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In Praise of the Goddess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 409

In Praise of the Goddess

About 16 centuries ago, an unknown Indian author or authors gathered together the diverse threads of already ancient traditions and wove them into a verbal tapestry that today is still the central text for worshippers of the Hindu Devi, the Divine Mother. This spiritual classic, the Devimahatmya, addresses the perennial questions of the nature of the universe, humankind, and divinity. How are they related, how do we live in a world torn between good and evil, and how do we find lasting satisfaction and inner peace? These questions and their answers form the substance of the Devimahatmya. Its narrative of a dispossessed king, a merchant betrayed by the family he loves, and a seer whose teachi...

The Veiling Brilliance
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

The Veiling Brilliance

Immediately, the seer Medhas challenges King Suratha and the merchant Samachi, saying that nothing in this world is as it seems to be and that what they don't know is the cause of their grief. Gifted with unfailing wisdom, the holy man is at once provocative, unpredictable, and loving as he takes his two new disciples on the journey of a lifetime-a journey to the heart of reality to self-discovery. This story of betrayal and loss, inner conflict, and the way to peace probes ever deeper into to the mystery of human existence and leads to the question, Who am I? Amid the deconstruction od everyday personality and the perplexing world, an astonishing new sense of self begins to shine through. S...

Devimahatmayam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Devimahatmayam

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-15
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This translation combines Western scholarship with an insider's perspective, based on the author's 37 years of spiritual practice in the Hindu tradition.

The Trip
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The Trip

Two friend Akash and Bijay went to Nagpur to meet their old friend Anand. They met after a long time and recalled their old college days. They had fun together and enjoy it a lot but it became a twist when Anand was leaving Nagpur forever and the railway platform was the witness of their love separation between Anand and his girlfriend Neha. Though the trip was memorable, it still has some sweet and bitter memories which no one wants to recall.

Svetasvataropanisad
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 509

Svetasvataropanisad

The Svetasvataropanisad is considered to be the most beautiful of all the Upanisads, the philosophical texts of the Hindu religion. In this new translation, Devadatta Kali takes a fresh look, and works from a new premise that the Svetasvatara represents a Saivite (one of the Hindu sects) point of view. This he claims, allows its intended meaning to shine forth. The translation and commentary brings to life the seer Svetasvatara, who from time to time delights in provocation and word play, allowing the reader to share the joy of his liberated vision that all this world is an expression of the Divine. This translation aims to capture the seer's ecstatic response to the wonders of creation whil...

Encountering the Goddess
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Encountering the Goddess

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Coburn provides a fresh and careful translation from the Sanskrit of this fifteen-hundred-year-old text. Drawing on field work and literary evidence, he illuminates the process by which the Devī-Māhātmya has attracted a vast number of commentaries and has become the best known Goddess-text in modern India, deeply embedded in the ritual of Goddess worship (especially in Tantra). Coburn answers the following questions among others: Is this document "scripture?" How is it that this text mediates the presence of the Goddess? What can we make of contemporary emphasis on oral recitation of the text rather than study of its written form? One comes away from Coburn's work with a sense of the hist...

Postcolonial Plays
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 484

Postcolonial Plays

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This collection of contemporary postcolonial plays demonstrates the extraordinary vitality of a body of work that is currently influencing the shape of contemporary world theatre. This anthology encompasses both internationally admired 'classics' and previously unpublished texts, all dealing with imperialism and its aftermath. It includes work from Canada, the Carribean, South and West Africa, Southeast Asia, India, New Zealand and Australia. A general introduction outlines major themes in postcolonial plays. Introductions to individual plays include information on authors as well as overviews of cultural contexts, major ideas and performance history. Dramaturgical techniques in the plays draw on Western theatre as well as local performance traditions and include agit-prop dialogue, musical routines, storytelling, ritual incantation, epic narration, dance, multimedia presentation and puppetry. The plays dramatize diverse issues, such as: *globalization * political corruption * race and class relations *slavery *gender and sexuality *media representation *nationalism

New Eye on Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

New Eye on Research

The book is for undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD research scholars who are pursuing their courses. They can find various modern topics related with English language and Literature; it helps them to enhance their knowledge and capabilities to think upon a research topic properly and accurately. It covers the topic like Dalitism, Feminism, gynocentricism, Black Art Movement and so on along with various Diasporic topics.

Hayavadana
  • Language: en

Hayavadana

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Kali
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Kali

"Never before in print have I seen Her brought to life with such passion and truth. Harding brings Mother Kali to everyone who sees her path".