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Hindu Rites and Rituals

Author : K V Singh
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9385890042
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Hindu Rites and Rituals written by K V Singh and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is the tulsi considered sacred? What is the significance of namaste? Why do Hindus light a lamp before performing a ritual? Why is it forbidden to sleep facing the south? Why do Hindus chant 'shanti' three times after performing a rite? Millions of Hindus the world over grow up observing rites, rituals and religious practices that lie at the heart of Hinduism, but which they don't know the significance of. Often the age-old customs, whose relevance is lost to modern times, are dismissed as meaningless superstitions. The truth, however, is that these practices reveal the philosophical and scientific approach to life that has characterized Hindu thought since ancient times; it is important to revive their original meanings today. This handy book tells the fascinating stories and explains the science behind the Hindu rites and rituals that we sometimes follow blindly. It is essential reading for anyone interested in India's cultural tradition.

How to Kill a Dragon

Author : Calvert Watkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195085957
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a Dragon written by Calvert Watkins and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In How to Kill a Dragon Calvert Watkins follows the continuum of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages, from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. He uses the comparative method to reconstruct traditional poetic formulae of considerable complexity that stretch as far back as the original common language. Thus, Watkins reveals the antiquity and tenacity of the Indo-European poetic tradition. Watkins begins this study with an introduction to the field of comparative Indo-European poetics; he explores the Saussurian notions of synchrony and diachrony, and locates the various Indo-European traditions and ideologies of the spoken word. Further, his overview presents case studies on the forms of verbal art, with selected texts drawn from Indic, Iranian, Greek, Latin, Hittite, Armenian, Celtic, and Germanic languages. In the remainder of the book, Watkins examines in detail the structure of the dragon/serpent-slaying myths, which recur in various guises throughout the Indo-European poetic tradition. He finds the "signature" formula for the myth--the divine hero who slays the serpent or overcomes adversaries--occurs in the same linguistic form in a wide range of sources and over millennia, including Old and Middle Iranian holy books, Greek epic, Celtic and Germanic sagas, down to Armenian oral folk epic of the last century. Watkins argues that this formula is the vehicle for the central theme of a proto-text, and a central part of the symbolic culture of speakers of the Proto-Indo-European language: the relation of humans to their universe, the values and expectations of their society. Therefore, he further argues, poetry was a social necessity for Indo- European society, where the poet could confer on patrons what they and their culture valued above all else: "imperishable fame."

Ocean of Sound

Author : David Toop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Ocean of Sound written by David Toop and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ocean of Sound" begins in 1889 at the Paris Exposition when Debussy first heard Javanese music performed. A culture absorbed in perfume, light and ambient sound developed in response to the intangibility of 20th century communications. David Toop traces the evolution of this culture, through Erik Satie to the Velvet Undergound; Miles Davis to Jimi Hendrix. David Toop, who lives in London, is a writer, musician and recording artist. His other books are "Rap Attack 3 "and "Exotica,"

Intangible Heritage Embodied

Author : D. Fairchild Ruggles
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441900721
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Intangible Heritage Embodied written by D. Fairchild Ruggles and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-12 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological research has long focused on studying tangible artifacts to build a picture of the cultures it examines. Equally important to understanding a culture, however, are the intangible elements that become part of its heritage. In 2003, UNESCO adopted a convention specifically to protect intangible heritage, including the following: oral traditions and expressions, including language; performing arts (such as traditional music, dance, and theater); social practices, rituals, and festive events; knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe; and traditional craftsmanship. Since this convention was adopted, scholars and preservationists have struggled with how to best approach intangible heritage. This volume specifically focuses on embodied intangible heritage, or the human body as a vehicle for memory, movement, and sound. The contributors to this work examine ritual and artistic movement, theater, music, oral literature, as well as the role of the internet in cultural transmission. Globalization and particularly the internet, has a complex effect on the transmission of intangible heritage: while music, dance, and other expressions are now shared easily, the performances often lack context and may be shared with a group that does not fully understand what they are seeing or hearing. This volume draws on case studies from around the world to examine the problems and possibilities of implementing the new UNESCO convention. The findings in this volume will be vital to both professionals and academics in anthropology, archaeology, history, museum studies, architecture, and anyone else who deals with issues of cultural heritage and preservation.

The Post Office

Author : Rabindranath Tagore
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Post Office written by Rabindranath Tagore and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Hare Krishna Explosion (English)

Author : Hayagriva Dasa
Publisher : Golden Age Media
ISBN 13 : 9389050596
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Hare Krishna Explosion (English) written by Hayagriva Dasa and published by Golden Age Media . This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first draft of The Hare Krishna Explosion was written in July 1969 just after Srila Prabhupada’s first visit to New Vrindavan. At that time Hayagriva realized that the details of the beginnings of the Krishna Consciousness Movement had best be recorded when the events were still fresh. Working from notebooks, diaries and memories he compiled the first edition in a month. Then the manuscript remained packed away until Srila Prabhupada left the mortal world in 1977.

