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This complete guide presents everything you need to know to enhance your health, beauty, and emotional well-being through the practice of aromatherapy. Kathi Keville and Mindy Green, who are masters in the fields of herbalism and aromatherapy, offer a fresh perspective on the most fragrant of the healing arts and discuss such topics as:
The history and theory of fragrance.
Therapeutic uses of aromatherapy for circulation, digestion, respiration, immunity, and more.
Instructions for creating personal beauty and skin-care products

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By :  Chad Parkhill (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : Gujarati
  
• Edition : 2019
• Pages :  192 pages
• Size : : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10: :  9387944980
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-9387944985

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Illustrated by Alice oehr travel has always been a part of the cocktail DNA. This book traces the cocktail journey around the world, from the early 19th century to the 21st century, and details the colourful tales behind 80 excellent libations. The story of each cocktail comes with an easy-to-follow recipe, including many classics and some new recipes that make their public debut in these pages. The beautiful accompanying illustrations will inspire you to pack your bags and Board a plane. With tips on bartending techniques and equipment, as well as advice on creating a well-stocked home bar, this book is the perfect companion for budding bartenders, travel aficionados and cocktail lovers.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By : Jules Verne  (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2012
• Pages :  284 pages
• Size : :20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-13:  9789388423021
  

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JAICO ILLUSTARTED CLASSICS SERIES is a collection of beloved childrens classics read by generations all over the world. Rich with adventures and thrills, these immortal stories with vivid illustrations are designed to delight young readers. PHILEAS FOGY, a wealthy Londoner, was a member of the Reform Club. He was also slightly eccentric. His friends at the club challenged him for 20,000 pounds to go around the world in eighty days. He accepted the wager and set out from London with his belongings. Did he win the wager? Come, let us join Phileas Fogy on his tour and find out. JULES VERNE was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He is also called the Father of Science Fiction.

The compilation of articles is a glaring example of the multidimensional talent of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (1877-1947), who was not only a pioneer historian of Indian art, a master-interpreter, one of the most versatile of this century whose scholarship and knowledge knew no bounds, but a universal man at the same time, the one who urged the Indians to be conscious of their glorious heritage. Coomaraswamy was the harbinger of Indian nationalism but his outlook was neither parochial nor chauvinistic. It had a universal appeal. The present volume is a rich collection of his thirteen important articles embedded in a single thread. These are: Art and Swadeshi; Swadeshi, True and False; Domestic Handicrafts and Culture; The International Congress of Applied Chemistry 1901 and Aniline Dyes; The Function of Schools of Art in India-A reply to Mr. Cecil Burns; On the Study of Indian Art; Facial Expression in Indian Sculpture; On Mughal and Rajput Paintings; Night Effects in Indian Pictures; Song-words of a Panjabi Singer; Poems of Rabindranath Tagore; The Modern School of Indian Painting; and Education in Ceylon. Diverse they are in contents, but they all convey a single message-the churned outcome of a master-mind visualizing things and events in their true perspective.

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Kathakali literally meaning "story-dance" is the pantomimic dance-drama of Malabar comparable to a great extent with the European ballet in the West with an additional advantage of having rich gestural code necessary to convey the theatrical pleasures to the spectator.

This book is a detailed analysis of the dance and art of Kathakali, its origin, technique, the costume, make-up and the gestural code, with a separate chapter on "Evolution of Kerala's Art" by Krishna Chaitanya.

This edition has been completely revised and enlarged and contains new set of illustrations to further facilitate understanding and appreciation of the Art.

Foreword

IN making a critical study of the art and dance of Kathakali, the ancient dance-drama of Kerala, Gayanacharya Avinash C. Pandey a has produced this comprehensive book of an unparalleled nature. I feel no less pleasure than great honour that I am invi- ted to express a few words on it.

So far none has dealt with this subject in any language so elaborately and so systematically as this young authority on Indian music and dancing has. He has presented the entire technical subtlety in a lucid style making it to rank as the first book on Kathakali literature, dance and art. Its authenticity as the first today and the first tomorrow shall ever guide all dancers, students, commentators and contemporaries of all ages.

