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Svetasvataropanisad
Nicolas-Hays, Inc 2011; US$ 29.95The Svetasvataropanisad is considered to be the most beautiful of all the Upanisads, the philosophical texts of the Hindu religion. In this new translation, Devadatta Kali takes a fresh look, and works from a new premise that the Svetasvatara represents a Saivite (one of the Hindu sects) point of view. This he claims, allows its intended meaning... more...
Ramayana
Penguin Books Ltd 2007; Not AvailableThe popular classic in which good vanquishes evil, now in a pocket-friendly version for children The Ramayana is one of the best-known epics in the world?the tale of Rama, the prince of Ayodhya, who exiles himself to the forest for fourteen years to honour his father?s word. In the forest, Rama, his wife Sita and his brother Lakshmana meet new friends... more...
The Essential Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita
New World Library 2010; US$ 12.95In Essential Wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita, longtime Gita student and scholar Jack Hawley has extracted the pure wisdom of the text and presented it in a format that is easy to read. more...
Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 26.99Chatterji's "Anandamath" helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. This book not only provides an English translation of this important work, but also supplies an introduction, contextualizing the novel and its cultural and political history. more...
Indian Epigraphy
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 134.99This text surveys all the inscriptional material - documents written in ink on various surfaces, or carved into stone and metal, as well as seals - in the Indo-Aryan languages. It presents the corpus of these inscriptions in a way which should be accessible to both specialists and non-specialists. more...
Paths to God
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 12.12For centuries, readers have turned to the Bhagavad Gita for inspiration and guidance as they chart their own spiritual paths. As profound and powerful as this classic text has been for generations of seekers, integrating its lessons into the ordinary patterns of our lives can ultimately seem beyond our reach. Now, in a fascinating series of reflections,... more...
Bhagavad Gita
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95The Bhagavad Gita , one of the most sacred and venerated Hindu texts, is a series of conversations between the Lord Krishna – the divine one – and the warrior prince Arjuna in the prelude to the Kurukshetra war. Consisting of seven hundred stanzas and dealing with parables, and analogies covering the Yogic and Vedantic philosophies, it... more...
The Hindus
Penguin Group US 2009; US$ 25.00"Don't miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher." - The Washington Post An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological... more...
Reincarnation and the Law of Karma
The Floating Press 1908; US$ 5.99There are many forms of belief - many degrees of doctrine - regarding Reincarnation, as we shall see as we proceed, but there is a fundamental and basic principle underlying all of the various shades of opinion, and divisions of the schools. This fundamental belief may be expressed as the doctrine that there is in man an immaterial Something (called... more...
Debi Chaudhurani; or, The Wife Who Came Home
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 37.99This is the second in a trilogy of works by the famed Bengali novelist Bankimcandra Chatterji (1838-1894), and the second to be translated by Julius Lipner. The first, Anandamath, or The Sacred Brotherhood was published by OUP in 2005. Bankim Chatterji was perhaps the foremost novelist and intellectual mediating western ideas to India in the latter... more...









