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Author : Adrian Storrs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Under the Pipal Tree written by Adrian Storrs and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Balkrishna Naipaul
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1465308725
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (653 download)
Download or read book Dancing Moon Under the Peepal Tree written by Balkrishna Naipaul and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: none
Author : Anjana Chowdhury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910836880
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Under the Pipal Tree written by Anjana Chowdhury and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harsha V. Dehejia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Leaves of a Pipal Tree written by Harsha V. Dehejia and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India is a civilisation of many images, a culture of many visual feasts, a tradition where the visible and the palpable are as important as the oral and the occurrent, where our highest truths are embodied in our kathas and gathas, our songs and stories, where our temples are not only places of worship but equally a gallery of beautiful forms and figures, where myth is as important as doctrine, where ancient memories are full of cherished narratives, where mythic beings are real in many different ways and we enrich our lives by festivals which celebrate events from the lives of our mythic gods and goddesses, and where knowledge is gained as much from itinerant performers as it is from learned discourses and where, when the wind blows through the Pipal tree it is as if we hear the hymns of the Vedas.Harsha V. Dehejia presents in this book selected myths and symbols from the Hindu tradition and offers a refreshingly different aesthetic and non-theistic analysis and shows how these mythic narratives and visual symbols are an alternative form of knowledge.The essays are richly illustrated with paintings andobjects from his personal collection.
Author : Greta Rana
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788177694239
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (942 download)
Download or read book A Place Beneath the Pipal Tree written by Greta Rana and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel describes the three generations of Sherpa women, the men in their lives, the times they lived in, and the dilemmas they faced. While not over romanticising the past, when it was originally written it could almost have been prophetic in its misgivings about the future in an environment governed by status and taboo, in which women have to work hard to achieve the respect that should be their birthright.
Author : David L. Haberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199929181
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)
Download or read book People Trees written by David L. Haberman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People Trees is about religious conceptions of trees within the cultural world of tree worship at the tree shrines of northern India. Sacred trees have been worshiped for millennia in India, and today tree worship continues there in abundance among all segments of society. In the past, tree worship was regarded by many Western anthropologists and scholars of religion as a prime example of childish animism or primitive religion. More recently, this aspect of world religious cultures is almost completely ignored in the theoretical concerns of the day. Incorporating ethnographic fieldwork and texts never before translated into English, David Haberman reevaluates concepts such as animism, anthropomorphism, and personhood in the context of the worship of the pipal, a tree of mighty and ambiguous power; the neem, an embodied form of a goddess whose presence is enhanced with colorful ornamentation and a facemask appended to its trunk; and the banyan, a tree noted for its association with longevity and immortality. Along with detailed descriptions of a wide range of tree worship rituals, here is a spirited exploration of the practical consequences, perceptual possibilities, and implicit environmental ethics suggested by Indian notions about sacred trees.
Author : Fred Hageneder
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811848985
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (489 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of Trees written by Fred Hageneder and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents full-color illustrated photographs that describes the botany, history, mythology, and folklore of some of the world's most unique trees including California's giant redwood.
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184754477
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)
Download or read book The Book of Nature written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over six decades, Ruskin Bond has celebrated the wonder and beauty of nature as few other contemporary writers have, or indeed can. The Book of Nature brings together the best of his writing on the natural world, not just in the Himalayan foothills, but also in the cities and small towns that he has lived in or travelled through. In these pages, you will find leopards padding down the lanes of Mussoorie after dark, the first shower of the monsoon that brings with it a tumult of new life, the chorus of insects at twilight, ancient banyan trees and the short-lived cosmos flower, among other fascinating beings. This volume proves, yet again, that for the serenity and lyricism of his prose and his sharp yet sympathetic eye, Ruskin Bond has few equals.
Author : Wendy Doniger
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520040984
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (49 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology written by Wendy Doniger and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1980-10-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a subject rarely studied, the author shows there is a history of ideas about evil in Hinduism.
Author : Kumar Mahabir
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Medicinal and Edible Plants Used by East Indians of Trinidad & Tobago written by Kumar Mahabir and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. R. Rangarajan
Publisher : Scriptor Publication
ISBN 13 : 8195283640
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (952 download)
Download or read book Take a walk in the woods written by S. R. Rangarajan and published by Scriptor Publication. This book was released on 2021-10-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader to the unknown world of nature. It is an invitation to the readers, inner forests to walk in the outer Wilde's. The author is trying to unearth the connection between the hidden will and the wild Woods. He pursued his enquiry by moving around the globe and becoming an earnest student to learn more about Mother Nature. He travels through the wild forests in British Columbia searching for the Blue Mind Effect and it's proximity with water bodies. Shinrin yoku life span of people in Okinawa, and the healing code of nature everything is well explained in this book.
