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Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 0237536374
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana and Hinduism written by Anita Ganeri and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 9780237523473
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana and Other Hindu Texts written by Anita Ganeri and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of little-known military heroes such as Stephen Decatur, "Fighting Fred" Funston, and Smedley Butler. From 1800 to the present day, such undeclared wars have made up the vast majority of our military engagements. Yet the military has often resisted preparing itself for small wars, preferring instead to train for big conflicts that seldom come. Boot re-examines the tragedy of Vietnam through a "small war" prism. He concludes with a devastating critique of the Powell Doctrine and a convincing argument that the armed forces must reorient themselves to better handle small-war missions, because such clashes are an inevitable result of America's far-flung imperial responsibilities.
Author : Singh M Parashar
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1984590839
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Hinduism and Ramayana written by Singh M Parashar and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ramayana gives importance to truthfulness , charity , obedience to parents and other virtues . God Rama is different from historical Rama . Sita told the demons that she was not knowing Hanuman .Sita had received from Hanuman Rama’s finger ring , and she had given to Hanuman her jewels . Sita uttered a lie . Hence , Sita was not a divine being . Rama killed Vali by fraud . Rama killed a shudra Shambuka for making a yogic penance .God is all-knowing Rama was not knowing if Sita was pure or impure . A test of Sita was conducted in a fire . Rama was not knowing that the golden deer was demon Maricha .Ramayana has failed to put an end to the abduction and selling of women to brothels .Ramayana creates false beliefs in the caste system , the doctrine of correspondence , idolatry , incarnation of God in human form , doctrine of boon , curse , fate , omens , dreams , astrology , miracles etc. Valmiki is responsible for high rate of suicides in india . Rama was a non-vegetarian . Hence , a ban on eating beef is immoral .Guru Gobind Singh asked people to use sword for the protection of righteousness and justice . Guru Gobind Singh said that Rama was not a God . Martyr Satwant Singh said :” I do not want to escape from the cycle of birth and rebirth . I want to take birth again and again and become martyr again and again” . Wise Bodhisattvas said that a service done to society is better than seeking Nirvana . Vedas , Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana should be published onl y after removing few pages containing the caste system .There is no penal code in Ramayana . The penal code of Manu is weak and Manu needs a h elp from Mose s . In the eyes of hinduism homosexuality was always a crime . Innocent people have to reap what is sown be evil doers .People should boycott the courts of India till a privatisation of judiciary takes place and cases are decided within six months . This book contains a solution for bringing hindu muslim conflicts to an end . Hinduism was reformed by Brahmosmaj , Aryasamaj and Sikhism . The blood and seed of Hindus and muslims is same . There is s an urgent need for making more reforms in Hinduism . Long live Nathu Ram Godse
Author : Swami Achuthananda
Publisher : Relianz Communications Pty Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0975788345
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Rama and the Early Avatars of Vishnu written by Swami Achuthananda and published by Relianz Communications Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-03 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-blown trade wars, nuclear threats, attacks on nation's sovereignty...are we dangerously at the crossroads of a world war that may even threaten entire humanity? Maybe we are, but fear not. Hindus believe that whenever cosmic balance is threatened, Vishnu descends into the world as an avatar of change. "I am born age after age," says Krishna (Vishnu) in the Bhagavad Gita. Vishnu has many avatars, but his top ten avatars are special and known as the Dashavataras. In this volume, we enter the most exciting part of Hindu mythology--the Dashavataras--and discuss the early avatars of Vishnu. The avatar saga begins with a wicked demon stealing the Vedas while Brahma is sleeping. Vishnu takes the form of a giant fish and not only saves the Vedas but rescues mankind from a great deluge. As we progress through the avatars, you will come across Prahlada, whose story offers a shining example of the extent to which Vishnu would go to protect his devotees. In another incarnation of Vishnu, a generous king called Bali is dispatched to the netherworld for being too ambitious. While ambition is a virtue, not vice, this may seem unfair to the people of Kerala who hold Bali in high esteem. But Vishnu makes amends by bestowing the gift of longevity on Bali. Next, the axe-wielding Parashurama, a Brahmin by birth, embarks on a mission to exterminate the warrior caste from the face of Earth--and largely succeeds until he bumps into another avatar of Vishnu. The highlight of this volume undoubtedly is Rama, the hero of the Ramayana and a name that is synonymous with dharma (religious duty). About half the book is dedicated to Rama as we dissect Ramayana in detail, particularly the controversies. Although Rama is famous for defeating the ten-headed demon king of Lanka, it seems he waged a bigger battle with the dictates of dharma--and lost. We meet the monkey-faced Hanuman for the first time in this book. He is closely associated with Rama and highly revered among Hindus. Also in the Ramayana, we encounter one of the ultimate villains of Hindu mythology--the mighty Ravana. Even though Ravana abducted Rama's beloved wife, Sita, you will be surprised to know that not everyone regards Ravana as an antihero. In fact, at the end of the Ramayana, we are left with many bitter, thought-provoking questions that are debated even today.
Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9385990543
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (859 download)
Download or read book What Came First written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Itihas means this is how it was, this is how it is, and this is how it will continue to be. It means history, but it also means timeless. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata form a rich tapestry of Indian itihas. Which came first–the Ramayana or the Mahabharata? Are they actually historical events? Which one has Krishna’s raas-leela? Where is Shiva in this? What about the Devi? India’s favourite mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik tells you everything you didn’t know about our myths–a story born 2000 years ago teaching us the ageless tale of how to live in grace. Did you know the Laxman-rekha didn’t exist in the original Ramayana? Or that Radha is never mentioned in the original Krishna story? Perfect for this festive season, find out all this and more in this short, sweet read from Devlok.
Author : Anita Ganeri
Publisher : Turtleback
ISBN 13 : 9780613794800
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)
Download or read book Ramayana and Hinduism written by Anita Ganeri and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Texts is an extraordinary introduction to six of the world's most prominent religions. Each book examines a holy text in depth as well as its context within the origins, beliefs, and rituals of the religion. Through stories, artwork, and photos, re
Author : Jonah Blank
Publisher : Grove Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802137333
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Arrow of the Blue-skinned God written by Jonah Blank and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka.
Author : Ajay K. Rao
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134077424
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Re-figuring the Ramayana as Theology written by Ajay K. Rao and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-03 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rāmāyana of Vālmīki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text. But this understanding is in part the result of a transformation of the epic’s receptive history, a hermeneutic project which challenged one characterization of the genre of the text, as a work of literary culture, and replaced it with another, as a work of remembered tradition. This book examines Rāmāyana commentaries, poetic retellings, and praise-poems produced by intellectuals within the Śrīvaisnava order of South India from 1250 to 1600 and shows how these intellectuals reconceptualized Rāma’s story through the lens of their devotional metaphysics. Śrīvaisnavas applied innovative interpretive techniques to the Rāmāyana, including allegorical reading, ślesa reading (reading a verse as a double entendre), and the application of vernacular performance techniques such as word play, improvisation, repetition, and novel forms of citation. The book is of interest not only to Rāmāyana specialists but also to those engaged with Indian intellectual history, literary studies, and the history of religions.
Author : Mandakranta Bose
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198037635
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)
Download or read book The R-am-aya.na Revisited written by Mandakranta Bose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramayana is one of India's foundational epics, and it demonstrates a continuing power to influence social, religious, cultural, and political life. Brought to textual life in Sanskrit by the legendary "first poet," Valmiki, over the ensuing centuries the tale has been recycled with extraordinary adaptability and diversity through the varied cultural heritages of India and other parts of Asia. The basic tale of the Ramayana is continually adapted to new contexts, forms, and media. It is read, recited, sung, danced, and acted in one form or another, and renewed so constantly by changing times and values that it demands constant revaluation. The Ramayana Revisited presents the latest in Ramayana scholarship. Fourteen leading scholars examine the epic in its myriad contexts throughout South and Southeast Asia. They explore the role the narrative plays in societies as varied as India, Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia. The essays also expand the understanding of the "text" to include non-verbal renditions of the epic, with particular attention to the complex ways such retellings change the way the narrative deals with gender. This volume will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in mythology, Hinduism, Asian studies, and anthropology.
