Ravana, The Great King of Lanka

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Ravana, The Great King of Lanka written by M S Purnalingam Pillai and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAVANA The Great King of Lanka BY M S PURNALINGAM PILLAI first published in 1923. If the hasty Reader, who has professed himself to be a highly discerning critic and to be endowed with the indispensable technique of the proverbial Indian 'annam' or swan, should chance to come across this little book, he would certainly play to the gallery with the blazing head-line Rakshas ! Excelsior ! It is hard to expect that men who have moved in particular grooves for years will ever easily get out of them or that the deep-rooted prejudices consecrated by time and circumstances will die an easy death. The much-maligned Ravana of the earliest Aryan Chronicler and purana writer and of the thoughtless Dravidian echoer of subsequent times cannot have his merits-and virtues duly recognized until English education, now pursued merely as bread-study, broadens and liberalizes the cramped and idea-obsessed Indian mind and wipes out his slave mentality altogether. If this booklet will provoke thought on the subject, its author will feel amply repaid for his labours.

King of Lanka

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184756208
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Book Synopsis King of Lanka by : David Hair

Download or read book King of Lanka written by David Hair and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For four teenagers, the Ramayana is not just a tale. It is their fate! In every life they have ever lived, Vikram, Amanjit, Rasita and Deepika have been persecuted and killed by Ravindra, who aspires to the throne of Ravana the Demon-King. Now Rasita is a captive of Ravindra, and demonic beings thought to be mythical are rallying to him. His triumph seems inevitable. Vikram and Amanjit must rescue her. This time, failure is not an option. This time, if Ravindra wins, it will be forever. But slowly, pieces are falling into place. Why are they reliving the Ramayana? Who was Ravana? Where is the real Lanka? Age-old mysteries are uncovered and forgotten powers regained, as the quest to end the tyranny of Ravindra moves towards a finale that is as startling as it is electrifying.

Ravana, King of Lanka

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Publisher : Asian Educational Services
ISBN 13 : 9788120605473
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Ravana, King of Lanka by : M. S. Purnalingam Pillai

Download or read book Ravana, King of Lanka written by M. S. Purnalingam Pillai and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Work of Kings

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226748665
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Book Synopsis The Work of Kings by : H. L. Seneviratne

Download or read book The Work of Kings written by H. L. Seneviratne and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Work of Kings is a stunning new look at the turbulent modern history and sociology of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Monkhood and its effects upon contemporary society. Using never-before translated Sinhalese documents and extensive interviews with monks, Sri Lankan anthropologist H.L. Seneviratne unravels the inner workings of this New Buddhism and the ideology on which it is based. Beginning with Anagarika Dharmapala's "rationalization" of Buddhism in the early twentieth century, which called for monks to take on a more activist role in the community, Seneviratne shows how the monks have gradually revised their role to include involvement in political and economic spheres. The altruistic, morally pure monks of Dharamapala's dreams have become, Seneviratne trenchantly argues, self-centered and arrogant, concealing self-aggrandizement behind a façade of "social service." A compelling call for reform and a forceful analysis, The Work of Kings is essential to anthropologists, historians of religion, and those interested in colonialism, nationalism, and postcolonial politics.

The Doomed King

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ISBN 13 : 9789557743028
Total Pages : 0 pages
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The lord of lanka

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Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 8184820569
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Book Synopsis The lord of lanka by : ANANT PAI

Download or read book The lord of lanka written by ANANT PAI and published by Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 1971-04-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ambition and arrogance - these were to be the cause of Ravana's downfall. Blessed by both Brahma the creator and Shiva the destroyer, the powerful ruler of Lanka could have enjoyed fame and respect had he only reined in his arrogance. It was left to Vishnu the preserver to find a way to curb Ravana. In the process, there unfolded one of the world's most beautiful romantic sagas - the story of Rama's love for his devoted Sita.

Mandodari

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Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9353051657
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Book Synopsis Mandodari by : Manini J Anandani

Download or read book Mandodari written by Manini J Anandani and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowing from Sanghadasa's Jaina version of the Ramayana, Mandodari-one of the least known characters of the Hindu epic-is finally given a voice. Considered to be one of the most beautiful apsaras, she was married off to the mighty Ravana, the legendary king of Lanka. In her story, she speaks about her struggles after her marriage, her insecurities and her pious nature that challenged her husband's growing aspirations. She narrates the rise of Ravana's power and the blunders he made that ultimately caused the downfall of Lanka. Despite her husband's faults, Mandodari loved him and advised him to follow the path of righteousness. Ravana's defeat in a thirteen-day war turned him into a villain. But what if he were the real hero on his side of the war? What if his downfall was a result of scheming to push him out of power? This is Mandodari's story.

