SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Maple Press
• By : Prem Chand
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 2536
• Weight : 2.5 gm
• Size : 7.9 x 5.5 x 1.6 inches
• ISBN-10: 9350337134
• ISBN-13: 978-9350337134

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By:  Narendra Modi (Author)
• Binding :Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition :2014
• Pages: 136 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 9350642360
• ISBN-13: 9789350642368
  

DESCRIPTION: 

एक जुझारू राजनेता और गुजरात के सफल मुख्यमन्त्री के रूप में नरेन्द्र मोदी से सभी परिचित हैं। लेकिन बहुत कम लोग यह जानते होंगे कि नरेन्द्र मोदी एक लेखक भी हैं। अपनी युवावस्था में लिखी संवेदना से भरी उनकी ये कहानियाँ प्रेम और अनुराग के अलग-अलग पहलुओं को दर्शाती हैं। नरेन्द्र मोदी का मानना है कि मातृप्रेम की समस्त प्रेम का स्रोत है और उससे बढ़कर कोई सच्चा प्रेम नहीं है। मनुष्य के बीच अलग-अलग प्रेम इसी मातृप्रेम के विभिन्न रूप हैं, चाहे वह प्रेम दो दोस्तों में हो, एक अध्यापक का अपने छात्र के लिए, एक डाक्टर का अपने मरीज़ के लिए या फिर एक पति का अपनी पत्नी के लिए हो। ये कहानियाँ पढ़कर आश्चर्य होता है कि इतने शक्तिशाली राजनीतिक व्यक्तित्व के पीछे इतना कोमल हृदय धड़कता है। ये कहानियाँ नरेन्द्र मोदी के बहुआयामी व्यक्तित्व का एक और पहलू उजागर करती हैं। गुजराती से हिन्दी में इन कहानियों का अनुवाद गुजरात केन्द्रीय विश्वविद्यालय के प्रोफेसर एवं विभागाध्यक्ष आलोक गुप्त ने किया है। हर कहानी पर गुजरात के एक विशिष्ट लेखक की समीक्षा है जो इस संग्रह की शोभा बढ़ाती है।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rudra Publication
  
• By : Dr. Jeetendra Adhia
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Gujarati
  
• Edition : 2000
  
• Pages : 128
  
• Weight : 358 gm
• ISBN-10 : 819069264X
  
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-8190692649

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons 
• By:  Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan (Author)
• Binding :Hardcover
• Language: Hindi
• Edition :2019
• Pages: 80 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 81702898410
• ISBN-13:9788170289845
  

DESCRIPTION: 

प्रस्तुत पुस्तक में हमारे देश के महान् दार्शनिक और चिन्तक डॉ. एस. राधाकृष्णन ने कुछ महान् भारतीय पुरुषों की जीवनियों पर अपनी प्रवाहपूर्ण, रोचक और विचारोत्तेजक शैली में प्रकाश डाला है। सच्चे अर्थों में महान् वे होते हैं जो अपनी आत्मा के आदेशों के अनुसार चलते हैं और चाहे कोई भी कीमत चुकानी पड़े, समझौता नहीं करते। ऐसे महान् लोग केवल अपने लिए नहीं पूरी मानवता के लिए जीते हैं और सभी के लिए प्रेरणा की ज्योति बन जाते हैं। ये प्रेरणापूर्ण रेखाचित्र हमारे ज्ञान के क्षितिज को भी विस्तृत करते हैं और जीवन को एक नया अर्थ और प्रेरणा भी देते हैं।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By: A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
• Binding : Paperback
• Language :  Hindi
  
• Edition : 2018
• Pages: 104 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8170286905
• ISBN-13 :9788170286905
  

DESCRIPTION:

जीवन के विभिन्न पहलुओं पर राष्ट्रपति अब्दुल कलाम के ओजस्वी विचार जो नई प्रेरणा देते हैं जीवन को सार्थक और सफल बनाने के लिए।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By: Mohandas K. Gandhi (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition :2016
• Pages: 104 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8170289246
• ISBN-13 :9788170289241
  

DESCRIPTION: 

