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Studies in the Puranic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs
The Puranas present a rich collection of materials for the study of Hindu rites and customs during the period ranging approximately from 200 to 1000 A.D. As the rites and customs were not the production of a single social dictator or of a particular period of time but were revised from generation to generation, the subject involves the perplexing problem of chronology not only of the individual Puranas but also of their chapters and parts. However, the Puranas contain evidence of their rites and customs. The present study is an attempt, on the basis of this evidence, to determine the... Read More
English, 368 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 950.00Rs. 995.00
The Rise of the Goddess in the Hindu Tradition
This book explores the rise of the Great Goddess by focusing on the development of sakt (creative energy), maya (objective illusion), and prakrti (materiality) from Vedic times to the late Puranic period. clarifying how these principles became central to her theology. About The Author: Tracy Pintchman is Assistant Professor in the Department of Theology at Loyola University of Chacago. Excerpts from Reviews: I like very much the way in which Pintchman carefully establishes the interrelationship between sakt maya, and prakrti, concept that might not at first appear to be closely connected. This book nicely reveals their organic integration, an integration that Hindu culture itself recognized and elaborated only gradually... Read More
Engish, 300 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 1,200.00
The Myths of Narasimha and Vamana
Introduction Myth creates an often paradoxical world of meaning through its unique use of language, through a combination of familiar themes yoked to inventive metaphor, of uncommon fantasy clothes in ordinary words; it is the junction of the familiar and strange, the "cosmic map of the intersecting territories of reality and fantasy." Yet as much as it reveals to us, even more is eclipsed by what myth suggests but conceals; the diverse and innumerable ideas and issues it gives rise to attest to myth's wellspring nature as well as its ultimate value. Our study of Vamana and Narasimha is foremost... Read More
Engish, 335 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 1,200.00
Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive work with special Reference to the epic and Puranic literature
This voluminous work, a storehouse of information about the Epics, Puranas and allied literature, was originally composed and published in Malayalam. It constituted the results of the author's devoted study and research extending over fourteen years. This English version of the same is to meet the growing demand of scholars interested in the study of Puranas. This stupendous work, in the form of an exhaustive descriptive index, covers the vast and varied field of ancient Indian culture in all aspects - history, geography, religion, philosophy, myths, beliefs and practices as depicted in the Epics and Puranas. The work is planned... Read More
English, 930 Pg. (HB)
Rs. 2,900.00Rs. 3,000.00
Devakatharasa
From The Jacket The Hindus speak of the three great Gods Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. These form, what is often spoken of as the Hindu Triad. In this work I have tried to give stories behind the different epithets used for these three Gods and three Main Goddesses Lakshmi, Saraswati and Durga. The work starts with Ganesh, the most popular and the foremost - God of the Hindus. Epithets in Sanskrit, are not mere name, these always carry some story behind it. Different Puranas give different stories for the same epithet. While dealing with the epithets stories behind incarnations and their form is also taken... Read More
Engish, 81 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 245.00
History and Reflections of Mahabharata Era
This book is an extract from the three sacred texts viz. Mahābhārata, Bhāgavata Purāna, and Harivansha Purāna; after dovetailing them, in chronological order. The mythology part and illogical interpolations have been purged. It gives a glimpse of ancient Indian History, which had been camouflaged by lots of nasty interpolations. It also contains the philosophy and reflections of the era and indications of highly developed Science and Technology in ancient India. The reader will find some very interesting episodes from History, interspersed in the book. About the Author Dr. M.R. Goyal, born in October 1939, is an engineer, presently working as... Read More
English, 504 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 995.00
Srimad Bhagavatam (17th Edition)
Once, when Markandeya was in his Ashrama on the banks of the river Pushpabhadra he saw that a strong gale was blowing and this was followed by a fierce storm Before many moments had passed he saw that the earth was covered with water He realized that The Great Deluge had come. Markandeya was floating on the turbulent sea which carried him away from his Ashrama. He knew not that this was Vishnumaya which he had been wanting to see. All of a Sudden he saw a Nyagrodha tree which was standing firm in the midst of the waves a... Read More
English, 808 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 1,320.00
The Sraddha: The Hindu Book of the Dead (A Treatise on the Sraddha Ceremonies)
Of the sixteen samskaras which encompass a Hindu life the last one is performed for the dead by their sons or grandsons or relatives. Many passages in the Puranas and Dharmasastras extol the role of the son in the life of a devout Hindu. The present book deals with the rite of Sraddha and vindicates the popular belief that Sraddha, being an important topic, forms an integral part of Hindu Dharmasastra. The belief in the after-death survival of deceased ancestors and their separate world belongs to the Indo-Iranian period and as such is pre-Vedic. Ancestor worship for one's prosperity, and... Read More
English, 105 Pgs. (PB)
Rs. 195.00Rs. 200.00
A History of Indian Philosophy (Vol. 2): Sankara School of Vedanta, Yogavasistha and Bhagavadgita
The work appears in five volumes. Vol. I comprises Buddhist and Jaina Philosophy and the six systems of Hindu thought, viz., Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta. Vol. II completes studies in the Sankara school of Vedanta. It also contains the philosophy of the Yogavasistha, the Bhagavadgita and speculations in the medical schools. Vol. III contains an elaborate account of the principal dualistic and pluralistic systems such as the philosophy of the Pancaratra. Bhaskara, Yamuna, Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Vijnanabhiksu and philosophical speculations of some of the selected Puranas. Vol. IV deals with the Bhagavata Purana, Madhva and his school, Vallabha,... Read More
English, 632 Pgs. (PB)
Rs. 650.00
A History of Indian Philosophy (Vol. 1): Philosophy of Buddhist, Jaina and Six Systems of Indian Thought
The work appears in five volumes. Vol. I comprises Buddhist and Jaina Philosophy and the six systems of Hindu thought, viz., Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vaisesika, Mimamsa and Vedanta. Vol. II completes studies in the Sankara school of Vedanta. It also contains the philosophy of the Yogavasistha, the Bhagavadgita and speculations in the medical schools. Vol. III contains an elaborate account of the principal dualistic and pluralistic systems such as the philosophy of the Pancaratra. Bhaskara, Yamuna, Ramanuja, Nimbarka, Vijnanabhiksu and philosophical speculations of some of the selected Puranas. Vol. IV deals with the Bhagavata Purana, Madhva and his school,... Read More
English, 544 Pgs. (HB)
Rs. 650.00
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