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Kalidasa For The 21St Century Reader

Author : Kalidasa
Publisher : Rupa Publications
ISBN 13 : 9789382277750
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Kalidasa For The 21St Century Reader written by Kalidasa and published by Rupa Publications. This book was released on 2014-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh and very readable translation of the world's greatest Sanskrit writer, Kalidasa ""Kalidasa(circa fourth century CE) is widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language. Not much is known with certainty about his life and though many are aware of his timeless Sakuntalam and Meghadutam, very few have actually read him, even in translation. The aesthetics of poetry may have changed over 1500 years - we no longer compare women's faces to lotuses or their figures to vines - but it is difficult not to be moved by the sheer beauty and lyricism of Kalidasa's description of the exiled yak?a beseeching a cloud to carry his message across the mountains to his lover, or his evocative narration of the meeting of doomed lovers in the forest."" ""Mani Rao's supple, contemporary translation removes the distance between Kalidasa and the modern reader, she helps 'read' the poetry for us while remaining loyal to the text. "" ""Selections from all seven of the great poet's works (which are considered by Sanskrit scholars to be authentically his creations) are included in this volume- Meghad?tam, Kumarasambhavam and ?tusa?h?ram, he heroic exploits narrated in Raghuva?sam which gives us a remarkable picture of ancient India, as well as the celebrated dramas Abhijnãna Sakuntalam, Vikramorvasiyam and Malavikagnimitram. This is a translation that belongs to today, Kalidasa renewed""

The Loom of Time

Author : Kalidasa
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141908025
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Loom of Time written by Kalidasa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-08-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kalidasa is the major poet and dramatist of classical Sanskrit literature - a many-sided talent of extraordinary scope and exquisite language. His great poem, Meghadutam (The Cloud Messenger), tells of a divine being, punished for failing in his sacred duties with a years' separation from his beloved. A work of subtle emotional nuances, it is a haunting depiction of longing and separation. The play Sakuntala describes the troubled love between a Lady of Nature and King Duhsanta. This beautiful blend of romance and comedy, transports its audience into an enchanted world in which mortals mingle with gods. And Kalidasa's poem Rtusamharam (The Gathering of the Seasons) is an exuberant observation of the sheer variety of the natural world, as it teems with the energies of the great god Siva.

Śakoontalá

Author : Kālidāsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Śakoontalá written by Kālidāsa and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Living Mantra

Author : Mani Rao
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319963910
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Living Mantra written by Mani Rao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living Mantra is an anthropology of mantra-experience among Hindu-tantric practitioners. In ancient Indian doctrine and legends, mantras perceived by rishis (seers) invoke deities and have transformative powers. Adopting a methodology that combines scholarship and practice, Mani Rao discovers a continuing tradition of visionaries (rishis/seers) and revelations in south India’s Andhra-Telangana. Both deeply researched and replete with fascinating narratives, the book reformulates the poetics of mantra-practice as it probes practical questions. Can one know if a vision is real or imagined? Is vision visual? Are deity-visions mediated by culture? If mantras are effective, what is the role of devotion? Are mantras language? Living Mantra interrogates not only theoretical questions, but also those a practitioner would ask: how does one choose a deity, for example, or what might bind one to a guru? Rao breaks fresh ground in redirecting attention to the moments that precede systematization and canon-formation, showing how authoritative sources are formed.

Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics, and Literature

Author : Jagannath Sarkar, Jayjit Basu
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 383821580X
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Geographia Literaria: Studies in Earth, Ethics, and Literature written by Jagannath Sarkar, Jayjit Basu and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By sensing the fundamental ideas of earth and the earth-thought, this collection seeks to negotiate with and react to the underlying semasiological or psycho-geographical principle of geopoetics that cuts across varied and at times conflicting schools. From reading some geopoetical texts to understanding the idea of earth in Humboldt and Marx-Engels, topolitics in Tintin, reef-thinking, geopoet(h)ics and Asiabodh, the volume tries to perceive how we poetically exist with the earth. Isn’t literature, taking a cue from Hölderlin, a symptom of the way “man lives poetically on the earth”? How is our body and psyche integral parts of the earth-thought? How does literature deal with the concepts of space and place? How literature enables us to comprehend the underlying principle of geopoetics — the principle of finding art in earth? These are some of the critical questions which this volume seeks to explore. Literature exemplifies a geographical consciousness — an “intimate and subjective” experience of the earth. This book is an attempt to conceive this eclectic infusion of art and earth, so that we are able to ensure that the world of the art always remains in touch with the earth of the world. Let us, through this book, un-earth this deep-rooted spatiality and geographicality in literature. Let us imitate earth through art, as this is the only place where we can live.

