન, મુશાયરા, સ્પર્ધાઓમાં, ઘણી સંસ્થાઓ ને ટ્રસ્ટ દ્વારા પણ અલ્પા વસાને પુરસ્કાર, સન્માનપત્ર, પ્રમાણપત્ર પ્રાપ્ત થયા છે.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By:  Narendra Kohli (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition :2017
• Pages: 136 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 9386534142
• ISBN-13 :9789386534149
  

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2017 में ‘पद्मश्री’ और 2012 में ‘व्यास सम्मान’ से नवाज़े गये नरेन्द्र कोहली की गणना हिन्दी के प्रमुख साहित्यकारों में होती है। 1947 के बाद रचित हिन्दी साहित्य में उनका योगदान अमूल्य है। उन्होंने प्राचीन महाकाव्यों को आधुनिक पाठकों के लिए गद्य रूप में लिखने का एक नया चलन शुरू किया और पुराणों पर आधारित अनेक साहित्यिक कृतियाँ रचीं। नरेन्द्र कोहली ने अपनी चिरपरिचित छवि से हटकर वरुणपुत्री की रचना की है। इसमें पौराणिक कथाएँ, इतिहास, समकालीन घटनाएँ, कल्पित विज्ञान-कथा और फ़ैंटेसी का एक अद्भुत ताना-बाना रचा है। इसकी कथा वस्तु का फ़लक इतना व्यापक है कि इसमें उन्होंने धरती के सभी देशों के अतिरिक्त अन्य ग्रहों और आकाश गंगा को भी सम्मिलित किया है। राजनीति, पर्यावरण सुरक्षा, विश्व-शांति को समेटे हुए यह कथा समय और भूगोल की सारी सीमाओं को लाँघती ही चली जाती है और पाठक आनन्द और विस्मय भरी इस रचना में डुबकी के बाद डुबकी लगाता रहता है। तोड़ो कारा तोड़ो, वासुदेव, साथ सहा गया दुख, हत्यारे, अभिज्ञान और आतंक उनकी अन्य लोकप्रिय पुस्तकें हैं।

Specification:

• Publisher : Vakils Feffer & Simons
  
• by : Jayandra Soni
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2001
  
• Pages : 224
  
• Weight : 950 gm.
  
• Size : 10.7 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8187111518
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8187111511

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Vasantagauravam is a collection of fifteen essays on the many facets of Jaina philosophy, and its practice, particularly in South India, between the second and the thirteenth century. Drawing from archaeological findings and ancient texts, it covers a range of topics – from Ajitasenacarya’s status in the sect, to the patronage extended by the Kasamba, Calukya and Hoysala dynasties, to the rise of women ascetics in the Jaina tradition. Furthermore, it looks west, and studies the occidental scholar’s perception of Jain thought. With its objective analyses and valuable insights, the book is certain to enthrall spiritualists and seekers.

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• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Swami digambarji (Author), Pitambar Jha (Author), Shri Gyan Shankar Sahay (Author)
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 1984
  
• Pages : 100
  
• Weight : 360 gm.
• ISBN-10: 818948527X
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485276

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Specification:

• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Swami Maheshananda (Author), Dr B R Sharma (Author), G S Sahay (Author), Shri R K Bodhe (Author)
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2005
  
• Pages : 307
  
• Weight : 450 gm.
  
• Size : 8.5 x 5.6 x 0.8 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8189485377
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485375

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Krishna stole the cloths of gopis who were bathing fully naked in the village pond and realised them their duty and responsibility in public life.

The beautiful Patachitra painting from Orissa depicts one of the most popular themes from Lord Krishna’s childhood. The painting depicts the child Krishna sitting on the brunch of a tree as the naked gopis are requesting him to return their clothes. The painting reveals a greater sense of sensuality and gracefulness with some masterstrokes. A high degree of perfection is manifest in its completion.