A Transcendental Diary

Author : Hari Śauri Dāsa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780963335531
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book A Transcendental Diary written by Hari Śauri Dāsa and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Powerful Ephemeral

Author : Carla Bellamy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520950453
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Powerful Ephemeral written by Carla Bellamy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-08-05 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The violent partitioning of British India along religious lines and ongoing communalist aggression have compelled Indian citizens to contend with the notion that an exclusive, fixed religious identity is fundamental to selfhood. Even so, Muslim saint shrines known as dargahs attract a religiously diverse range of pilgrims. In this accessible and groundbreaking ethnography, Carla Bellamy traces the long-term healing processes of Muslim and Hindu devotees of a complex of dargahs in northwestern India. Drawing on pilgrims’ narratives, ritual and everyday practices, archival documents, and popular publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers questions about the nature of religion in general and Indian religion in particular. Grounded in stories from individual lives and experiences, The Powerful Ephemeral offers not only a humane, highly readable portrait of dargah culture, but also new insight into notions of selfhood and religious difference in contemporary India.

Aurangzeb

Author : Audrey Truschke
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 9780143442714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Aurangzeb written by Audrey Truschke and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aurangzeb Alamgir (r. 1658-1707), the sixth Mughal emperor, is widely reviled in India today. ... While many continue to accept the storyline peddled by colonial-era thinkers--that Aurangzeb, a Muslim, was a Hindu-loathing bigot--there is an untold side to him as a man who strove to be a just, worthy Indian king.

Inside Indian Indenture

Author : Ashwin Desai
Publisher : HSRC Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780796922441
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (224 download)

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Download or read book Inside Indian Indenture written by Ashwin Desai and published by HSRC Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many were filled with hopes as high as the stars as they crossed the Indian Ocean, making their way from India to Durban in southern Africa in the late 1800s. Yet, realising the dream of a better life and returning home triumphant was not to be for many. Thousands returned with less than they had started out with, only to find that home was no longer the place they had left. The travellers, too, had changed irrevocably: caste had been transgressed, relatives had died and spaces for reintegration had closed up as colonialism tightened its grip. Home for these wandering exiles was no more.

&quot;Rama&'s Last Act&quot;

Author : Bhavabhūti
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814767338
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book &quot;Rama&'s Last Act&quot; written by Bhavabhūti and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Rama’s Last Act” by Bhava·bhuti is counted among the greatest Sanskrit dramas. The work at once dramatizes the “Ramáyana”—it is one of the earliest theatrical adaptations of Valmíki’s epic masterpiece—and revises its most intractable episode, the hero’s rejection of his beloved wife. Human agency in the face of destiny, the power of love, and the capacity of art to make sense of such mysteries are the themes explored in this singular literary achievement of the Indian stage. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org

The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi

Author : Sarada Devi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi written by Sarada Devi and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recorded conversations and reminiscences can help you sense the spiritual power of the Holy Mother. The most complete collection available.

Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Essays in Perspective

Author : Bhabatosh Chatterji
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bankimchandra Chatterjee, Essays in Perspective written by Bhabatosh Chatterji and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Present Collection Of Essays Covers Several Aspects Of BankimchandraýS Personality And Genius, Seen From Contrary Angles To Which Eminent Critics And Scholars, Indian And Western Have Contributed. Apart From Valuable Studies Of The Many Aspects Of BankimchandraýS Art And Thought, The Volume Also Contains, In The Appendices, A Full And Comprehensive Chronicle Of His Life, Year To Year, A Bibliography Of His Publications In English, Bengali And Other Indian Languages, An English Renderings Of The Prologue And The First Chapter Of Anandamath By Sri Aurobindo, And Excerpts From The Authors Ideas And Speculations.

Courage and Conviction

Author : V. K. Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789382277576
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (775 download)

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Download or read book Courage and Conviction written by V. K. Singh and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of a retired General of the Indian Army.

Bhagavad-Gītā

Author : Madhusūdana Sarasvatī
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1054 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Bhagavad-Gītā written by Madhusūdana Sarasvatī and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Madhusudana Sarasvati's most famous work, Advaitasiddhi, helped to establish monism on a logical basis by refuting all criticisms of it by other schools. In his commentary on the Bhagavad Gita, however, he set forth a philosophy of life which also recognised other ways of spiritual development -- such as Yoga, devotion to God, and the analytical penetration of Samkhya. Here, Madhusudana gave the highest place to the cultivation of devotion. The present work of Madhusudana, the Gudhartha Dipika (an Annotation Revealing the True Import of the Gita) is probably the greatest of his many literary works. Though there are many classical commentaries on the Gita, this work stands next only to Sri Shankaracharya's commentary as regards clarity, depth, and originality.

Mahabharat's Stories

Author : Seema Bharti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387649712
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Mahabharat's Stories written by Seema Bharti and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I travel with time back and forth I witness the rise and fall of kings Humans become big and small with their deeds irrespective of their birth What is created is bound to perish with time All is left behind are lessons to be learnt. Pandavs are a set of five step-brothers married to the same woman, Draupadi. She is the most powerful female character and becomes the pivot point of the battle. The brothers are led by Arjun, who is one of them. Krishna is the mentor who grooms his protégé Arjun for the battle against injustice. While Arjun is reluctant and guilt ridden to fight relations for the sake of a kingdom, Krishna explains to him his duty as a warrior and human being.

Shades of Saffron

Author : Saba Naqvi
Publisher : Westland Publication Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789387578333
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Shades of Saffron written by Saba Naqvi and published by Westland Publication Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The BJP enjoys the predominant position in Indian politics today. In its journey from coalition politics to single-power hegemony, it has emerged as a very different entity from the one that came to power in 1998. Naqvi tells the story from the party's founding in n1980 to its two stints in power.