Modern India

Author : John McLeod
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1440852898
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Modern India written by John McLeod and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-volume thematic encyclopedia examines life in contemporary India, with topical sections focusing on geography, history, government and politics, economy, social classes and ethnicity, religion, food, etiquette, literature and drama, and more. Modern Indian, an addition to the Understanding Modern Nations series, is an in-depth and interdisciplinary encyclopedia. While many books on life in India exist today, this volume is unique as a concise, accessible overview of multiple aspects of Indian society and history. It will be a useful background or supplemental text for anyone interested in modern Indian life and culture. Individual chapters address all aspects of life in 21st-century India, from geography and history to economy and religion to etiquette and sports. Each chapter begins with an overview, followed by entries on, for example, major political parties or literary works. Each overview and entry is self-contained and accompanied by an up-to-date Further Reading list.

Works of Kālidāsa: Abhijñāna Śākuntalam. Vikramorvaśiyam. Mālavikāgnimitram

Author : Kālidāsa
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120800236
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Works of Kālidāsa: Abhijñāna Śākuntalam. Vikramorvaśiyam. Mālavikāgnimitram written by Kālidāsa and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1981 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises three famous plays of Kalidasa: Abhijnanasakuntalam Malavikagnimitram and Vikramorvasiyam. They represent the skill and artistry commanded by the immortal figure of Indian dramatic literature.Each of the plays opens with an Introduction. This is followed by the text in original. Then the translation of the text appears. elaborate critical explanatory notes form the last section of each play.

Works of Kālidāsa

Author : Kālidāsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Works of Kālidāsa written by Kālidāsa and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rabindranath Tagore for the 21st Century Reader

Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789382277279
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book Rabindranath Tagore for the 21st Century Reader written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabindranath Tagore is the second most popular literature laureate of all time (after John Steinbeck) according to the official website of the Nobel Prize. Writers ranked below him on the popularity chart include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Pablo Neruda and Ernest Hemingway. Tagore won the prize in 1913, but a hundred years later readers continue to flock to his work because it possesses all the qualities essential to keep it fresh and relevant despite the passage of time-big ideas, complex themes, stylistic brilliance, a deep engagement with nature, beauty, family, love, and passion, and above all, a profound timelessness. Keeping the 21st century reader firmly in mind, this volume brings together some of Tagore's most celebrated works. In The Home and the World, perhaps his most popular novel, intricate issues of devotion-to the motherland and to the family-are explored through a story of two friends and a woman coming into her own. The Monk-King, with its devious priest and marauding armies, is also about the power of sacrifice and loyalty. In 'The Laboratory', Tagore's last short story, he creates a world that is materialistic and amoral with a light yet ruthless touch. In poems like 'Camilla' and 'An Ordinary Girl' he describes the sadness of unrequited love. His drama, Chandalika, is about the angst and helplessness of being in love with an unattainable ideal. Brilliantly translated by Arunava Sinha, this selection of Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, poetry, lyrics and drama is evidence of his position as one of the world's greatest writers and reinforces the enduring nature of his words, emotions and beliefs.

Kalidasa; Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Author : Kalidasa
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539882688
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book Kalidasa; Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works written by Kalidasa and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11-02 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Sanskrit plays by Kalidasa who influenced late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century European literature. His work is noted for its portrayal of the unity of duty to one's family, religion, and society and the normative role of nature in the human world. His characters constantly make choices to uphold obligations to the institutions of faith, kin, and country in the face of terrible ethical dilemmas, thereby illustrating the ideal of virtue. In regard to the natural (nonhuman) world, Kalidasa assumed the fundamental unity of all life and recognized the dignity and value of nonhuman life.

Righteous Republic

Author : Ananya Vajpeyi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071832
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Righteous Republic written by Ananya Vajpeyi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.

Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works

Author : Kalidasa
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781722603731
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works written by Kalidasa and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa Kalidasa probably lived in the fifth century of the Christian era. This date, approximate as it is, must yet be given with considerable hesitation, and is by no means certain. No truly biographical data are preserved about the author, who nevertheless enjoyed a great popularity during his life, and whom the Hindus have ever regarded as the greatest of Sanskrit poets. We are thus confronted with one of the remarkable problems of literary history. For our ignorance is not due to neglect of Kalidasa's writings on the part of his countrymen, but to their strange blindness in regard to the interest and importance of historic fact. No European nation can compare with India in critical devotion to its own literature. During a period to be reckoned not by centuries but by millenniums, there has been in India an unbroken line of savants unselfishly dedicated to the perpetuation and exegesis of the native masterpieces. Editions, recensions, commentaries abound; poets have sought the exact phrase of appreciation for their predecessors: yet when we seek to reconstruct the life of their greatest poet, we have no materials except certain tantalising legends, and such data as we can gather from the writings of a man who hardly mentions himself. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century

Author : Debashish Banerji
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 8132220382
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Rabindranath Tagore in the 21st Century written by Debashish Banerji and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical volume addresses the question of Rabindranath Tagore's relevance for postmodern and postcolonial discourse in the twenty-first century. The volume includes contributions by leading contemporary scholars on Tagore and analyses Tagore's literature, music, theatre, aesthetics, politics and art against contemporary theoretical developments in postcolonial literature and social theory. The authors take up themes as varied as the implications of Tagore’s educational vision for contemporary India; new theoretical interpretations of gender, queer elements, feminism and subalternism in Tagore's literary and social expressions; his language use as a vehicle for a dialogue between positivism, Orientalism and other constructs in the ongoing process of globalization; the nature of the influence of Tagore's music and literature on national and cultural identity formation, particularly in Bengal and Bangladesh; and intersubjectivity and critical modernity in Tagore’s art. This volume opens up a space for Tagore’s critique and his creative innovations in present theoretical engagements.

Norton Anthology of World Religions

Author : Cunningham, Lawrence S
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393918998
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Norton Anthology of World Religions written by Cunningham, Lawrence S and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This magisterial Norton Anthology, edited by world-renowned scholars, offers a portable library of more than 1,000 primary texts from the world’s major religions. To help readers encounter strikingly unfamiliar texts with pleasure; accessible introductions, headnotes, annotations, pronouncing glossaries, maps, illustrations and chronologies are provided. For readers of any religion or none, The Norton Anthology of World Religions opens new worlds that, as Miles writes, invite us "to see others with a measure of openness, empathy, and good will..."

Unprecedented in scope and approach, The Norton Anthology of World Religions: Christianity brings together over 150 texts from the Apostolic Era to the New Millennium. The volume features Jack Miles’s illuminating General Introduction—“How the West Learned to Compare Religions”—as well as Lawrence S. Cunningham’s “The Words and the Word Made Flesh,” a lively primer on the history and core tenets of Christianity.

Kumarasambhavam

Author : Kalidasa
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351187209
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Kumarasambhavam written by Kalidasa and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kumarasambhavam celebrates the love story of Siva and Parvati, whose passionate union results in the birth of their son, the young god Kumara. Beginning with a luminous description of the birth of Parvati, the poem proceeds in perfectly pitched sensuous detail through her courtship with Siva until the night of their wedding. It plays out their tale on the immense scale of supreme divinity, wherein the gods are viewed both as lovers and as cosmic principles. Composed in eight scintillating cantos, Kumarasambhavam continues to enchant readers centuries after it was first written. Hank Heifetz's sparkling translation brings to life the heady eroticism and sumptuous imagery of the original.

Banabhatta (Sanskrit Writer)

Author : K. Krishnamoorthy
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
ISBN 13 : 9788172016746
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book Banabhatta (Sanskrit Writer) written by K. Krishnamoorthy and published by Sahitya Akademi. This book was released on 1982 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Karan Ghelo

Author : Nandshankar Mehta
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9352140117
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book Karan Ghelo written by Nandshankar Mehta and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the grip of lust, Raja Karan Vaghela abducts the beautiful Roopsundari, his prime minister Madhav’s wife. Fuelled by a desire for revenge, Madhav escapes to Delhi and persuades Sultan Alauddin Khilji to invade Gujarat and destroy Patan fort. This unleashes a dramatic chain of events that forever ends Rajput rule in Gujarat, heralding the dawn of a new age. Rich in psychological insight and imbued with a poetic vision, Karan Ghelo tells the spellbinding tale of a man who tragically failed his land and its people.