महात्मा गाँधी की गिनती बीसवीं सदी के दस सबसे प्रभावशाली लोगों में होती है। संसार को सत्याग्रह और अहिंसा के क्रांतिकारी विचार देने के साथ ही गाँधीजी ने राजनीति से धर्म तक और यौन शिक्षा से बच्चों के उचित लालन-पालन जैसे विभिन्न विषयों पर अपने विचार व्यक्त किए। आप भी ‘‘प्रेरणात्मक विचार’’ पढ़िये और स्वयं उस व्यक्ति के बहुआयामी व्यक्तित्व को जानिए जिसे पूरी दुनिया ‘महात्मा’ पुकारती है।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By: Sanjeev Kapoor (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition :2013
• Pages: 96 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 9350641321
• ISBN-13 :9789350641323
  

DESCRIPTION: 

मास्टर शेफ संजीव कपूर भारत में पाककला के सर्वोच्च शिखर पर बैठे हैं। उनका 24×7 टीवी चैनल फूडफूड, भारत और विदेशों में उनके रेस्त्रांओं की श्रृंखला और पाककला पर उनकी कई लोकप्रिय पुस्तकें इसका प्रमाण हैं कि वे भारत के सबसे लोकप्रिय और प्रतिष्ठित शेफ हैं। उनकी वेबसाइट www.sanjeevkapoor.com विभिन्न पकवानों और पाककला पर व्यापक और विस्तृत जानकारी का खज़ाना है। प्रेशर कुकिंग में उन्होंने बताया है कि किस प्रकार खाना पकाने के प्रेशर (तनाव) से मुक्ति पायी जा सकती है। सूप से डेज़र्ट तक कई विविध पदार्थ इसमें दिये गये हैं जैसे मखमली पम्पकिन सूप, स्पन्जी सैंडविच ढोकला, कुरकुरे कैरामल पापकार्न, मसालेदार कोल्हापुरी चिकन, स्वादिष्ट मेथी बैंगन, मुँह में पानी लानेवाली भटिंडा मटन करी, खुशबूदार हब्र्ड राइस विद मशरूम, नर्म-मुलायम खरवस, और रसीले चाकलेट मोदक। प्रेशर कुकिंग में पकाना, खुशी-मज़े से पकाना!

From the Jacket

The primal spiritual of the Vedic tradition, which is the subject dealt with in this volume, contains the central ideas of the philosophy perennis - the One as the source and support of the many, the spirituality of matter, and the divinity of all living beings. Its outlook is holistic as it integrates beings with the primal Being. It has a long history of five millennia spanning pre-axial, and modern periods. It has been renewed from time to time through a series of renaissance - first through the Upanisads, again through the epics and the bhakti movement, and then through the modern renaissance leaders. Hence, it is vibrant in spite of its age, modern in spite of its antiquity. Swami Vivekananda, Ramana Maharsi and Jagadguru Candrasekharendra Sarasvati are some of the exemplars of the primal spirituality.

About the Author

A specialist in Advaita, Phenomenology, and Existentialism, R. Balasubramanian is at present Hony. Visiting Professor, Sri Aurobindo School of Eastern and Western Though, Pondicherry University and President, Afro-Asian Philosophy Association. He was Director, Radhakrishnan Institute for Advanced Study in Philosophy, University of Madras, for a number of years. He was Chairman of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. He has a number of books and papers to his credit. Some of his publications include Personalistic Existentialism of Berdyaev (1970), The Taittiriyopanisad-bhasyavartika of Suresvara (1974-1984), A Study of the Brahmasiddhi of Mandanamisra (1983) and The Tradition of Advaita (editor) (1994).

She is the daughter of the Maharaja of Cooch Behar and the widow of the Maharaja of Jaipur. She was raised in a sumptuous palace staffed with 500 servants and she shot her first panther when she was twelve. She has appeared on the lists of the world’s most beautiful women. Gayatri Devi describes her carefree tomboy childhood; her secret six-year courtship with the dashing, internationally renowned polo player, Jai the Maharaja of Jaipur; and her marriage and entrance into the City Palace of the ‘pink city’ where she had to adjust to unfamiliar customs and life with his two wives. Jai’s liberating influence, combined with Gayatri Devi’s own strong character, took her well beyond the traditionally limited activities of a Maharani. This is an intimate look at the extraordinary life of one of the world’s most fascinating women and an informal history of the princely states of India, from the height of the princes’ power to their present state of de-recognition.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Maharani Gayatri Devi was the last Queen of Jaipur in Rajasthan. Gayatri Devi was listed in Vogue as one of the most beautiful women in the world.

