Shuka Saptati
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 264
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Simhasana Dvatrimsika
Author: A N D Haskar
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2007-01-07
Total Pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9352141008
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassic tales of courage and compassion The fabled monarch Vikramaditya is considered a model of kingly virtues, and his reign a golden age. These famous stories narrated by the thirty-two statuettes of nymphs supporting the magic throne of Vikramaditya extol his courage, compassion and extraordinary magnanimity. They are set in a framework recounting the myths of his birth, accession, adventures and death in battle, after which the throne remained concealed till its discovery in a later age. A fascinating mix of marvellous happenings, proverbial wisdom and sage precepts, these popular tales are designed to entertain as well as instruct. Many have passed into folk literature. The original author of the Simhasana Dvatrimsika is unknown. The present text is dated to the thirteenth century AD. It exists in four main recensions, from which extracts have been compiled together for the first time, in this lively and faithful translation of this celebrated classic by a renowned Sanskritist
The Sterling Book of Essence of Indian Thought
Author: Baldeo Sahai
Publisher: Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
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Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 8120792734
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend and great grandmother of tradition. Mark Twain Essence of Indian Thought is about the contribution of India to the thoughts, cultures and traditions of the world. The debt owed by the west to other civilisations and to India in particular, goes back to the earliest epoch of the ‘Western’ scientific tradition, the age of the classical Greeks and continued up until the dawn of the modern era, the renaissance when Europe was awakening from its Dark Ages. This book is an humble attempt to put together some of the aspects of India’s contribution to the thoughts of the world. Upanishads and Yoga both speak of universal values and constitute the heritage of all peoples. Other subjects like Ayurveda, Kamasutra and various forms of Indian arts-painting, music and dance have been analysed and discussed elaborately. The book draws attention to the Indian art of storytelling, the origin of mathematics, including the zero and decimal system.
The Fall of the Indigo Jackal
Author: McComas Taylor
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0791479765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery child growing up in India knows the story of the jackal who fell into the vat of blue dye, and discovering the power of his majestic new appearance, declared himself king of the forest. In spite of his pretenses, the jackal, eventually betrayed by his own instincts, was set upon by the other animals. This and many similar narratives are found in the Pañcatantra, the collection of Sanskrit tales for children compiled by a Jaina monk named Pūrṇabhadra in 1199 CE. In this book, McComas Taylor looks at the discourses that give shape and structure to the fall of the indigo jackal and the other tales within the Pañcatantra. The work's fictional metasociety of animals, kings, and laundrymen are divided according to their jāti, or "kind." This discourse of caste holds that individuals' essential natures, statuses, and social circles are all determined by their birth. Taylor applies contemporary critical theory developed by Foucault, Bourdieu, Barthes, and others to show how these ideas are related to other Sanskritic master-texts, and describes the "regime of truth" that provides validation for the discourse of division.
Encyclopedia of the Literature of Empire
Author: Mary Ellen Snodgrass
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1438119062
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the world's greatest literature about empires and imperialism, including more than 200 entries on writers, classic works, themes, and concepts.
The Trial
Author: Rabindranath Tagore
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Published: 2002-01-01
Total Pages: 90
ISBN-13: 9788171679317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Trial (1920) is a prose translation of the verse play Lakshmir Pariksha (The Test of Lakshmi), written in 1897-98.Autumn Festival is the English translation of the Bengali play Sharadotsav (1908), a prose-play interspersed with songs. The nature element is so well depicted that wind and sunlight are almost actors in this play.
The Collected Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales of Giuseppe Pitrè
Author: Giuseppe Pitrè
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 0415980313
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Mouse Merchant
Author: Arshia Sattar
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-05-22
Total Pages: 173
ISBN-13: 8184757158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven in ancient India, money is always a good thing and everyone wants it. The stories in The Mouse Merchant—selected from the Sanskrit universe, from the period of the late Rig Veda to the twelfth century—tell us how money was dealt with in everyday life in ancient and medieval Indian society. At the heart of these tales is the merchant. Sometimes gullible, sometimes greedy; ingenious at some moments, dim-witted at others; and hopelessly in love with courtesans but also loyal to their wives, our merchant heroes show how innovation in business is sometimes more important than capital. The Mouse Merchant puts these stories into the context of Indian business history, giving not only rare insights into the romance of the ancient seafaring life but also great wisdom about money.
Suleiman Charitra
Author: Kalyana Malla
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-02-06
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9351189465
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Hindu poet, Kalyana Malla, renders in classical Sanskrit a biblical story for his Muslim patron, a Lodhi prince of the sixteenth century, in this unusual intermingling of cultural traditions. The sensual unfolding of David and Bathsheba’s love story-the bathing scene, David’s infatuation, his pursuit of Bathsheba, and their eventual union-is strikingly portrayed in the language of the gods through its shringara rasa, or the erotic mode, by a writer better known for the sex manual Ananga Ranga. This marvellous, first-ever English translation of Suleiman Charitra-a delightful Sanskrit rendering of Hebraic and Arabic tales-elegantly brings together the east and the west.
The Hitopadesa
Author: Narayana
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2006-08-31
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0141907983
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComposed between 800 and 950 AD, Narayana's Hitopadesa is one of the best-known of all works in Sanskrit literature. A fascinating collection of fables, maxims and sayings in verse, it combines a wide variety of writings from earlier authors in one volume - a 'garden of pleasing stories' created to provide guidance, wisdom and political advice to the reader. With elegance and great humour, Narayana weaves a framework for the classic tales, here narrated by animals who quote from and reflect on stories from the Pancatantra and other traditional sources. At once an anthology of folk wisdom and an original and satirical work in its own right, the Hitopadesa has been deeply admired and widely read for more than a thousand years for its humorous and profound reflections on human lives, loves, follies and philosophies.
