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Indra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 11

Indra

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-10-28
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  • Publisher: Penguin UK

Indra is the king of the gods, and yet, he is not worshipped with the Trimurti. Why is this? He is the god of luxury, who has a cow, a tree and a jewel which will fulfil all wishes, and he watches apsaras dance and gandharvas sing. But for all his pleasure and wealth–Indra does not have peace of mind. He is under constant attack from asuras, and in one story, he asks his most beautiful apsara to disturb the tapasya of the great Vishwamitra. Indra achieves success, becomes lazy, loses his kingdom, works hard to regain it, becomes lazy again–and the circle of life goes on. What is the meaning of this? Delve into the story of the god of the body, in this short, sweet read from Devlok.

Indra's Pearls
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Indra's Pearls

Felix Klein, one of the great nineteenth-century geometers, rediscovered in mathematics an idea from Eastern philosophy: the heaven of Indra contained a net of pearls, each of which was reflected in its neighbour, so that the whole Universe was mirrored in each pearl. Klein studied infinitely repeated reflections and was led to forms with multiple co-existing symmetries. For a century these ideas barely existed outside the imagination of mathematicians. However in the 1980s the authors embarked on the first computer exploration of Klein's vision, and in doing so found many further extraordinary images. Join the authors on the path from basic mathematical ideas to the simple algorithms that create the delicate fractal filigrees, most of which have never appeared in print before. Beginners can follow the step-by-step instructions for writing programs that generate the images. Others can see how the images relate to ideas at the forefront of research.

The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

The Indra Hymns of the Ṛgveda

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The Festival of Indra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 349

The Festival of Indra

The Festival of Indra details the textual and performative history of an important South Asian festival and its role in the development of classical Hinduism. Drawing on various genres of Sanskrit textual sources—especially the epic Mahābhārata—the book highlights the innovative ways that this annual public festival has supported the stable royal power responsible for the sponsorship of these texts. More than just a textual project, however, the book devotes significant ethnographic attention to the only contemporary performance of this festival that adheres to the classical Sanskrit record: the Indrajatra of Kathmandu, Nepal. Here, Indra's tall pole remains the festival's focal point, though its addition of the royal blessing by Kumari, the "living goddess" of Nepal, and the regular presence of the fierce god Bhairav show several significant ways that ritual agents have re-constructed this festival over the past two thousand years.

Rebels: City of Indra
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Rebels: City of Indra

Kendall and Kylie Jenner, stars on the hit reality show Keeping Up with the Kardashians, present their debut novel—a thrilling dystopian story about two super-powered girls who embark on a journey together. In a world of the far future, the great City of Indra has two faces: a beautiful paradise floating high in the sky, and a nightmare world of poverty carved beneath the surface of the Earth. Lex grew up in an orphanage deep in the dark. But even as a child, she instinctively rebelled against her fate—the time when she would be judged either useful to Society or forced to live among the mutations in Rock Bottom, the lowest level. When she is chosen to become an elite cadet of the Popula...

Apsaras of Indra’s court full collection
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 31

Apsaras of Indra’s court full collection

  • Categories: Art

apsara, in Indian religion and mythology, one of the celestial singers and dancers who, together with the gandharvas, or celestial musicians, inhabit the heaven of the god Indra, the lord of the heavens. Originally water nymphs, the apsaras provide sensual pleasure for both gods and men.

The Devourers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Devourers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Del Rey

"A dreamlike novel about a young historian and a persuasive and beguiling stranger coming together in modern-day Kolkata, India to transcribe an ancient journal. A collection of paper, parchment, and skins, the journal tells of bloodshed, kidnapping, magic and shapeshifting, set against the harsh landscapes of the 17th-Century Mughal Empire. It reveals the story of hunters and prey, lovers and the beloved, and, in the end, the choice to be transformed, or be quarry"--

Indra’s court part 1 Birth of Urvashi (Relco Studio)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 13

Indra’s court part 1 Birth of Urvashi (Relco Studio)

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-06-05
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  • Publisher: relcostudio

Urvashi was created by Nara-narayana struck their thigh and created a woman so beautiful, that the apsaras left in shame. This apsara created was named Urvashi meaning created from ur or thigh.

Indra and Other Vedic Deities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Indra and Other Vedic Deities

The book studies the evolution of euhemeristic deities of the Vedic period, mainly Indra, the Rbhus, the Asvins and tha Maruts. It explores the rational behind the euhemerism and the fistory of events leading to their myhtologization

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 343

Indra's Net and the Midas Touch

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-08-19
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

An exploration of the impact of unintended consequences in an interdependent world and of the opportunities for creativity and community. We live today in a global web of interdependence, connected technologically, economically, politically, and socially. As a result of these expanding and deepening interdependencies, it has become impossible fully to control—or foretell—the effects of our actions. The world is rife with unintended consequences. The first law of human ecology—which declares that we can never do merely one thing—is a truth we ignore at our peril. In Indra's Net and the Midas Touch, Leslie Paul Thiele explores the impact of interdependence and unintended consequences o...