The book deals with the origin of Kathakali, its art and dance, rasas and costume and make-up, and gestural code; and makes wide study on the origin of Mudras-their permutation and combi- nation. The interesting chapter on its mime-make-up and cos- tume-vividly reinforces the intricacy and artistical development which this kala gained within a short evolutionary period of a little over 200 years.

The writer has taken great pains in tracing out those neglected pieces of this art which were hitherto unknown and unmined. While dealing with hand poses in use in Kathakali, Gayanacharya has tabulated the connotation of groups of ideas which each mudra represents. It will help considerably all dancers to remember various expressions express able by them.

Kathakali is "an interpretative dance-drama to the accompani- ment of music." The highly specialised form of pantomimic representation makes this art to depict the actual life of our gods and people.

While tracing the origin of Kathakali, the author has made an interesting survey of those human factors which can contribute in the evolution of dance. Guided by regional effects, habit, custom, and tradition, Gayanacharya believes that Kathakali has taken its birth to connote "poetry in their (dancers) figures." The wide appeal of sentiments and emotions helps the Kathakali actor to depict an object or a thought in alively and realistic colour. The author has been successful in giving the basis and importance of the use of various colours in Kathakali make-ups. The unique feature of the book lies in the discussion and analysis of "Kathakali Dance Exercises" and the" Talas used in Kathakali" I ts practical utility has been enriched and enhanced by these.

The work presents a scholarly exposition of every art of Kathakali and is an invaluable companion with everyone interested in matters Kathakali. It is the first authoritative work in my opinion.

Introduction

LIFE in itself is a composition of arts, peculiar to its own measures.

There is in every living creature an instinct to make one or the other movement of the body which a dancer calls "gesture". Gesticulating, he recalls to memory the sacred life of the great Hindu avatars (incarnations) and the people. To him, dancing lies at the root of all processes towards bhakti (worship and devotion) and attainment of salvation. He visualises creation of the universe as a result of the ecstatic dance of Brahma, the Creator. He ascribes every kriya (action) of God to a creative dance in which man forms the minutest dancing atom. Every human action, as that of an animal, has a direct command of the soul and that action is termed dainik nrtya (every-day dance). The existence of the supreme power of the abstract life, or, of God, in every kriya of the living being in a latent form helps in developing the various dynamic forces of the human nature, and the awakening of these forces leads man to "dance".

Nrtya is the outcome of five kriyas of God, viz., srsti, or, Avirbhava (Universe or creation), Isthiti (Preservation or Protection), Samhara (Destruction), Tirobhava (Veiling, Embodiment, Illusion or Giving Rest) and Anugraha (Release or Salvation). These subjective and objective actions, in turn, are the different forms of Brahma, Visnu, Rudra, Mahesvara and Sadasiva. "In the night of Brahma, Nature is inert, and cannot dance till Siva wills it; He rises from His rapture and dancing sends through matter pulsing waves of awakening sound, and lo! matter also dances appearing as a glory round about Him."

Siva, the greatest of all our deities, is depicted in the cosmic pose of a dancer who perpetually stands for an image of reality and truth, the keys to the complex and complicated tissues of human life and lives in general, which form an independent theory of Nature, not simply satisfactory and adaptable to a single clique, race, or nation, nor acceptable or worthy of consideration to the philosopher, thinker, and worshipper of one century only, but universal in its appeal to the votary, the worshipper, the mediator, the philosopher, the thinker, the lover, the gametic and the artist of all ages and all countries.

The four significant actions of Lord Siva connote that the universe is created, protection is granted, release is offered and destruction is undertaken, all at the will of God : The drum stands for creation, fire for destruction, protection proceeds from the hand of hope, the foot held aloft gives release.

Of all the arts, the art of dancing first expresses itself in human person. Music, acting, poetry form a single compartment of human personification, while sculpture, painting and all other arts of design proceed in another stream. There is no primary art beyond these two arts, and their origin is much earlier than man himself-and dancing came first. It may be that earlier to human existence, dancing and architecture were the result of the same impulse. Edmund Selous suggests that the nest of birds is the chief early form of building and the creation of nest may have first arisen out of their ecstatic sexual dance."

