Books

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Om Books International
• By : Hermann Hesse
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
  
• Pages : ‎ 144 pages
  
• Weight : 220 g
  
• Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9789385609091
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9385609091
  

DESCRIPTION: 

"You have done so by your own seeking in your own way,through thought, through meditation, through knowledge, through enlightenment. You have learned nothing through teachings, and so I think, O Illustrious One, that nobody finds salvation through teachings. To nobody, O Illustrious One, can you communicate in words and teachings, what happened to you in the hour of your enlightenment. The teachings of the enlightened Buddha embrace much, they teach much—how to live righteously, how to avoid evil. But there is one thing that this clear, worthy instruction does not contain; it does not contain the secret of what the Illustrious One himself experienced—he alone among hundreds of thousands.".

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Geeta Press Gorakhpur; 1st edition (1 January 2015)
• Product Code: 0002
• By : Jayadayal Goyandka
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2015
• Pages : 799
• Weight : 1.42 Kg
• Size : 10.62 x 8.26 x 1.18 inches
• ASIN : B01MDVDWOE

DESCRIPTION:

A magnificent commentary on Gita, the song celestial, by Brahmalina Sri Jaydayal Goyandka, the founder of Gita Press, with a view to propagate the divine preaching of Lord Krishna to each and every person. Gita has emanated from the lotus-like lips of the Lord himself. As a book of scripture, the Bhagavadgita has assumed a position of universal interest. The commentary consists of 2515 questions and answers thereof. The descriptive explanation of Slokas of Gita, full of its deepest mystery, has been given in a simple language. By studying it carefully even ordinary persons are able to understand easily the deepest mystery of the Gita. By holding its essence into their heart they can make their lives meaningful.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• By: Noboru Karashima
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2014
• Pages : 418 pages
• Weight : ‎ 658 g
• Size : 23.88 x 18.29 x 2.79 cm
• ISBN-10 : 0198099770
• ISBN-13 : 978-0198099772

DESCRIPTION:

The course of south Indian history from pre-historic times to the contemporary era is a complex narrative with many interpretations. Reflecting recent advances in the study of the region, this volume provides an assessment of the events and socio-cultural development of south India through a comprehensive analysis of its historical trajectory.

Investigating the region’s states and configurations, this book cover a wide range of topics that include the ancient kingdoms, advancement of agriculture, new religious movements based on bhakti, and consolidation of centralized states in the medieval period. It further explores the growth of industries in relation to the development of East-West maritime trade in the Indian Ocean as well as the course of commercial relations with various European countries. The book then goes on the discuss the advent of early-modern state rule, impact of the raiyatwari system introduced by the British, debates about whether the region’s economy developed or deteriorated during the eighteenth century, decline of matrilliny in kerala, emergence of the Dravidian movement, and the intertwining of politics with contemporary popular culture.

Well illustrated with maps and images, and incorporating new archaeological evidence and historiography, this volume presents fresh perspective on a gamut of issues relating to communities, languages, and cultures of a macro-region that continues to fascinate scholars and readers alike.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : L Prakashan; 3rd edition (1 January 2016)
• By : Amarkant
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 535
• Weight : 670 gm
• Size : 7.87 x 5.51 x 1.57 inches
• ISBN-10 : 8126715189
• ISBN-13 ‏: ‎978-8126715183

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Subharati Prakashan
• By : Shri Sitaram Shastri and Prof. Bala Shastri Shri Guruprasad Shastri
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Sanskrit
• Edition : 2012
• Pages : 1761
• ISBN-10 ‏: ‎938148418X
• ISBN-13 ‏: ‎978-9381484180

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Subharati Prakashan
• By : Shri Govindacharya
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Sanskrit
• Edition : 2019
• Pages : 6924
• Weight : 7 Kg
• Size : 8.27 x 5.91 x 3.94 Inches
• ASIN : B07TXT9YW5

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Subharati Prakashan
• By : Arun Kumar Sharma
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2012
• Pages : 374
• Weight : 420 gm
• Size : 8.5 X 5.5 Inch
• ISBN-10 : 9381484864
• ISBN-13 : 978-9381484869

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Sri Satguru Publications
• By: Brahmachari Prasad
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 1982
• Pages :304  pages
• Weight : 500 g
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
• ISBN-10 : 8170300827
• ISBN-13 : 978-8170300823

DESCRIPTION:

This book on Jaino-Buddhist religion places stress on the common factors on the religious life of the Jaina and Buddhists. On comparing the literature of both, the writer has come to the conclusion that coming in close association each sect has either borrowed from the other or both have derived material from a common source. He has shown the similarities between old Jainism and old Buddhism and proved that both were one and the same at their base; that the old Buddhism was nothing but old Jainism and that Gautama Buddha must have preached the same philosophy that was preached by old Buddhism. This is a reprint of the 1932 classic.

