GOLD DUST OF BEGUM SULTANS Zubaida Sultan
ISBN : 978-81-291-4024-1
Edited By : ZAKIA ZAHEER & SYEDA SAIYIDAIN HAMEED , Distributor: Rupa Publications India (P) Ltd., New Delhi - 2.
(2016, xiv+218ppÊ)
Rs.500.00
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Shree Ramayan: Mahanveshnam
ISBN : 978-81-267-1679-1
Edited By :M. Virappa Moili, Dr. Pradhan Gurudatt
(2008, xv+418pp)
Rs.350.00
धर्म वही शाश्वत होता है जो समय की समस्याओं का निदान करने में सक्षम हो। पुराण कथाओं में समय की सारी समस्याओं का समाधान निहित होता है इसलिए पुराण “धर्म-ग्रन्थ” कहे गए हैं। वे समय की सीमाओं को लाँघकर, सैकड़ों पीढ़ियों तक दोहराए जाते हैं।…Read More
पुराण-पुरुष नही है जिसका जीवन-वृत्त पाठक या श्रोता के मन में साहस और आत्मविश्वास की ज्योति जला दे। पौराणिक आख्यानों में निहित शाश्वत समाधान प्रस्तुत करके समाज को नव-जागरण और नव-निर्वाण की प्रेरणा देना लेखक का दायित्व है। वही तत्त्व लेखन की श्रेष्ठता और सफलता की कसौटी है।
कन्नड़ के प्रसिद्ध लेखक श्री वीरप्पा मोयिली ने इस ग्रन्थ में वाल्मीकि के आधार से, सुमित्रानंद्न श्री लक्ष्मण के अति ओजस्वी व्यक्तित्व को “महान्वेषण” के शब्दावरण में सजाने का प्रयत्न किया है। मोयिली के सौमित्र दीन-दलित मानवता के उत्थान के लिए जो प्रेरणा देते है वे मंत्र आज भी उतने की प्रासंगिक और कार्यकारी प्रतीत होते हैं जितने वे हजारों साल पहले रहे होंगे। इस प्रकार अतीत के दीपक से वर्तमान को प्रकाशित करने का प्रयत्न है श्री रामायण महान्वेषणम्।
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Ladakh ki Kala evam Sanskriti
ISBN : 81-86616-78-7
Edited By :Premsingh Jina
(2000, 168pp., col. illus., index)
Rs.350.00
प्रस्तुत पुस्तक में लद्दाख की बौद्ध संस्कृति के विविध आयाम यथा समाज, बौद्ध संस्कृति का इतिहास, बौद्ध कला का उद्भव एवं विकास, थंका चित्रकला का उद्भव एवं विकास, नव-वर्ष त्यौहार लोसर, आभूषण एवं वेशभूषा, वाद्य यंत्र आदि को संक्षिप्त रूप में प्रस्तुत करने का प्रयास किया गया है। यह कृति हिन्दी भाषी समुदाय के लिए लद्दाख की बौद्ध संस्कृति को समझने के लिए एक सशक्त मार्गदर्शक बन सकती है।
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TEAK AND ARECANUT:COLONIAL STATE, FOREST AND PEOPLE IN THE WESTERN GHATS (SOUTH INDIA) 1800-1947
ISBN : 0971-3085
Edited By :Marlene Buchy
(996 xxiv+225pp. chro., gloss, bibl, index)
Rs.330.00
This uniquely detailed study of the most wooded districts in India-North Canara (Uttara Kannada) in the Western Ghāṭs, Karnataka, reveals that economic stake as well as a conservation agenda were at the centre of the British forest policy in the area…Read More
The study also argues that one of the most destructive consequence of colonial intervention was the disruption of social organization, which was originally closely linked to the environment. In understanding these socio-economic changes, one may find some answers to the challenge of contemporary attempts to reconcile the needs of the local communities with the conservation of a vulnerable environment.
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BENGALI PATRIOTIC SONGS AND BRAHMO SAMAJ
ISBN : 81-207-1745-7
Edited By :Sreelekha Basu
(1996, xiv+90pp. appends., bibl.)
Rs.250.00
Collective singing has been a cohesive force in all societies at the moments of crisis or elation…Read More
Thus patriotic songs have played a pivotal role in India’s struggle for freedom. These songs are still sung at various functions in educational and other institutes, keeping alive the memory of the struggle for freedom. This monograph, comprises patriotic songs of Bengal collected by the author, who has done extensive fieldwork to identify the songs after search of archival records which lay untouched in several Brahmo Samaj Mandirs.
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COMMUNICATION WITH GOD : THE DAILY PUJA CEREMONY IN THE JAGANNATHA TEMPLE
ISBN : 81-7305-262-X
Edited By :Gaya Charan Tripathi
(2004, xxii+510pp., col. illus., 8, biblio.)
Rs.1,500.00
The work for the first time presents in a very detailed manner the various rites in forming the daily pūjā ceremony of one of the most famous and important temples of Hindus-Jagannātha Temple at Purī…Read More
The study is based on a large number of au then tic palm -leaf manuscripts discovered and collected by the author in Orissa, substantiated by his personal observation and information acquired from the temple functionaries. It is a well known fact that the study of Hindu temple rituals has not yet been taken up so extensively and seriously as that of the Vedic rituals. This work seeks to fill up this desirable gap and is a significant contribution to the study of the process of formation of the medieval Hinduism and its gradual development.