Author : Daljit Nagra
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571294898
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book Ramayana written by Daljit Nagra and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attributed to Valmiki, thought to be India's first poet, the Ramayana's origins date back thousands of years when it was first committed to Sanskrit. Since then, generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama's quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld. The tale has been celebrated in many languages and has spread to many other countries including Nepal, Tibet, Thailand, Burma, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia. It is used as a Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Islamic, Sikh as well as a secular text, and lives in in many art forms too: in drama and dance, in sculpture and painting, in prose and in poetry. Daljit Nagra was captivated by the versions his grandparents regaled him with as a child. Now an award-winning poet of dazzling gifts, he has chosen to bring the story to life in a vivid and enthralling version of his own. Accessible and engaging, and bursting with energy, Nagra's Ramayana is a distillation and an animation for readers of all ages, whether familiar with or entirely new to this remarkable tale.
Author : Vālmīki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1933 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana written by Vālmīki and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1933 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paula Richman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197552536
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Performing the Ramayana Tradition written by Paula Richman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ramayana, one of the two pre-eminent Hindu epics, has played a foundational role in many aspects of India's arts and social norms. For centuries, people learned this narrative by watching, listening, and participating in enactments of it. Although the Ramayana's first extant telling in Sanskrit dates back to ancient times, the story has continued to be retold and rethought through the centuries in many of India's regional languages, such as Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali. The narrative has provided the basis for enactments of its episodes in recitation, musical renditions, dance, and avant-garde performances. This volume introduces non-specialists to the Ramayana's major themes and complexities, as well as to the highly nuanced terms in Indian languages used to represent theater and performance. Two introductions orient readers to the history of Ramayana texts by Tulsidas, Valmiki, Kamban, Sankaradeva, and others, as well as to the dramaturgy and aesthetics of their enactments. The contributed essays provide context-specific analyses of diverse Ramayana performance traditions and the narratives from which they draw. The essays are clustered around the shared themes of the politics of caste and gender; the representation of the anti-hero; contemporary re-interpretations of traditional narratives; and the presence of Ramayana discourse in daily life.
Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Penguin Books India
ISBN 13 : 9780143065289
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)
Download or read book The Book of Ram written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2015 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He Is Eka-Vachani, A King Who Always Keeps His Word; Eka-Bani, An Archer Who Strikes His Target With The First Arrow; And Eka-Patni, A Husband Who Is Eternally And Absolutely Devoted To A Single Wife. He Is Maryada Purushottam Ram, The Supreme Upholder Of Social Values, The Scion Of The Raghu Clan, Jewel Of The Solar Dynasty, The Seventh Avatar Of Vishnu, God Who Establishes Order In Worldly Life. Hindus Believe That In Stressful And Tumultuous Times Chanting Ram&Rsquo;S Name And Hearing His Tale, The Ramayan, Brings Stability, Hope, Peace And Prosperity. Reviled By Feminists, Appropriated By Politicians, Ram Remains Serene In His Majesty, The Only Hindu Deity To Be Worshipped As A King.