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• Publisher : D.K. Print World Ltd
• By: Sures Chandra Banerji
• Cover: Hardcover
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2000
  
• Pages : 279 pages
  
• Weight : 499 g
  
• Size : 20 x 14 x 4 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8124600988
• ISBN-13 : 978-8124600986

DESCRIPTION:

Dharmasastra is not just a corpus of scriptural texts, It is rather a genre, in its own right, of writings comprising prescriptive codes of righteous conduct in different spheres: whether familial, societal, ritualistic, legal, or even political. For the first time, this book offers a quintessentials view of the dharmasastra (smrti) literature. Which today, along with its digests and commentaries, looks like a vast reservoir of literary workds that have been accumulating over the centuries since their legendary beginnings with Manu.

Designed primarily for reference, this Companion is styled and structured to bring forth the dharmasastra-essentials in the quickest time. Listed here, alphabetically, are the major authors with their biographic sketches. And, these besides, the titles, together with descriptive details of their thematic content, dates/probable dates of their composition, published editions and commentaries their upon. Also included here are as many as 12 appendices which, in their totality, embody dharmasastrra-based information on geographi, flora and fauna mixed castes/tribes, neop-smriti schools, and the kind of relation smrti literature has with the Mahabharata, Puranas, and tantra, among other aspects.

Professor Banerji’s book not only tries to show how dharmasastra words are representative of the ancient/medieval political, social and cultural milieus, but is also a painstaking attempt to gauge their influence in conditioning the Indian way of life and psyche. Supported by an extensive glossarial index of smrti literature, it is indisputably a valued companion to the dharmasastraspecialists, Indologists and the scholars of ancient/medieval Indian sociology.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Sri Aurobindo Ashram Publication Department
  
• By: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother
  
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2016
• Pages: 188
  
• Weight: 200 g
  
• ISBN-10 : 9352101162
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9352101160
  

DESCRIPTION:

Among the essays included here is the series "A System of National Education", first published in the journal Karmayogin in 1910, in which Sri Aurobindo introduces certain general principles of a sound system of teaching. Also included are two articles written in 1949 on the importance of physical education and the perfection of the body as an essential component for the eventual divinisation of material life. Selections from the Mother's writings include essays on physical, vital, mental, and psychic and spiritual education.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher ‎ Penguin Viking
• By: Premchand 
• Cover :Hardcover
• Language : English
• Edition : 2018
• Pages: 160
• Weight: 240 g
• Size :  20 x 14 x 4 cm
• ISBN-10 : 9780670091461
• ISBN-13 : 978-0670091461
  

DESCRIPTION:

Munshi Premchand is one of the most important writers of the Hindi-Urdu canon in India. His prolific writing contributed largely to shape the genre of short stories as we know it in India. His range and diversity were limitless as he tackled themes of romance and satire, gender politics and social inequality, with unmatched skill and compassion.
Premchand's wrote prolifically about life in the city in the India of his time . In fact, his fictional corpus, if read uncritically, would lend itself to an easy binary between country life and city life. This collection attempts to break away from the misconceptions to bring to light the nuance in his understanding of city life.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Yoga Publications
  
• By: Swami Satyananda Saraswati
• Binding : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2009
• Pages: 120
• Weight: 200 g
• ISBN-10 :  8185787263
• ISBN-13 : 978-8185787268
  

DESCRIPTION:

YOGA AND CARDIOVASCULAR MANAGEMENT is a compilation of the discussions between Swamiji and a group of French medical experts, physicians and yoga teachers who shared their views on yoga and the medical management of cardiovscular disease. The discussions shed light on the yogic approach to managing the whole range of heart and vascular diseases in relation to the medical view point. Both yoga and Medicine are sciences in their own right and while they complement each other in managing disease, yoga is shown to embrace the whole individual nature in getting to the root and cause of the disease.