Specification:

• Product Code: Book649
• Edition : 1, December, 1991
• Pages : 171
• Weight : 500gm
• Size : 
• Cover : Paperback
• Author : I.K. Taimni (Author)
• Language : English
• ISBN : 8170591686, 978-8170591689
• Publisher : Theosophical Publishing House

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SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chetana Book
  
• By : Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : September 1, 1999
  
• Pages : 157
  
• Weight : 550 gm.
• ISBN-10: 8185300356
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8185300351

DESCRIPTION:

The wisdom contained in Seeds of consciousness and Prior to Consciousness emerged from dialogues with devotees, who came from all over the world to learn the mysteries of life at the feet of the Maharaj, until a few days before his death in 1981 at the age of 84. Jean Dunn, a close follower of Maharaj, was with him towards his last days. She observes that,”During the last two years of his life Maharaj did not entertain any questions pertaining to this worldly life and its improvement. He taught only the highest truth. Even one sentenceof his was like an Upanishad. He was very blunt and sharp in his answers and did not cater for anyone’s ego.

In fact, his stated purpose was to destroy this ‘Pseudo-entity’. To be in his presence was to feel the vibrant truth, Impossible to describe. He was amazing to watch …….One could only gaze at him in total love and awe”, says Jean.

With the death of Harsha, King of Kanauj, in about 647 A.d. his great empire in North India collapsed. It rapidly disintegrated into several petty kingdoms. This political division weakened the unity of the country and led to several violent disputes between the chieftains of these new kingdoms.

Foreign invaders took advantage of India’s disunity. Some time in the 12th century. The Afghan Chief Shahabuddin Ghori (also known as Mohammad of Ghor) captured the empire of Mahmud of Ghazni and became the new ruler of Ghazni.

After taking Lahore, he started his incursions into India. He marched to Delhi, which was then ruled by the valiant Rajput king Prithviraj Chauhan, who defeated him in the battle of Tarain.

The following year Mohammad returned to India and again met the forces of the Rajput king on the same battlefield. This time the Muslim invader inflicted a crushing defeat on the Hindu army.

This second battle proved to be a turning point in India history. It put an end to the Hindu Empire in Northern India forever and established Muslim rule.

Prithviraj Chauhan was a famous king and warrior. He was noted for his valour and chivalry. Despite his defeat and death, his name has been immortalized and he had become the hero of many legends. The story of Pithviraj Chauhan as told in the following pages is based on these legends.

"Prithviraj Chauhan was destiny's chosen one, singled out for glory and greatness. During the course of an extraordinary life, he transcended the limits imposed on mortals and achieved Godlike luster. The conquering hero dreamed of a united land where peace prevailed over war and love over hate.

Princess Samyukta loved him from afar, and when Prithviraj Chauhan claimed her for his own, defying the wrath of an implacable foe, their happiness was complete. Victorious in love and war, Prithviraj Chauhan was soon to discover that success came with a terrible price - trials, treachery and tragedy. What happened next? Read the tale of the legendary warrior who lives on in the hearts of those who remember his unmatched valor and timeless heroism."

The opulent, sometimes scandalous, private lives of the Mughals of India is brought to life in this book. The text cover svarious aspects of their lifestyles, such as their food and drinks; clothes and ornaments; perfumes and incense; addictions and intoxicants, amusements and pastimes; rituals of circumcision; marriage and harem life. This well-written book with colour illustrations and photographs will be a delight to the lay reader aswell as the serious scholar. Titled as it is, the book deals with the little known, but much scandalised, private life of the Mughals who ruled from 1526, practically to 1803 when the British captured Delhi and Agra, their nerve-centres, from them. This included theperiod ofthe reign of three great Mughals, viz. Akbar (1556-1605), Jehangir(1605-27) and Shah Jahan (1628-58), of little more than acentury.They possessed not only fabulous wealth, but also thevision tofound a culture-State, in the real sense of the term.Planting itin the soil as naturally as a banyan tree, they institutionalized their life, as much as their government. The former, almost completely shrouded in mystery, offers one of themost interesting aspects of medieval Indian history and culture.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Prof. R. Nath (b. 1933), has worked at more than 50 ancient and medieval sites of India and with his extensive knowledge of Sanskrit and Persian, has authored several books, monographs, research papers and articles.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By:Cheryl Strauss Einhorn (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2017
• Pages: 224 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-9386348753
  

