The Mahabharata with 110,000 verses, including an appendix, is the longest epic poem in the world literature. In the epic 2,000 verses only are the teachings of Krishna. 20,000 verses are the teachings of Bhishma, the most towering personality of...

It was in 1942 that the late Dr. V.S. Sukthankar was engaged to deliver four lectures on the 'Meaning of the Mahabharata' under the auspices of the University of Bombay. However, the fourth and last lecture was not delivered on...

This is the rarest of the rare book on spirituality. It is a thrilling account of how an earnest seeker Yogi M. K. Spencer realised God with the help of unique spiritual training imparted initially by a great master of...

In Hindu Mythology Brahma is renowned as the creator of the three worlds and of the system of rules (dharma) that holds them and their inhabitants together. This is a substantially revised edition of a book originally published in 1983...

This work is a description and explanation in fuller detail of the serpent power (Kundali Shakti) and the yoga effected through it, a subject occupying a pre-eminent place in the tantra Shastra. It consists of a translation of two Sanskrit...

The Puranas are infallible source of information of Indian history of religion, philosophy, culture and civilization, polity of society, arts and crafts, architecture and iconography besides royal dynasties and period of their rule. It was long felt that a comprehensive...

The present work has been undertaken not only to provide an adequate treatment of the position of the sudras in ancient times, but also to evaluate their modern characterizations, either based on insufficient data or inspired by reformist or anti-reformist...

The author's direct aim in the present work is to furnish the historians of the special sciences with new material which will serve to widen the scope of their survey. The Hindus no less than the Greeks have shared in...

Ancient India (PB) - By R. C. Majumdar (Author) - MLBD Publications This is a comprehensive, intelligible and interesting portrait of Ancient Indian History and Civilization from a national historical point of view. The work is divided into three broad...

All too frequently the term Vedanta is used when what is meant, whether recognized or not, is Advaita Vedanta and more specifically, the philosophical system associated with Sankaracarya. Yet in fact Vedanta, literally meaning "the concluding portions of the Veda",...

Confronted with a series of volumes called the Encyclopedia of Indian Philosophies, one is likely to ask, what constitutes philosophy in the relevant sense? Introduction to understood as investigation of the nature of and path to liberation from rebirth (moksa;nirvana),...

Encyclopaedia of Indian Philosophies : Vol. 25 - By Karl H. Potter (Author) - MLBD Publications Nyaya-Vaisesika in recent Times - Attaining liberation through knowledge and understanding of reality, but they approach this goal with distinct epistemological methods and categories....