In addition to cardiovascular diseases, respiratory diseases and cancer are also included, giving the yogic explanation and management techniques with scientific back up. The research data was correlated by an Australian Doctor, and the scientific disposition and language make the Book ideal for both medical scientists and lay people alike.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : ‎ Parimal Publication Pvt. Ltd
  
• By : (Prof. Gyan Prakash Shastri)
  
• Cover : hardcover
  
• Language : Sanskrit
  
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 726
  
• ISBN-10 : 8171105556
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8171105557
  

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
• By : Dr. Ayodhya Prasad
  
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 140
  
• Weight : 453 g
  
• Size : 8.27 x 5.91 x 1.57 inches
  
• ISBN-10 : 9381484228
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9381484227
  

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : ‎ D.K. Printworld (P) Ltd
  
• By : Premlata Sharma
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2006
• Pages : 594
  
• Weight : 104 kg
  
• ISBN-10 : 9788124603635
  
• ISBN-13 :  978-8124603635
  

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Parimal Publications
  
• By : Dr. Radha Gupta
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : English
• Edition : 2016
• Pages : 502
  
• Weight : 730 gm
  
• ISBN-10 : 8171105521
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-8171105526
  

DESCRIPTION:

This book is the second book in the Secrets series written by the author. The first book "Secrets of Bhagawat, Mahabharat and Ramayan" focused mostly on the stories in the Bhagwat and barely touched a few stories from Ramayana. The current book is an attempt to look at the Ramayana holistically and explain all the spiritural secrets hidden in its many many stories. Written in easy to understand format - starts with a short version of each of the stories in Ramayana, followed by a spiritual explanation of the story both in Hindi n English. The Ramayana epic is like a beautiful necklace. It has various precious stones depicting the vividness of human emotions, worldly relations, responsibilities, insights in politics, architecture, astronomy, religion et al. However the thread that brings all these precious stones together as a necklace is a thread of Spirituality. Without understanding the spiritual meaning for which this epic was written, everything becomes irrelavent. This work is an attempt to bring that spirituality to the masses.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
• By : (Dr. Jagdish Chandra Mishra)
  
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2010
  
• Pages : 440
  
• Weight : 100 g
  
• Size : 10 x 5 x 10 cm
  
• ASIN:  B00NGRK5LI
  

SPECIFICATION: 

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
• By : Dr. (S.N. Khandelwal)
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2003
• Pages : 374
• ASIN: B01FB07NM6

 

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Chaukhamba Surbharati Prakashan
• By : Dr. Shatrughan Tripathi
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : Hindi
• Edition : 2017
• Pages : 296
• Weight : 498 gm
• Size :  8.27 x 4.72 x 1.18 inches
• ISBN-10 : 9383721332
• ISBN-13 : 978-9383721337

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Tranquebar
• By : Manjul Bajaj
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2019
  
• Pages : ‎ 300 pages
  
• Weight : 260 g
  
• Size : 14 x 2.5 x 21 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9388689771
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9388689779
  

DESCRIPTION: 

In the village of Takht Hazara, the musically gifted Deedho Ranjha struggles against family and society. He rejects the pursuit of wealth and power as the measure of a man’s worth. In distant Jhang, the spirited Heer Syal is an accomplished warrior who fearlessly challenges the norms of her community. Heer and Ranjha are destined to meet and fall in love—the former chastised for her ‘manly’ pursuits and the latter ridiculed for his lack thereof.Told from multiple perspectives, set against the lush riverbanks and rugged countryside of West Punjab, this is a wise, passionate and lyrical retelling of one of the subcontinent’s most beloved epics. A rich cast of characters—Kaido Langra, Jhang’s seemingly pious conscience-keeper; Malki, the mother of a daughter she cannot understand; Seida Khera, Heer’s hapless fiancé; a silent, watchful crow; a flock of excitable pigeons who bear witness and a philosophical goat—all play their part in bringing this stirring story to life

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Tranquebar
• By : Tarana Husain Khan
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2021
  
• Pages : ‎ 280 pages
  
• Weight : 220 g
  
• Size : 14 x 1.78 x 21.6 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9389152607
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9389152609
  

DESCRIPTION: 