Exile in Colonial Asia

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Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 082485375X
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Exile in Colonial Asia by : Ronit Ricci

Download or read book Exile in Colonial Asia written by Ronit Ricci and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exile was a potent form of punishment and a catalyst for change in colonial Asia between the seventeenth and early twentieth centuries. Vast networks of forced migration supplied laborers to emerging colonial settlements, while European powers banished rivals to faraway locations. Exile in Colonial Asia explores the phenomenon of exile in ten case studies by way of three categories: “kings,” royals banished as political exiles; “convicts,” the vast majority of those whose lives are explored in this volume, sent halfway across the world with often unexpected consequences; and “commemoration,” referring to the myriad ways in which the experience and its aftermath were remembered by those exiled, relatives left behind, colonial officials, and subsequent generations of descendants, devotees, historians, and politicians. Intended for a broad readership interested in the colonial period in Asia (South and Southeast Asia in particular), the volume encompasses a range of disciplinary perspectives: anthropology, gender studies, literature, history, and Asian, Australian, and Pacific studies. In addition to presenting fascinating, little-known, and varied case studies of exile in colonial Asia and Australia, the chapters collectively offer a sweeping, contextualized, comparative approach that links the narratives of diverse peoples and locales. Rather than confining research to the European colonial archives, whenever possible the authors put special emphasis on the use of indigenous primary sources hitherto little explored. Exile in Colonial Asia invites imaginative methodological innovation in exploring multiple archives and expands our theoretical frontiers in thinking about the interconnected histories of penal deportation, labor migration, political exile, colonial expansion, and individual destinies.

Ancient Ceylon

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Total Pages : 790 pages
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Download or read book Ancient Ceylon written by Henry Parker and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Sri Lanka Reader

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822349825
Total Pages : 791 pages
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Book Synopsis The Sri Lanka Reader by : John Holt

Download or read book The Sri Lanka Reader written by John Holt and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-four images and more than ninety classic and contemporary texts introduce Sri Lankas recorded history of more than two and a half millennia.

Asura : Tale of the Vanquished

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Publisher : One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd
ISBN 13 : 938157605X
Total Pages : 504 pages
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Download or read book Asura : Tale of the Vanquished written by Anand Neelakantan and published by One Point Six Technology Pvt Ltd. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic tale of victory and defeat... The story of the Ramayana had been told innumerable times. The enthralling story of Rama, the incarnation of God, who slew Ravana, the evil demon of darkness, is known to every Indian. And in the pages of history, as always, it is the version told by the victors, that lives on. The voice of the vanquished remains lost in silence. But what if Ravana and his people had a different story to tell? The story of the Ravanayana had never been told. Asura is the epic tale of the vanquished Asura people, a story that has been cherished by the oppressed outcastes of India for 3000 years. Until now, no Asura has dared to tell the tale. But perhaps the time has come for the dead and the defeated to speak. "For thousands of years, I have been vilified and my death is celebrated year after year in every corner of India. Why? Was it because I challenged the Gods for the sake of my daughter? Was it because I freed a race from the yoke of caste-based Deva rule? You have heard the victor's tale, the Ramayana. Now hear the Ravanayana, for I am Ravana, the Asura, and my story is the tale of the vanquished." "I am a non-entity-invisible, powerless and negligible. No epics will ever be written about me. I have suffered both Ravana and Rama - the hero and the villain or the villain and the hero. When the stories of great men are told, my voice maybe too feeble to be heard. Yet, spare me a moment and hear my story, for I am Bhadra, the Asura, and my life is the tale of the loser." The ancient Asura empire lay shattered into many warring petty kingdoms reeling under the heel of the Devas. In desperation, the Asuras look up to a young saviour-Ravana. Believing that a better world awaits them under Ravana, common men like Bhadra decide to follow the young leader. With a will of iron and a fiery ambition to succeed, Ravana leads his people from victory to victory and carves out a vast empire from the Devas. But even when Ravana succeeds spectacularly, the poor Asuras find that nothing much has changed for them. It is when that Ravana, by one action, changes the history of the world.

Debunking Mythology

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781099407291
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Book Synopsis Debunking Mythology by : Aditya Satsangi

Download or read book Debunking Mythology written by Aditya Satsangi and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-05-25 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From all Vedas, we have to know Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The author,"Aditya Satsangi", is the inventor and the copyright owner of the term 'SATTOLOGY'. Sat means truth, Myth means untruth. So, Sattology is the exact antonym of Mythology.All Vedic or Dharmic Scriptures are referred to as Mythology by most residents of Western, and Middle-Eastern countries. This book removes that doubt through a series of articles and is also a political commentary on many current happenings in the world. The reader will generate love and faith in Vedic Literatures as the original thought process of humanity. This book is dedicated to all Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Jains, Ex Muslims, Dharmic Muslims, and any person who has respect for Dharma. My book is dedicated to great people of Syria, Lebanon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Indonesia, Cambodia, CIS States, China, Mongolia, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Polynesian Countries, Fiji, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago, Canada, USA and to many other countries where Dharmic people live.Hinduism, Hindutva, Buddhism, Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Jainism, Sikhism are eternally tied together as pearls of Sanatana Dharma. Sanatana Dharma is the common thread of all these faiths. Dharma is the largest faith of the planet with almost 5 Billion people on the planet. More and more people are joining he Dharma Revolution. Any logical and reasonable brain is a Dharmic brain on the planet.Western historians dismissed the history of their colonies as mythology while upholding their fake histories. Now, the colonies have risen and are claiming their respect and recognition. The first step is to Debunk all Mythology tag. Histories have to be re-written because the facts are now screaming against the tyranny of colonialists. In the series of 10 articles, the author has presented a a thought process which present Dharmic commentary on current happenings. The reader will get hooked on to the contents and the book will invigorate the mind of the reader to demand more. If this books suceeds in invigorating the thought process of intellectual mind in questioning the current history, then author considers himself a success.Current history of the world is written by colonialists, who wanted to suppress the thought process of natives. This book will give renewed confidence in 'Sattology'.

