Thye Mudrarakshasa, unlike the majority of sanskrit plays, is purely a political drama. It has for its theme, besides elevation of Chandragupta to the throne of Magadha, wining over of Rakashsa, the hostile minister of the Nanda dynasty to the...

Lakshmi Bandlamudi's description of her journey to Kailash and Manasarover, representing as they do Purusha and Prakriti, the masculine and the feminine nature of existence, is deeply moving because she connects it to her own inner spiritual quest. Replete with...

It is the compelling story of one of the great mystics of our time Mother Anasuya Devi of Jillellamudi was revered by millions in southern India for her home-spun wisdom, motherly love and extraordinary spiritual powers. Her profound yet enigmatic...

A collection of biographies of influential monks and spiritual leaders. Explores religious practices and mystical traditions across Asia. A valuable resource for students of comparative religion. Highlights the interplay between magic, faith, and history.

In this Madhyamakalamkara the great Indian master, Santaraksita, reveals how the path of reasoning can lead the mind to increasingly profound insight and experience and how the process of refining our view of reality through intelligent and open-minded enquiry can...

Swami Satchidanandendra's major work represents the first large-scale critical history of Advaita Vedanta ever attempted. It seek to establish a clear view of the traditional Advaita Vedanta based on the Upanishads, Brahma Sutras and Bhagavad Gita as systematised by Shankara...

The Vyādīyaparibhāṣāvṛtti is the earliest Sanskrit work entirely devoted to discussing the metarules and underlying assumptions of Panini's formal grammar of Sanskrit (5th-4th century BC). As such, it has much to teach us about the early development of ideas in...

This book is an exploration of the metaphors that under pin Buddhism as a religious and cultural system. A focal point for the exploration is provided by the enchanting and richly metaphorical Sanskrit text, the Saundarananda, by the Buddhist monk...

ग्रन्थ परिचय: मेलापक मीमांसा उन अनिर्वचनीय संकल्पों का साकार स्वरूप है जो मेलापक के विधान से सम्बन्धित एवं सर्वोपयोगी विशद विषय से सम्बद्ध, सघन सामग्री तथा समृद्ध शोध के अभाव के फलस्वरूप अंकुरित, प्रस्फुटित, पल्लवित, पुष्पित हुए थे। असंतुलित, अस्थिर,...

Meghdutum-Kalidasvirchit (Sansarchand): Sanskrit-Hindi anuvad va vyakhya.

Meghaduta of Kalidas: Edited with Introduction and English Translation

Meetings with Ramakrishna is a dramatic retelling for contemporary Westerners, of a series of encounters with the great Bengali sage Ramakrishna (1836-1886), who proclaimed the oneness of all religions and the worship of the blissful Divine Mother. By turn playful,...