All forms of dances have their histrionic background of evolution. Topographic conditions, climate, language, deport- ment and mise en scene of folk dances indigenous to a nation and the physical built of the people are the main guiding conditions for the suggestion of a particular type of dancing. The striking example is of the dance-forms prevalent in the plains of the Indus, the Ganges, and the Brahmaputra rivers, Rajasthan, Tanjore and Kerala. There is considerable difference between the artistic representation of one form of Bharat Nritya (miscalled "Kathak") dancing in the Gangetic and the Indus plains and the other in Rajputana; between Manipuri dance of Bengal and of Assam; between Sadir dance of Tanjore and Dassiattam of Tamilnad ; between Bharat Natyam and Kathakali between Garba, the folk- dance of Gujerat and Rasa Lila, the folk-dance of Uttar Pradesh, etc.

Nrtya, Gita and Vadhya are the three essential factors of our Sangita. Dancing (Nartana) has three off-shoots, viz., Natya, which essentially represents a theatrical performance; Nrtt, which conveys rhythmic movement of the body without alluding abhinaya or bhava and, therefore, largely drawing its art from the footwork; and, Nrtya, meaning rhythmic movement of the body anent some bhava stipulated in a piece of abhinaya, thus alluding some story. The joyous strokes of the feet of children or the rise and fall or the philosophers' thoughts, all are governed by the same law of rhythm. If this law of rhythm, lying at the root of all Indian dancing, is overlooked, one would fail to understand the supreme manifestation of physical life-life not only in the external space of human action, but also in the internal space of self-realisation, The significance of dancing lies, in its truest form, in a single and an intimate, concrete appeal of a general rhythm-that general rhythm which does not merely mark life, but the universe in its wide sense; and if one is still persistent to consider it a narrow suggestion, it is the sum total of all cosmic influences which reach and affect human life. It need surprise none that rhythm, ever tending to be moulded into a time, should mark all the physical and spiritual manifestations of life.

Dancing is the supreme expression of religion and love alike- of religion from the earliest time of human existence and of love from the age much anterior to the birth of man! Tracing the history of the origins of dancing in the human person, it is seen intimately entwined with the human behaviour in respect of the tradition of war, labour, entertainment, education, whereas some of the wisest philosophers and the ancient civilisations have con- sidered the dance as "the pattern in accordance with which the moral life of men must be woven.

Based on an in-situ study of the art and architecture of various temples in Himachal Pradesh, the present work is result of an in-depth research in art idioms of the temples in Himachal Pradesh up to the thirteenth century of the Common Era. The emphasis in the work has been on art-historical significance of the door-frames of various temples. The development and iconographic features of the temple door frames in Himachal have been compared with their counterparts in other parts of India and the relationship between the two has been discussed to highlight the extension of art idioms from one region to the other. Details of the exquisitely carved doorframes of the large niches in the rock-cut complex at Masrur and the wooden doorframes such as those of the Dakshineshvara Mahadev at Nirmand and Lakshna Devi at Brahmaur have been highlighted perhaps for the first time in this work, which provides a scholarly peep into the ancient art and architecture of this very important region.

The Author:

Dr. Sangram Singh is a young art historian with both the practical and theoretical academic background. He did his bachelor's degree in sculpture from Himachal Pradesh and passed M. A. in History of Art from the Dept. of Fine Arts, Panjab University, Chandigarh followed by Ph. D. from the Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology of the same university. Dr. Singh is actively engaged in research work and has done extensive field-work in various parts of Himachal Pradesh. He has participated in several conferences and seminars at national level and has published research papers based on original field work.