The Religious World of Kirti Sri

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355423
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Religious World of Kirti Sri written by John Clifford Holt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-28 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this interdisciplinary inquiry, John Clifford Holt seeks to uncover how Buddhism was understood and expressed during the waning years of indigenous political power in Asia's oldest continuing Buddhist culture. Holt focusses on King Kirti Sri Rajasinha and how, despite powerful and persistent Dutch colonial threats and a deeply suspicious Kandyan Buddhist Sinhalese aristocracy, he successfully revived Sinhalese Theravada Buddhism. As Holt demonstrates, Kirti Sri succeeded in formulating his vision of an orthodox Buddhism in a number of ways: through the patronage of monastic sanha and re-establishing traditional lines of ordination, translating the Pali suttas into Sinhala, sponsoring public Buddhist religious rites, and refurbishing almost all Buddhist temples in the Kandyan culture region. The ultimate aim of Holt's study is to describe and interpret Kirti Sri's articulation of a normative Buddhist world, the essentials of which remain normative for many Buddhists in the Kandyan region of Sri Lanka today. Scholars and students will find The Religious World of Kirti Sri is an indispensable resource for the understanding of orthodox Buddhism at this important historical juncture, as well as the present day.

Ravana the Great

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Total Pages : 90 pages
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Download or read book Ravana the Great written by M. S. Purnalingam Pillai and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

King of Ayodhya

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Publisher : Orbit Books
ISBN 13 : 9781841493312
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (933 download)

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Book Synopsis King of Ayodhya by : Ashok Banker

Download or read book King of Ayodhya written by Ashok Banker and published by Orbit Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Ramayana—a classic tale of war between absolute Good and Evil—was written 3,000 years ago by Valmiki, a reformed thief-turned-sage. Now, with breathtaking imagination, Indian novelist Ashok K. Banker has recreated this epic tale for modern readers everywhere. Rama, king-in-waiting, has crossed the ocean, and the great war has begun. Ravana, lord of demons, unleashes terrible sorcery to deal a crushing blow to Rama’s forces. Before they can recover, he sends forth a legion of warbred rakshasas more terrible than any seen before, and the soil of Lanka runs red with the blood of Rama’s warriors. Still, the brave vanars and bears rally and fight on, despite the formidable odds. The war descends into a brutal maelstrom as champions die and heroes sacrifice their lives for Rama’s cause. And then Ravana commits the most dreaded act of all: rather than surrender Sita, he executes her before Rama’s eyes. On this darkest day, it hardly seems to matter that Rama’s exile is ended, and that he is now free to return to his homeland to claim his rightful place—as King of Ayodhya.

The Ramayana

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Total Pages : 1933 pages
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Book Synopsis The Ramayana by : Vālmīki

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SRI LANKA

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Total Pages : 35 pages
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Download or read book SRI LANKA written by Narayan Changder and published by CHANGDER OUTLINE. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is primarily designed for students preparing for various competitive ex- aminations. It will also be helpful for those preparing for midterm exams in schools or universities. The aim of this book is twofold: first, to help the students prepar- ing for competitive examinations, seeking admission to universities or schools, or prepare for job interviews. Second, it will also be helpful for those studying SRI LANKA. This book contains more than 259 questions from the core areas of SRI LANKA. The questions are grouped chapter-wise. There are total 1 chapters, 3 sections and 259+ MCQ with answers. This reference book provides a sin- gle source for multiple choice questions and answers in SRI LANKA. It is intended for students as well as for developers and researchers in the field. This book is highly useful for faculties and students. One can use this book as a study guide, knowledge test questions bank, practice test kit, quiz book, trivia questions . . . etc. The strategy used in this book is the same as that which mothers and grandmothers have been using for ages to induce kids in the family to sip more soup (or some other nutritious drink). The children are told that some cherries (their favourite noo- dles or cherries ) are hidden somewhere in the bowl, and that serves as an incentive for drinking the soup. In joint families, by the time the children are old enough to know the trick played by their grandma, there is usually another group of kids ready to fall for it! They excite the kids, but the real nutrition lies not in the noodles but in the soup. The problems given in this book are like those noodles/cherries while solving all these problems are nutritious soup. Now it is your choice to drink the nutritious soups or not!!!.