DESCRIPTION:

Foreword by Tony Blair, former prime minister, UK

A powerful system for making complex decisions with confidence and conviction

It can be messy and overwhelming to figure out how to solve thorny problems. Where do you start? How do you know where to look for information and evaluate its quality and bias? How can you feel confident that you are making a careful and thoroughly researched decision?

Whether you are deciding between colleges, navigating a career decision, helping your aging parents find the right housing or expanding your business, problem Solved will demonstrate how complex personal and professional decisions can be made with confidence and conviction.

Life is filled with uncertainty, but that uncertainty needn’t hobble you. Get smarter. Make better judgments. Work through ambiguity to become self-assured despite our capricious and volatile world.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Jaya Row (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2004
• Pages : 148 pages
• Size : 14 x 0.8 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8179921263
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8179921265

DESCRIPTION:

The Bhagavad Gita: A Melody Divine, Michelangelo said that inside every block of stone dwells a beautiful statue. The Bhagavad Gita is a divine song that helps unravel the beauty within you. It helps you to discover the magic potency of self-governance. It enriches you from within. Carl Jung said, Who looks outside dreams, who looks inside awakes. The world converges to that rare person who has empowered himself and tapped his inner resources. Such a person achieves success effortlessly. He is happy and evolves to his full potential. Without cultivating your inner resources you feel inadequate, incomplete. It is only with inner unfoldment that you experience true power. You are not the human being going through a spiritual experience, you are the very Spirit. The Gita brings you back to the cognition of your true potential. You become a Perfect Person.

This book highlights the intellectual and diplomatic distinction of K. Natwar Singh. From a very young age he came into intimate contact with world-renowned personalities. As he reveals:’While working on this book,the thought struck me that the Natwar Singh of these letters was obviously someone that had been transmuted out of the indubitably common metal that he is, into a superior product by the alchemy of the minds of indulgent and warmhearted well-wishers. Indira Gandhi, R.K.Narayan, Han Suyin, E.M. Forster, Nargis Dutt et al figure in the list of these distinguished well-wishers. These letters tell us as much about the writers as they reflect on the engaging personality of the recipient.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

K. Natwar Singh was born in 1931. He was educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, Scindia School, Gwalior, St. Stephen’s College, Delhi and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1953 and resigned from it in 1984, thereafter he joined the Congress Party. At present, he is a member of the Congress Working

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Ryuho Okawa (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 156 pages
• Size :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8184958692
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184958690
  

DESCRIPTION:

Developing the mind-set for attracting infinite riches

You Don’t Need to Be Guilty, If You Wish to be Wealthy…

Are you subconsciously afraid of thinking big?
Do you feel a sense of guilt towards wealth?

Author Rhuyo Okawa will alter your mindset forever.

In Prosperity Thinking, Okawa presents some of the most engaging ideas on wealth and success. He demonstrates with examples that it is our inherent fear of being wealthy that prevents us from pursuing our ambitions. When there is no limit to our aspirations, there is nothing that can stop us from being successful.

Based on Okawa’s spiritual movement of Happy Science philosophy, this book helps us envision the power of dreaming big. The author also shares thought-provoking insights on success and shows how we all have the power to change our lives with positive thinking.

Through Okawa’s teachings, readers will recognize the value of time and money, the power of persuasion and the benefits of sincerity and healthy competition in every walk of life.

Drive out the spirits of poverty and attract wealth and success!

