Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings

The Brahma-sutra, attributed to Badaraya (ca.

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

Winner of the Award for Excellence in Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of ReligionThis book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata.

A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit.

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

This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages.

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power is an exploration of the many faces of the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture.

An annotated translation of Nandadasa's poetic rendition of the five chapters of rasa-lila in the Bhagavata, highlighting the text's musical legacy, devotional worship, and Vedantic foundations.

This book seeks to understand the major mythological role models that mark the moral landscape navigated by young Hindu women.

At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature.

King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.

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

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

This book presents an original and comprehensive overview of the transformation of Mauritian Hinduism against the backdrop of globalisation.

The idea of Maya pervades Indian philosophy.

Offers letters of the Sanskrit alphabet as key to understanding Yoga and the DivineThese original meditations on the Sanskrit letters range from personal narratives to metaphysical and theological speculations, linguistic play, and inter-spiritual allusions to other works and traditions, all relevant to living a contemplative life in the contemporary world.

This book seeks to understand the major mythological role models that mark the moral landscape navigated by young Hindu women.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered by many contemporary Hindus to be a foundational religious text.

The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites.

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

Easwarans best-selling translation of the ancient wisdom texts called the Upanishads is reliable, readable, and profound.

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

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

Holy Quran is the most-read book in the world.

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Purana enjoins several rites of worship and acts of homage comprising a series, of physical and spiritual practices in accompaniment to the Tantra, Yantra and Mantra appliances.

Traducción del sánscrito y comentario del maestro IyengarPrefacio de Yehudi MenuhinLa filosofía del yoga fue descrita por primera vez en los Yoga-sūtras, una recopilación de aforismos transmitida hace más de dos mil años por el sabio indio Patañjali.

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The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine.

This book on the Tripurarahasya, a South Indian Sanskrit work which occupies a unique place in the Sakta literature, is a study of the Srividya and Sakta traditions in the context of South Indian intellectual history in the late middle ages.

Purana enjoins several rites of worship and acts of homage comprising a series, of physical and spiritual practices in accompaniment to the Tantra, Yantra and Mantra appliances.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des Pantschatantra, einer der ältesten und einflussreichsten Sammlungen von Fabeln und Erzählungen der indischen Literatur.

The president and acarya of the Gopinath Gaudiya Math offers his insights into in the teachings of Gaudiya Vaishnavism in this enlightening book.

A collection of holy writings that imparts the magic and divinity that is experienced through the real and untiring devotion of a disciple towards his guru.

The founder of Sri Gopinath Gaudiya Math offers wisdom and clarity about the most vital and least understood aspects of the spiritual path: the teacher.

In this book, the author has chosen 90 verses of the Gita out of the total 700, which are purely subjective in nature.

Like the proverbial fish that has heard a lot about the Great Ocean and spends an entire lifetime searching for it, not realising it has always been an inseparable part of the ocean, man spends his lifetime searching all around for God.

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.

Like the proverbial fish that has heard a lot about the Great Ocean and spends an entire lifetime searching for it, not realising it has always been an inseparable part of the ocean, man spends his lifetime searching all around for God.

The Four Vedas - RIG, SAMA, YAJUR and ATHARVA are the fountainhead of ancient Indian philosophy, traditions and practices.

In this book, the author has chosen 90 verses of the Gita out of the total 700, which are purely subjective in nature.

All the literature of the world is puny and insignificant in front of the Bhagwat Gita- once remarked the famous American writer and philosopher, H.

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

A book that glorifies sadhu sanga-the association of devotees-and carries aloft the banner of pure devotional service in the modern world.

In this revelatory volume, Roberto Calasso, whom the Paris Review has called 'a literary institution', explores the ancient texts known as the Vedas.

La Bhagavadgītā es el texto más popular del hinduismo, con una notable influencia tanto en la tradición india como en el mundo moderno.

Der Weltklassiker - Zeitgemäß, lebendig und modern wie noch nie Die ›Bhagavad Gita‹, übersetzt »Gottes Gesang«, ist ein spirituelles Lehrgespräch am Vorabend eines verheerenden Krieges.