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Foreword:

I deem it a privilege and also my duty to write a foreword for D. N. Shukla's book on Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting which forms Vol. IX of the Bharatiya Vastu- sastra Series. Dr. Shukla himself planed out the series and he has already published five volumes of it. Of these as many as four are in Hindi, the fifth one on Hindu Canons of Painting being in English. This shows the bulk and magnitude of the work already done by him and he intends to follow it up by bringing out Volumes on Hindu Canons of Architecture, which will constitute the remainder of the series. It has been possible for this comparatively young scholar to do so much work of this highly technical character for he has combined in him a very intimate knowledge of Sanskrit with a first hand experience about the architectural, iconographic and pictorial remains of ancient and medieval India. This is a combination rarely to be found among scholars engaged in the pursuit of similar studies, and I am sure he will be able to throw much further light on this branch of Indology. I have long been acquainted with the progress of his work and I can say without any hesitation that he has all along been sincere and conscientious in his scholarly researches. His treatment of the carious topics connected with his subject has always been critical and his appraisal of the views of previous writers has been fair and just. I have no doubt that the Government of the Uttar Pradesh and the Government of the Indian Union will extend to him their full patronage in the matter of the publication of his further researches.

It should be emphasized in this connection that he is not only advancing the bounds of our knowledge in this fascinating branch of Indology but he is also enriching the technical side of Hindi literature by writing many of these books in the Rashtrabhasha.

In fine I can only observe that the present work on the Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting is one of considerable merit and I am sure it will receive attention and appreciation from the world of scholars which it so thoroughly deserves.

Introduction

This work-Vastusastra Vols. I & II –Vol. II being published first, originally conceived as one of the series of a ten-to-fourteen-volume- project, under the general caption ‘Bharatiya Vastusastra' instituted by me some years back, can now be said, a complete English version of my D.Litt. Thesis-"Foundations and Canons of Hindu Iconography (both sculptural and pictorial)"-the two parts i. e. Canons of Icono- graphy (I) and Canons of Painting (III) wherein could also be sub- mitted, along with my already published works -.Pratima-vijnana, Pratima-laksana and Citra-laksana.

The author, primarily a student of Vastu-sastra, when got enchanted with this fascinating lore of Silpa-sastra, has to say a word on the wide scope of Vastu-sastra where Silpa-sastra, the science of sculpture, and the canons of painting (the Citra-sastra) are also included in its broader purview.

Introduction:

This book is Hindu Canons of Engineering and Architecture though first in the series of my research publications in English is seeing the light of the day after the Vastu Sastra Vol II. Hindu Canons of Iconography and Painting had already been presented to the scholarly world more than a year back. Both these Volumes have for their nuclei my Doctoral Theses Ph. D and D. Litt. In this way this Volume may be said to have come out after a long interval.

A study of Bhoja's Samarangana-Sutradhara a treatise on the science of architecture was submitted as my Ph. D thesis some six years back. I was very much encouraged by the glowing tributes to this thesis being acclaimed as a pioneer work vide the reports of the examiners appended at the end of this introduction. I therefore set for myself to extend the study from a single text to at least half a dozen representative texts like Visvakarma-prakasa, Aparajita-prccham and Silparatna. Naturally this very ambitious undertaking needed some more concentrated time the availability of which has been a very distant hope for the last so many years as I have been busy not only with D. Litt. Researches but also with my research publication I Hindi as well, with the then (1954-56) vice-Chancellor of Lucknow University took great fancy in my theses on account of their high merit and higher tributes and recommended their publication to the U. G. C. which sanctioned a grant for Rs. 6000 for the publication of my theses. Prof. Iyer the next Vice-Chancellor also agreed to recommend for some more help towards the completion of work. Hence a further subsidy of Rs. 4000 enabled me to undertake the publication of this volume also. Both these Volumes in a way may be said to complete the grand edifice of Vastu- sastra, which is not only the science of architecture engineering but also that of sculpture and painting. Accordingly all these three broad divisions of Vastu Sastra, namely Vastu, Silpa and Citra have been surveyed in both these Volumes.

The Vastu i.e. architecture being the subject matter of the first Volume and Silpa and Citra that of the second. Further again Vastu I its wider application has at least five principal branches namely Engineering, Town planning, Secular or civil architecture, Palace-architecture and Temple-architecture. It is in accordance with these broad topics of Vastu Sastra that this Volume has been divided into five principal parts namely Introductory, Town-planning, House-architecture and Temple-architecture.