A spiritual leader, contemporary visionary and founder of Happy Science, Ryuho Okawa has devoted his life to the Truth and ways to happiness. Born in 1956 in Japan, Okawa studied law in Tokyo and then international finance in New York. In 1986, he renounced his business career at a major Japanese trading house and established Happy Science. In 1987, he established the IRH Press Co. Ltd. Since then, Okawa has published over 2,000 books including best selling titles such as The Laws of the Sun, The Golden Laws and The Laws of Eternity.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

This book treats two representative Hindu rituals of contemporary India, Puja (offering service) and Samskara (initiation rituals at important occasions of life). amskara rites are performed at significant junctures of an individual`s life, from birth to death, by the individual`s family. Puja rites, rather than being performed in relation to the life cycle of an individual in a family, are more deeply related to the annual rituals of the cult to which an individual or the person`s family belongs. Persons may go to a temple and request priests to perform puja rites, or they may perform them themselves at home.

For people living in India, Puja and Samskara are not at all uncommon. Puja rites are performed everywhere-at temples, in private homes, on street corners-and although in recent times families observing all the traditional Samskara rites have declined in number, almost all Hindu families still perform the major Samskaras. it is difficult, however, for those living outside India to know how these rites are performed. Hence, this book presents a large number of photographs that enable readers to gain an accurate grasp of them and indicates the place of ritual in the total structure of religion.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By: Sanjeev Kapoor (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition :2014
• Pages: 96 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8170289017
• ISBN-13 :9788170289012
  

DESCRIPTION: 

आलू मटर, बैंगन भरता, क्रीम पनीर, कड़ाही छोले लौकी कोफ्ता, मटर पनीर, गाजर हलवा लच्छा पराठा, मूली का पराठा मा छोले दी दाल, कड़ा परशाद, भटूरे भरवाँ टिंडे, पटियाला चिकन, आम का अचार, आलू गोभी पराठा, दाल मखनी, अमृतसरी मच्छी, चिकन टिक्का, पंजाबी कढ़ी, राजमा मसाला, सरसों दा साग मक्की दी रोटी, पंजाबी समोसा, बड़ियां आलू, मिस्सी रोटी मीठे, चावल।

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Rajpal and Sons
• By:  Kamleshwar (Author)
• Binding : Hardcover
• Language : Hindi
• Edition :2015
• Pages: 208 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 9350640724
• ISBN-13 :9789350640722
  

DESCRIPTION: 

पंजाबी भाषा केवल पंजाब तक ही सीमित नहीं, वह दुनिया के उन सभी हिस्सों में बोली जाती है जहां पंजाबी बसते हैं। शायद इसीलिए पंजाबी कहानियों पर बहुत-से अलग-अलग प्रभाव पड़े जिनकी झलक कर्तार सिंह दुग्गल, अमृता प्रीतम, रामसरूप अणखी, अजीत कौर, संतसिंह सेखों और अफज़ल अहसन रंधावा और अन्य पंजाबी लेखकों की कहानियों में मिलती है। इस पुस्तक में संकलित कहानियों का चुनाव हिन्दी के प्रसिद्ध साहित्यकार कमलेश्वर ने किया है और साथ ही एक विस्तृत भूमिका भी लिखी है। यह संकलन हिन्दी के पाठकों को पंजाबी साहित्य को जानने का अवसर प्रदान करती है।

Specification:

• Publisher : Indica Books
• By :  Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee
• Cover : Paperback
• Edition : 2011
• Pages : 306
• Weight : 350 gm.
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Language : English
• ISBN-10 : 819003815X
• ISBN-13 : 978-8190038157
• Product Code : BK14215

Description:

The author expounds that all-pervasive prana is dharma and God. The total creation of man, insects, animals, trees, water, earth, air, fire, sky all have the same dharma and belong to one Master.
Yogacharya Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee was invited as the sole representative from India to participate in the Parliament of World Religions held at Val St. Hugon, France in 1997 convened by Dalai Lama and sponsored by UNO, UNESCO, UNCHR. At this Parliament of World Religions, he upheld the tenets of Sanatana yogadharma to the world with a clarion voice. His brilliant exegesis on the subject of love, peace and solidarity one world, one religion, one God, one man at the Parliament of World Religions received tumultous applause. All those present at this Parliament like representatives from all religions; scientists; philosophers; journalists; the audience; being spellbound by his profound wisdom and eloquence, conferred on him paens of praise. French newspapers commented on him to be a “wise worthy dignified sage”; “a seer”; “a vi-sionary”, etc.
A civic reception graced by luminaries from all walks of life was accorded to him on 10 June 1998 in Calcutta.