In 1897 in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan's Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab’s glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce her, and her family disowns her. Reluctantly, Feroza marries the Nawab, and is compelled to negotiate the glamour and sordidness of the harem.In the bazaar chowk, Kallan Mirza, a skilled dastango, spins a hauntingly familiar tale of a despotic sorcerer, Tareek Jaan, and his grand illusory city, the Tilism-e-Azam, where women are confined in underground basements. As Kallan descends deeper into an opium addiction, the boundaries of fantasy and reality begin to blur.And in the present day, Ameera listens to Dadi narrating the tale of Feroza Begum, Ameera's great-grandmother. Confined to her house because her parents haven’t paid her school fees, Ameera takes comfort from Dadi's story. As her world disintegrates, she is compelled to ask herself if anything has changed for Sherpur's women.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Aleph Book Company
• By : Arif  Anwar
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2018
  
• Pages : 360 pages
  
• Weight : 410 g
  
• Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9387561348
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9387561342
  

DESCRIPTION: 

Inspired by the 1970 Bhola cyclone, in which half a million people perished overnight, The Storm seamlessly interweaves five love stories that, together, chronicle sixty years of Bangladeshi history. ~ Shahryar, a recent PhD graduate and the father of nine-year-old Anna, must leave the US when his visa expires. In their last remaining weeks together, we learn his story, beginning in a village on the Bay of Bengal, where a poor fisherman and his wife are preparing to face a storm of historic proportions. Their story intersects with those of a Japanese fighter pilot, a British female doctor stationed in Burma during World War II and a privileged couple in Calcutta who leave everything behind to move to East Pakistan following the Partition of India. The structure of this riveting novel mimics the storm itself—building to a series of revelatory and moving climaxes as it explores the many ways in which families love, betray, honor and sacrifice for one another. At once grounded in history and fantastically imaginative, The Storm is a sweeping epic in the tradition of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance, by an immensely talented new voice in international fiction.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Aleph Book Company
• By : Leelawati Mohapatra , Paul St-Pierre , K.K. Mohapatra
  
• Cover : Hardcover
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2019
  
• Pages : 248 pages
  
• Weight : 295 g
  
• Size : 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9388292979
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9388292979
  

DESCRIPTION: 

The greatest Odia stories ever told showcases odia’s greatest storytellers ranging from literary masters such as fakir Mohan Senapati, Gopinath Mohanty, Reba Ray and man's Das to contemporary stalwarts like Pratibha Ray and nrusingha Tripathi, among others. A young woman who was dragged away by a crocodile mysteriously resurfaces after a decade in Manoj das’s ‘Mrs crocodile’; a pet goat let loose in a government Office causes amusement and chaos in Gopinath Mohanty’s ‘the solution’; Godavari's mahapatra’s ‘maguni’s bullock cart’ deals with the anxieties of a bullock cart driver stuck between the trappings of traditions and modernity stories in this anthology traverse an exciting range of themes from fantasy to reality and bone-chilling horror to rib-tickling humour. Timeless, evocative and striking, the greatest Odia stories ever told offers a rich selection of stories that are unrivalled in their range, style and complexity. Selected and translated by leelawati Mohapatra, Paul st-pierre and K. K. Mohapatra, the twenty-four stories in this volume showcase the finest short fiction in Odia literature.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Aleph Book Company
• By : David Davidar
  
• Cover : Paperback
  
• Language : English
  
• Edition : 2016
  
• Pages : 544 pages
  
• Weight : 720 g
  
• Size : 15.7 x 4.1 x 23.2 cm
  
• ISBN-10 : 9382277293
  
• ISBN-13 : 978-9382277293
  

DESCRIPTION: 

The thirty-nine short stories in this book will blow you away. Starting with a ghost story by Rabindranath Tagore, India’s most famous writer and ending with a fable by Kanishk Tharoor, a writer who has come of age in the twenty-first century, these literary masterpieces showcase the extraordinary range and diversity of our storytelling tradition. The first recognizably modern Indian short stories were written in Bengal (by Tagore and others) in the second half of the nineteenth century and writers from other regions were quick to follow suit, often using the form to protest colonial oppression and the various ills afflicting rural and urban India. Over the next century and a half, some of the finest writers the world has seen produced outstanding fiction in every conceivable genre. Many of these stories find a place in this volume, as does work by emerging talent that has never been published in book form before. Here you will find stories of classical realism, ones rooted in folklore and myth, tales of fantasy, humour, horror, crime and romance, stories set in villages, small towns, cities and the moon. They will entertain you and shock you, they will lighten your mood and cast you down, they will move you and they will make you reflect on life’s big and little questions. Most of all, they will make you see the world differently—as the greatest stories always do.