The rite of the Hindu pūjā is basically a very subtle and sublime spiritual phenomenon in which the worshipper, in the course of meditation, first dissolves his mundane body to create a divine body for himself, identical in nature with that of his Deity. Thereafter visualizing the tejas of the Deity in his heart through concentrated meditation upon His/Her form, he transfers this divine effulgence into the image for the time being in order to achieve a subject-object relationship with the Deity, who is identical with the self, and starts communicating with his God from the same elevated plane.
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SACRED COMPLEX OF GURUVAYUR TEMPLE
ISBN : 978-81-7305-388-7
Edited By :P.R.G. Mathur
(2009, 246pp., + xxvi, col. illus 129, bibl., Figs. & Maps 28, Index)
Rs.3,000.00
Sacred Complex of the Guruvayur Temple is the first comprehensive study of the Tāntric aspects of the famous Guruvayur Śrī Kṛṣṇa Temple, which has become the second richest and busy pilgrim centre in India, in recent years…Read More
The uniqueness of the Guruvayur Sacred Complex is its universal appeal. The secrets of the Sacred Complex of Guruvayur are described in simple language for the lay devotees by the author. He has combined the humility of a votary with objectivity of a scientific researcher. This pioneering and outstanding work is expected to receive attention from social scientists, planners and administrators and inspire researchers to study other sacred temple complexes as mirrors of Indian religious tradition.
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THE BHAKTIRASAMRTASINDHU OF RUPA GOSVAMIN
ISBN : 81-208-1861-x
Edited By :David L. Haberman
(2003, lxxiv+670pp., gloss., bibl.)
Rs.1,600.00
Bhakti or devotional love is the way of directly encountering the rasa in human )experience. The aesthetic experience of rasa which is available to human beings was somehow not fully manifested and established from the ‘intellectual’ point of view…Read More
A glimpse of the rasa accomplished is available in the encounter of Uddhava and gopīs. Humans by nature are rational and logical beings. They prefer logical conclusions which have universal applicability. To logically establish the path of rasa was the endeavour of the seekers and thinkers of Vṛndāvana, which emerged as the seventeenth century intellectual, cultural and spiritual centre of the Vraja region. Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmin, a direct disciple of Sri Caitanya, was a shining member of the team of six Gosvāmins. For him the emotionally experienced bhaktiprema-rasa is equally knowable and communicable. The human consciousness could reach the ocean of rasa through Sri Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu. If there is an experience, it can be expressed and for an expression to be meaningful it has to be guided by a “grammar” or a Śāstra. The famous trilogy of Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu, Ujjvalanīlamaṇi and Niitakacandrikia of Śrī Rūpa Gosvāmin provided for the first time a total Śāstra of bhaktirasa.
It is felt that the Bhaktirasāmṛtasindhu be made available to the English-knowing world as well. David Haberman has fulfilled this need by undertaking the stupendous task of translating this definitive text on bhakti rasa into English. The present edition includes the original Sanskrit in Devanagar1, Haberman’s translation and exegetical notes explaining all the intricate points of the text. An exhaustive table of contents and elaborate introduction, glossary and bibliography have greatly enhanced the value of the edition.
Preface
Foreword
Acknowledge
Content List
Introduction
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SHRI SHRI RUPAGOSWAMIPRABHUPADAPRANITA: SHRI SHRI BHAKTIRASAMRTASINDHU
ISBN : 81-208-1546-7
Edited By :Premlata Sharma
(1998(Vol.I), lxviii+564pp., intro)
Rs.1,400.00
श्री श्री भक्तिरसामृतसिन्धु केवल गौड़ीय परम्परा का प्रमुख ग्रन्थ ही नहीं है अपितु पूरे देश में भक्तिरस का जो भी प्रतिपादन हुआ है उसकी पराकाष्ठा इसमें निबद्ध है।…Read More
श्री श्री भक्तिरसामृतसिन्धु में भक्ति का साङ्गोपाङ्ग निरूपण परम्परा प्राप्त नौ रसों में से शान्त और श्रृङ्गार से दास्य, सख्य और वात्सल्य को जोड़कर पाँच मुख्य भक्तिरस और शेष सात – हास्य, करुण, वीर, भयानक, बीभत्स, रौद्र एवं अद्भुत – को गौण भक्तिरस बनाकर द्वादश भक्तिरस का प्रतिपादन है।
Preface
Foreword
Content List
| Volume |
ISBN |
Price |
| 1998(Vol.I), lxviii+564pp., intro. |
81-208-1546-7 |
Rs. 850 |
| 2003 (Vol II) lxxv+536pp. |
81-208-1985-3 |
Rs. 1400 |
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Evening Blossoms: The Temple Tradition of Sañjhī in VṚndavana
ISBN : 91-207-1645-0
Edited By :Asimakrishna Dasa
(1996, 63pp., col. and b&w ills., notes, bibl.)
Rs.750.00
The temple tradition of Sāñjhī in Vrndavana describes the transformation of a folk tradition. Sāñjhī was originally a ritual worship undertaken by unmarried girls throughout northern India to obtain a suitable husband. It became a temple tradition in the seventeenth century when the devotional bhakti movement…Read More
linked it to the games played by Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa as children in Vraja, the cowherd camp where God was pleased to reside as Śrī Kṛṣṇa in the previous era. The devotional verses of the next two centuries describe these games and evoke Sāñjhī as a ritual design made with forest flowers in the autumn, after the rains. Thus, Rādhā, Kṛṣṇa’s āhlādinī śakti or joygoing potency, who is also prakṛti (nature), is engaged in her own beautification.
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