About Author:

Yogacharya Vacaspati Dr. Ashoke Kumar Chatterjee, author of this book was born in 1933 in West Bengal. The sudden demise of his mother when he was away in service intensely agonised him. He grew averse to material pursuits and became spiritually in-clined. He received initiation in Kriyayoga in April 1961. He reached the pinnacle of Kriyayoga within a short span. His three Gurus were stalwarts in this discipline. His first Guru was Sri Annada Charan Sastri (Bhattacharya) disciple of Panchanan Bhattacharya, an elevated disciple of Yogiraj Sri Shama Churn Lahiree. After Sastrirji’s demise, Dr. Chatterjee obtained initiation from Sundarlal Lala of Varanasi, disciple of Sri Harinarayan Paladhi, who was the disciple of Yogiraj and later from Sri Satyacharan Lahiri, grandson of Yogiraj. Today Yogacharya Vacaspati Chatterjee is acknowledged as a World Kriyayoga Master.
Being an ardent devotee of Sanatana Dharma’s Polestar, Yogiraj Shama Churn Lahiree and to propagate His ideals and tenets before the masses so that they derive the right path, the right enlightenment, he has penned many books in Bengali, illustrating the science of Kriyayoga. Most of his books have been published in Indian languages like Hindi, Oriya, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati. Tamil, Malayalam, Assamese editions are awaiting publication. Purana Purusha Yogiraj Sri Shama Churn Lahiree has been published in French also. His other books (English editions) are also awaiting publication. He has authored quite a number of articles delineating the science hence rationality of Kriyayoga.
He has founded “Yogiraj Shyamacharan Sanatan Mission” and the temple of Yogiraj at Kakdwip, West Bengal, India with the objective that mankind can derive the Kriyayoga revived by Yogiraj. He has organized philanthropic activities through this Mission. To further Yogiraj-consciousness he has travelled throughout India and in many places in the Orient and Occident. People irrespective of caste, creed, colour, nation, language, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Jains, untouchables, renouncers, are all coming under his aegis and are finding in him their haven and panacea for all evils. He has a large following throughout India and abroad like USA, England, France, Spain, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Bangladesh, etc.

About the Book : Besides its gigantic size and encyclopaedic and eclectic nature of its content the Puranic corpus stands apart from, the earlier Brah-manical literature in many significant ways; not the least of them being the fact that whereas the Vedas and the Dharmasastras had been meant for self study and were for the exclusive religious edification of the members of the upper stratum the puranas were required to be recited in popular gatherings and were generally projected as the scriptures of the masses. Their popular base and mass appeal can be judged from the fact that Puranic lore like that of the Epics has over the centuries become deeply ingrained in popular psyche. But what is really intriguing is the extraordinary nature of exigency which compelled the Brahmanical leaders to give up their former elitist and almost inflexible stance and not only take notice of the substratum of society but also seek to win them over through a genre of literature specially composed for them. Perhaps what is even more surprising is that though so much has been made provide as written about the Puranas in the past century and a half yet no serious attempt has been made to provide as completely convincing and wholly viable rationale for their composition and subsequent proliferation. The present work aims at removing this lacuna and establishing the purposive nature of the Puranic texts. It also seeks to underline the dialectical nature of relationship that existed between the processes of their composition and the forces of acculturation that became activated and more visible during Gupta/Post – Gupta times due to the amounting demands and pressures of an emergent socio economic order based on agricultural expansion.

About the Author : Dr. Vijay Nath is a Reader in Jankidevi College Delhi University. She secured her Master's and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Delhi. Her articles focusing on socio economic and religious history of ancient India have appeared in a number of well known journals. She is the author of the book Dana; Gift System in Ancient India: A Socio economic Perspective. She has been elected president of ancient Indian History section of the sixty first session of India History Congress.