Author : Nanditha Krishna
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351186911
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Sacred Plants of India written by Nanditha Krishna and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plants personify the divine— The Rig Veda (X.97) Trees and plants have long been held sacred to communities the world over. In India, we have a whole variety of flora that feature in our myths, our epics, our rituals, our worship and our daily life. There is the pipal, under which the Buddha meditated on the path to enlightenment; the banyan, in whose branches hide spirits; the ashoka, in a grove of which Sita sheltered when she was Ravana’s prisoner; the tulsi, without which no Hindu house is considered complete; the bilva, with whose leaves it is possible to inadvertently worship Shiva. Before temples were constructed, trees were open-air shrines sheltering the deity, and many were symbolic of the Buddha himself. Sacred Plants of India systematically lays out the sociocultural roots of the various plants found in the Indian subcontinent, while also asserting their ecological importance to our survival. Informative, thought-provoking and meticulously researched, this book draws on mythology and botany and the ancient religious traditions of India to assemble a detailed and fascinating account of India’s flora.
Author : van den Hoek
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004643990
Total Pages : 858 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Ritual, State and History in South Asia written by van den Hoek and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-11-27 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this Festschrift extend over the whole range of Indian civilization: in the first part the earlier stages of Indian history spanning the period from the Indus civilization up to medieval times, and in the second part the more recent history of South Asia.
Author : Malati J. Shendge
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 8170170648
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Civilized Demons: The Harappans in Rigveda written by Malati J. Shendge and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth and mysticism have reigned supreme in Rgvedic interpretation for more than two millennia and a half. Even now, it cannot be said to be free of these. This study aims at completing the process of rational inquiry in Rgveda begun two centuries ago. It leaves behind myths and mystic experiences, simultaneously drawing the line between fact and fancy, which has eluded the scholars. Two types of evidence - literary and archaeological - have been used. Literary evidence ranges from Rgveda to the Brahmanas. The Archaeological material covers pre-Harappan , Harappan and post-Harappan levels. Through the interdisciplinary approach consisting of linguistic, anthropological and symbolical analysis of the material, the study emphasizes a consistently rational attitude to the study of Rgveda. In fact, as the study amply demonstrates, the fresh air of reason may change our understanding of Rgveda and also of ancient Indian history. Rgvedic hymns from this viewpoint may probably prove to be a valuable source of information of the historical events, which led to the downfall of the pre-Aryan Indus civilization. This is correlated to the archaeological material available on the Harappan sites. This is the first investigation of its kind and the conclusions of the study are no less original. Besides establishing the rationality of the Rgvedic narratives, it shows the events and their agents to be historical in the light of available archaeological material. The theory and the approach hold out a promise and may transform our understanding of these ancient compositions from myth to history.
Author : Lord Frederick Hamilton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Pall Mall Magazine written by Lord Frederick Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book New Nash's Pall Mall Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick J. Simoons
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Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plants of Life, Plants of Death written by Frederick J. Simoons and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pythagoras, the ancient Greek mathematician, did not himself eat fava beans in any form; in fact, he banned his followers from eating them. Cultural geographer Frederick Simoons disputes the contention that Pythagoras established that ban because he recognized the danger of favism, a disease that afflicts genetically-predisposed individuals who consume fava beans. Contradicting more deterministic explanations of history, Simoons argues that ritual considerations led to the Pythagorean ban. In his fascinating and thorough new study, Simoons examines plants associated with ritual purity, fertility, prosperity, and life, on the one hand, or with ritual impurity, sickness, ill fate, and death, on the other. Plants of Life, Plants of Death offers a wealth of detail from not only history, ethnography, religious studies, classics, and folklore, but also from ethnobotany and medicine. Simoons surveys a vast geographical region extending from Europe through the Near East to India and China. He tells the story of India's giant sacred fig trees, the pipal and the banyan, and their changing role in ritual, religion, and as objects of pilgrimage from antiquity to the present day; the history of mandrake and ginseng, "man roots" whose uses from Europe to China have been shaped by the perception that they are human in form; and the story of garlic and onions as impure foods of bad odor in that same broad region. Simoons also identifies and discusses physical characteristics of plants that have contributed to their contrasting ritual roles, and he emphasizes the point that the ritual roles of plants are also shaped by basic human concerns--desire for good health and prosperity, hopes for fertility and offspring, fear of violence, evil and death--that were as important in antiquity as they are today. "It dazzles as a piece of scholarship."--Daniel W. Gade, University of Vermont
