Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings

This volume is a systematic and comprehensive introduction to one of the most read texts in South Asia, the Bhagavad-gita.

The Mahabharata has been explored extensively as a work of mythology, epic poetry, and religious literature, but the text's philosophical dimensions have largely been under-appreciated by Western scholars.

The Mahabharata has been explored extensively as a work of mythology, epic poetry, and religious literature, but the text's philosophical dimensions have largely been under-appreciated by Western scholars.

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in the Markandeya Purana, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Markandeya Purana privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devi), the Sun (Surya), Manu and Markandeya himself are paragons.

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durga, and those glorifying the Sun, Surya, found in the Markandeya Purana, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Markandeya Purana privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devi), the Sun (Surya), Manu and Markandeya himself are paragons.

The Mahabharata is one of the world's most significant historical epics.

In the late 18th century Bhagavad-gita became the first Sanskrit work to be rendered in a European tongue, and since that time it has generated countless translations and secondary analyses.

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism.

The Bhagavata Purana is one of the most important, central and popular scriptures of Hinduism.

Angelika Malinar analyses the doctrines of the Bhagavadgita and its historical and cultural contexts.

The Mahavidyas are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses.

The Mahavidyas are the representative Tantric feminine pantheon consisting of ten goddesses.

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Visnu.

Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaisnava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experience is bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Visnu.

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga.

This book provides a rigorously researched, critically comparative introduction to yoga.

Hinduism and Christianity are different in structure and approach - but have a great deal in common in matters relating to ethics.

Hinduism and Christianity are different in structure and approach - but have a great deal in common in matters relating to ethics.

This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and translator of Hindu scriptures.

'Hinduism' is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people.

This book, first published in 1968, comprises five articles on the immortality of the soul.

This book, first published in 1933, was the first text on the general Hindu attitude to art.

This book, first published in 1968, is a collection of twenty-five lectures by Swami Prabhavananda, the outstanding scholar and translator of Hindu scriptures.

'Hinduism' is a term often used to summarize the aspirations of the majority of the Indian people.

This book, first published in 1968, comprises five articles on the immortality of the soul.

This book, first published in 1933, was the first text on the general Hindu attitude to art.

This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.

This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes.

Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background.

This book, first published in 1957, was the first in English to provide a full and clear introduction to one of the most significant of Indian gods, and stresses his supreme role in Indian religion and art.

Indian art, increasingly popular in the west, cannot be fully appreciated without some knowledge of the religious and philosophical background.

This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes.

This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes.

This work, first published in 1968, presents the fabulous world of Hinduism in its entirety in two volumes.

An elegant, highly accessible new English translation of the classic Hindu text, one of the most important sacred scriptures in world religion.

The figure of Sakuntala appears in many forms throughout South Asian literature, most famously in the Mahabharata and in Kalidisa's fourth-century Sanskrit play, Sakuntala and the Ring of Recollection.

Manual de advaita vedantaEl Tattvabodha ( El conocimiento de la Realidad ) es uno de los textos introductorios mas claros y accesibles del advaita vedanta, la gran escuela adualista del hinduismo.