Raghuvamsa Mahakavyam-Mahakavi Kalidas Praneet (13 Sarga): Sanskrit vyakhya evam Hindi anuvad

The Ragavibodha is a masterpiece on musicology from the 17th century. It was composed by Somanatha to address the existing contradictions between the ancients’ theory and prevailing performance practices; thus making it an indispensable treatise, to be included in the...

Ragalaksanam was composed by Mudduvenkatamakhin in Tanjore in the early 18th century A.D. It is an important text of Karnataka Music and appeared in an effervescent epoch in the development of this music system of which it deals with only...

An inward exploration of diverse finer sensibilities and softer visions of life in terms of aesthetics and mystic grandeur, Rabindranath Tagore's songs of prayer unfold an unending panorama of joy, sorrow, life, death, light, light, darkness, void and fullness in...

This book is about the three published novels of S H Vatsyayan 'Ajneya' who dominated the Hindi literary scene for forty years until his death in 1987. Many Indian literary critics have written about his work but this is the...

Essentially the work is a compilation of VimalajiÍs letters written to the author who had the opportunity to live with her and witness the rhythmic, pure, meditative life dedicated for the well being of the nations. VimalajiÍs approach in dealing...

संतान जो स्वयं का ही रूपांतरित एवं परिमार्जित स्वरूप है, वह सृष्टि के सृजन का शाश्वत सत्य एवं परिवार की निरन्तरता का सुरभित, सुगन्धित, सुन्दर सेतु है, जो प्रभु की सत्ता और क्षमता को सम्यक् स्वरूप में समझने हेतु सशक्त...

In Yoga the question of boundaries, the constant talk about the various yogas, is, to a very large extent, an artificial one, mind-created. Translators and commentators have constantly and shortsightedly referred to the Gheranda Samhita as a Hatha-Yoga classic. Normally...

This book treats two representative Hindu rituals of contemporary India, Puja (offering service) and Samskara (initiation rituals at important occasions of life). Samskara rites are performed at significant junctures of an individual's life, from birth to death, by the individual's...

Here the title of this volume has been modified by the ampler designation : Verses attributed, in the tradition of the Pali Canon, to certain eminent sisters (Theri-Bhikkhunis) of the Buddhist Order, and forming the second and smaller portion of...

Beginning with the problem of evil in the west professor A.L. Herman traces the history of one of the most fascinating of all perennial philosophical puzzles. The author identifies some twenty one historical solutions to the problem which are then...

The present work is a defence of the Tantra, of which Sastra the author is an adherent and a polemic, undertaken in the interests of Hindu orthodoxy in its Sakta and Tantrika form against secularism on the one hand, and...