Author : V. K. Sinha
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 9781647838737
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (387 download)
Download or read book Updating Hindu Mythologicals: Ulta Ramayan (the Rama - Ravana Saga) written by V. K. Sinha and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story written in the Ramayana seems to be very simple and straightforward, but it hides many secrets in its bosom. For the layman it is a story of good versus evil with evil getting a beating and good, being victorious, getting a rousing welcome. But there are many details that, if read carefully, reveal many secrets that have been hidden from the general society. The present author has tried to reveal those secrets but because of lack of space has limited himself to the revelation of just a few of those secrets. After a proper study, it seems that Ravana was not as bad as has been made out to be. It seems he had many grand ideas, but because the war was lost, the ideas also died. One of them, not mentioned in the book because of the lack of full details is that he had a medical system similar to the Red Cross that we have today. Similarly, there are many other details of Ravana that have been described. It turns out that Ravana was not that bad a person nor was it that Rama that did not have any fault in him. Ramayana emphasises that the victor is always a good and revered person and the loser is cursed by society.
Author : Valmiki
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465577920
Total Pages : 4601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (655 download)
Download or read book The Ramayana (Complete) written by Valmiki and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 4601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The immortal Epic of Valmiki is undoubtedly one of the gems of literature,—indeed, some considering it as the Kohinur of the literary region, which has for centuries, and from a time reaching to the dim and far past been shedding unparalleled and undying halo upon the domain presided over by "the vision and the faculty divine." The burthen of the bard's song is the perpetual contest between good and evil,that is everywhere going on in this mysteriously-ordered world of ours,and which seemingly sometimes ending in the victory of the former,and at others in that of the latter,vitally and spiritually results in the utter overthrow and confusion of evil and in the triumph and final conquest of good. Rāma sprung from the bright loins of the effulgent luminary of day, and bringing his life and being from a long and illustrious ancestry of sovereigns, Rāma taking birth among the sons of men for chastising and repressing rampant Iniquity and Injustice, typifies the spirit of good that obtains in this world,—Rāvana, that grim and terrible Ten-headed one, a Rakshasa by virtue of birth, and worthy to be the chief and foremost of Rākshasas by virtue of his many misdeeds and impieties, who challenges and keeps in awe the whole host of the celestials—"to whom the Sun did not shine too hot, and about whom the Wind did not dare to breathe," represents the spirit of unrighteousness and evil. Lakshmana, disregrading the pomp and splendours of princely life, to follow his beloved brother Rāma into the forest, and cheerfully undergoing there a world of trials and privations, and daily and nightly keeping watch and ward over his brother and his spouse in their cottage,—and Bharata, stoutly and persistently declining, despite the exhortations of the elders and the spiritual guides, to govern the kingdom during Rāma's absence in the forest, and holding the royal umbrella over his brother's sandals,are personations of the ne plus ultra of fraternal love, and consummate and perfect ideals of their kind. The righteous Bibhishana, who for Rāma's cause forsook his royal brother, and set small store by the splendours of royalty, who suffered no earthly considerations to interfere with his entire and absolute devotion to his friend, embodies in his person the sterling virtues going under the precious name of friendship. The ever-devoted Hanumana glorying in the appellation of Rāma's servant,—ever-prompt at the beck and call of his master to lay down his life—is the grandest and loftiest conception of the faithful servant that is to be found in all literature. Shall we say aught of Rāma and Sitā, or keep silence over themes too sacred for babblement and frofane mouthing? The kingdom is astir and alive with the jubilations of the populace at the prospect of Rāma's coronation; pennons by thousands are streaming like meteors in the air at the tops of stately edifices; and drums and panavas and other musical instruments are sounding forth the auspicious anouncement. The royal household swims in a sea of bliss surging and heaving on all sides. Delight and Joy move about and laugh and talk under the names of Daçarātha and Kaucalya. Anon a thunder-clap bursts in the midst of the Merry-making, and converts delight into dole, the sounds of laughter and hilarity into loud wails and lamentations issuing from hearts knowing no consolation.
Author : Karline McLain
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253220521
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (532 download)
Download or read book India's Immortal Comic Books written by Karline McLain and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the ACK production offices and had many conversations with Anant Pai, founder and publisher, and with artists, writers, and readers about why the comics are so popular and what messages they convey. In this intriguing study, she explores the making of the comic books and the kinds of editorial and ideological choices that go into their production.
Author : William Joseph Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Purānic. Illustrated written by William Joseph Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