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• Publisher : Sagar Publications
• By : J. N. Bhasin
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 1982
• Pages : 300
• Weight : 420 g.
• Size : 7.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• ISBN-10: 2808198159
• ISBN-13: 978-2808198158
• ASIN: B00DD74A9E

Author : Dr. Kamal Shankar Srivastava
ISBN : 9788173201578
Edition : 2015
Language : English
Size & Pages : 29 Cm, Page 200, color Plates
Publisher : Agam Kala Prakashan
Format : Hardbound

The book focuses on cult and cultural synthesis in India. The terracotta images are of profound nature and have significant role in fertility and funerary rituals. The terracotta temples of Bishnupur have also been dealt with. The main focus in on votive terracotta, which includes portable icons and sculptured veneer on architectural monuments of Bengal in the late medieval period. The images are vaishnavite and saivite krishna, Buddha as avatara or vishnu, Ramayana and Mahabharata scenes, etc. have been depicted. T

Author : Prashnt Kumar Mandala
ISBN : 978-81-7320-135-6
Edition : 2013
Language : English
Size & Pages : Size Royal,pp.152,(Full art paper in four Col).2013
Publisher : Agam Kala Prakashan
Format : Hardbound

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By  Sun Tzu (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2010
• Pages : 252 pages
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10:  8184951515
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8184951516

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The Art of War, written in the 5th century B.C., is the oldest military treatise in the world. For 1,500 it has greatly influenced both Eastern and Western military strategy. It consists of 13 chapters, each focusing on a specific aspect of warfare and tactics.

Unakoti in north Tripura enjoys singular distinction in possessing colossal rock-cut sculptures with tribal features forming a class by themselves. The 8th-9th century sculptures are venerated by the ancient people of the region like the river Ganga and Varanasi in the entire country. Brahmanical sculptures have also been influenced by the tribal culture.

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• Publisher : Kannadasan Padhipagam
• By : Kannadhasan
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2009
• Pages : 800
• Weight : 1 kg.
• Size : 22.2 x 14.4 x 4.6 cm
• ISBN-10: 8184024916
• ISBN-13: 978-8184024913

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Arthamulla Indhu Madham Tamil book written by poet Kannadhasan, A treatise on Hindu Religion - Meaning of Hindhu Religion as Reflected in the Poet's life. Its have Complete 10 Volumes in one book and book of Question & Answer on Hindhu Religion by the post.

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• Publisher : Sri Ramanasramam
  
• by : V S Ramanan
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2019
  
• Pages : 108
  
• Weight : 640gm.
  
• Size : 23.7 x 22.8 x 1 cm
  
• ISBN-10: 8182882648
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8182882645

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The book is a tribute to the Holy Hill, Arunachala. It probes to find answers to questions such as what is Arunachala if not our own self? What is it to hold the lingam of the Lord if not to see the Absolute that dwells as Atman within each person?

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• Publisher : Sri Ramanasramam
  
• by : Sri Ramanasramam
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2018
  
• Pages : 3367
  
• Weight : 4.100kg.
  
• ISBN-10: 818288277X
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8182882775

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This set of books combines the contents of biography, collected works, experiences of devotees, reminiscences and extensive portions of dialogues from books such as Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi, Letters from Sri Ramanasramam, Day by Day with Bhaga van, Guru Vachaka Kovai and other books. It also includes a set of 108 articles selected from
Call Divine and the Mountain Path by devotees detailing their unique personal experience.

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• Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
• By:James Allen (Author)
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages: 80 pages
• Size :  10.8 x 0.49 x 17.8 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 818495932X
• ISBN-13 : 978-8184959321
  

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“Circumstance does not make the man, it reveals him to himself.”

Do you believe in the power of positive thinking and how it can be harnessed in your life? As a Man Thinketh explains the direct connection between our thoughts and happiness. Author James Allen makes a bold, yet simple assertion that a man is made or unmade by himself, with the tools or the weapons that he builds.

Eminently quotable and full of practical advice, this book is a guide and inspiration for those who need to find their path in life.

James Allen was a philosophical writer known for many inspirational books such as Byways of Blessedness, Morning and Evening Thoughts and From Passion to Peace.

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• Publisher : Christian World Imprints
  
• By : Marlene Ch. Marak
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : January 1, 2019
  
• Pages : xiv, 377 p.  
  
• Weight : 810 gm.
  
• ISBN-10: 9351483819
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9351483816

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This book uses a method of “narrative communication” that integrates feminist perspective with aspects of narrative theory and Christian communication theory, to look at the significance of storytelling as a medium for evolving inclusive worship. The underlying is that storytelling can be an ideological tool to challenge discrimination against women and girls.

