The book presents the fundamentals of linguistics and the historical survey of languages to the reader without any complication and obscurity. It is a valuable book for students and scholars of linguistics. The author has followed the traditional order of...

In 1895 Swami Vivekananda of the Ramakrishna Mission initiated two Europeans, one a woman, into the ancient Indian tradition of sannyasa or world-renunciation. This practice was continued during the first half of the twentieth century by Swami Sivananda of Rishikesh....

India is a civilization of many images a culture of many visual feasts a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied in our kathas and...

Mahabharata hero Arjuna. It is intimate because the esoteric wisdom imparted therein, says the Lords, is "is more secret than secrecy itself" (XVII. 63). A great battle is to ensue between the two royal clans of Kauravas and Pandavas. Arjuna...

Life is not only a continuous journey, but it is also a puzzle, a mystery, a mysterious as well as a mystical experience. When you understand the principle of life, everything will fit into the puzzle. When one is ignorant,...

Book Summary of The Life Of Buddhism Bringing together fifteen essays by outstanding Buddhistscholars from Asia, Europe, and North America, this book offers a distinctiveportrayal of the "life of Buddhism". The contributors focus on anumber of religious practices across the...

Kriyas are the constructive actions we contribute to our total wellness and enlightnment, as well as the transformative actions which spontaneously occur within us as the spiritual growth is experienced. Yoga can be defined as " procedure", as "practice" and...

Kriyas are the constructive actions we contribute to our total wellness and enlightnment, as well as the transformative actions which spontaneously occur within us as the spiritual growth is experienced. Yoga can be defined as procedure as practice and as...

This volume presents a synthesized approach to horoscope compatibility analysis, developed over some years of experimentation. This approach blends the principles of compatibility analysis familiar to most practicing jyotishis with other, lesser-known techniques culled from Jyotisha's classical canon. Certain of...

Lilavati of Bhaskaracarya - A Treatise of Mathematics of Vedic Tradition The names 'Bhaskaracarya' and 'Lilavati' are well-known. If a student displays outstanding talent in Mathematics, the school teacher lovingly calls the student second Bhaskaracarya?. Many legends about Lilavati are...

In 1150 AD, Bhaskaracarya (b. 1114 AD), renowned mathematician and astronomer of Vedic tradition composed Lilavati as the first part of his larger work called Siddhanta Siromani, a comprehensive exposition of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, mensuration, number theory and related topics....

Part of the Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology series covers all the Puranas (Histories) of the Veda's. The Linga Purana is in 2 parts of that 100 volume series, and this is part one of that series. The present volume...