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• Publisher : Alakananda Prachuranalu
• By : Gopichand
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Telugu
• Edition : 2013
• Pages : 124
• Weight : 158 gm.
• Size : 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• ISBN-10 : 8182940761
• ISBN-13 : 978-8182940765

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Gopichand (8 September 1910 - 2 November 1962) was a Telugu short story writer, novelist, editor, essayist, playwright and film director. He is especially celebrated for his second novel 'Asamardhuni Jeevayatra' (Bungler: A Journey Through Life). This is the first psychological novel in Telugu literature. For his work Panditha Parameshwara Sastry Veelunama, in 1963 Gopichand received the Sahitya Akademi Award. This was the first Telugu novel to win it.

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• Publisher : Yoga Publication Trust
  
• by : Swami Satyananda Saraswati
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Hindi
  
• Edition : 2017
  
• Pages : 565
  
• Weight : 750 gm.
  
• Size : 14 x 3 x 21.1 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8185787522
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8185787527

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Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha in English is a best seller with amazon.com.In recent times we have added Kannada version also and the present Hindi version has a wonderful track record of 17 reprints and two editions. For the Hindi speaking Yoga Practitioners this book will

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• Publisher : Yoga Publication Trust
  
• by : Swami Satyananda Saraswati
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2008
  
• Pages : 544
  
• Weight : 750 gm.
  
• Size : 5.5 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8186336141
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8186336144

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Asana Prana Yama Mudra Bandha is recognised internationally as one of the most systematic yoga manuals today. Since it's first publication by the Bihar School of yoga in 1969 it has been reprinted seventeen times and translated into many languages. It is the main reference text used by Yoga teachers and students of Bihar Yoga/Satyananda Yoga within the International Yoga Movement, and many other traditions as well. This comprehensive text provides clear illustrations. step by step directions and details of chakra awareness. It guides the practitioner or teacher from the simplest to the most advanced practices of hatha yoga system. A therapeutic index is provided for use by doctors and yoga therapists incorporating recent information from research into yoga. This edition successfully brings the exposition of yoga practices to the standard of a university text. This latest Fourth Revised Edition has been revised and updated under the direction of Swami Niranjananda Saraswati,the successor of Swami Satyananda Saraswati. Since publication of the first edition,interest in yoga has spread widely.Now the book is used in ashrams,centres and yoga schools in many countries as the standard textbook for teachers and students alike.The techniques presented have been assimilated by fields as diverse as medicine,education,entetainment,business,sports and the training of spiritual aspirants.

About the Author

Swami Satyananda was born at Almora in 1923.In 1943 he met Swami Sivananda in Rishikesh and adopted the Dakshnami sanyasa way of life. In 1955 he left his guru's ashram to live as a wandering mendicant and later founded the International Yoga Fellowship in 1963 and the Bihar School Of Yoga in 1964.Over the next twenty 20 years Swami Satyananda toured internationally and authored over 80 books. In 1987 he found Satyannada Math,a charitable institution for aiding rural development, and the Yoga Research Foundation. In 1988 he renounced his mission, adopting khestra sanyasa, and now lives as a paramahansa sannyasin.

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• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Shri O P Tiwari
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Gujarati
  
• Edition : 2008
  
• Pages : 220
  
• Weight : 500gm.
  
• Size : 8.4 x 5.6 x 0.5 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8189485482
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485481

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• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Shri O P Tiwari
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2005
  
• Pages : 228
  
• Weight : 500gm.
  
• Size : 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8189485369
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485368

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• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Swami Kuvalyananda
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2007
  
• Pages : 154
  
• Weight : 450gm.
  
• Size : 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8189485474
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485474

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• Publisher : Kaivalyadhama
  
• by : Swami Kuvalyananda
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 1993
  
• Pages : 188
  
• Weight : 450gm.
  
• Size : 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
  
• ISBN-10: 8189485040
  
• ISBN-13: 978-8189485047

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This handbook of Asanas gives detailed description of the technique of nearly every Asana that has a physical or a spiritual value. With a view to making the description more intelligible each Asana has been fully illustrated.