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Akshaya Prakashan, English Books, Literature & Fiction, इतिहास
IN SEARCH OF LIGHT
From time of cognitive revolution, man was
curious to understand the creation and its relationship to him. His primary goal was to be
happy. He wanted to know and experience how
the creation ñ its true light ñ can direct, teach,
contribute and hold him to reach that goal. This untiring search for
the true light, resulted in the blossoming of the thoughts enshrined
in the Vedas. Vedas rested mostly on intuitive ideas, power ñ
reinforced by faith. Over the centuries, the search also took an
alternative route based on analytical and experimental discoveries,
generally covered under ìScienceî. Both are in search of the common ideals yet their approaches have been sometimes parallel and
divergent on a few other occasions. The truth and basics being
same, both contributed to each other knowingly or unknowingly.
The search still continues.
There are students devoted to either of the schools ñ Science
and Vedas ñ and they can see commonalities in thought, method
and principles. This book aims to strengthen their belief both in
intuitive logic and analytics based on observation. It further
explores such commonalities with an open mind, however accepting
the intermediary divergences as is.
The approach taken in this book is to keep the granules of the
elements as a mixture (i.e., each maintaining its identity) and not as
a alloy (losing their original properties to form a new idea itself) ñ
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
In The Arms Of A Soldier: For A Soldier, The Nation Is Always First (PB)
-15%English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहासIn The Arms Of A Soldier: For A Soldier, The Nation Is Always First (PB)
The love story of Pranali and Vikrant was an unlikely one. Pranali was an ordinary girl from Mumbai, while Vikrant was a Para Commando Major from the army. Their paths crossed one day at Victoria Garden in Kolkata, and they were drawn to each other immediately. Despite coming from different worlds, they fell deeply in love and decided to get married.
However, fate had other plans. Just two days before their wedding, Vikrant was called away on a mission. He had to leave Pranali behind, with their love story left incomplete. The pain of separation was immense, and Pranali struggled to cope with the loneliness and the uncertainty of not knowing when Vikrant would return.
Despite the challenges, Pranali held onto the hope that one day Vikrant would come back to her. She remained steadfast in her love for him, praying for his safe return and dreaming of the day when they could finally be united and together again. Their love story may have been interrupted, but it was far from over.
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
Indian Mujahideen (HB)
Indian Mujahideen
India was divded because of the obduracy of Jinnah, and in August 1947 India was partitioned and a separate country Pakistan came into existence. The demand for creation of a separate Islamic country for Muslims by dividing India was being raised since 1940. Babasaheb Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar believed that the partition of India into two countries on religious lines was not practically possible, and such a partition would be more harmful for humanity than the Nation, and lead to large-scale violence, which actually happened. Dr. Ambedkar believed that Hindus and Sikhs in the newly-created nation of Pakistan should come to India, and Muslims in India should go to Pakistan, an Islamic country created on religious lines. Despite so many years have passed, some terrorist organisations (state actors) such as Indian Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Jaish-e-Muhammed, Hizbul Mujahideen etc. have continu- ously waged a war against India and have gone forward to destabilise and disturb our socio-economic situations.
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Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Voice of India, इतिहास
Indian Muslims: who are they
Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Voice of India, इतिहासIndian Muslims: who are they
Several factors have contributed to the growth of Muslim population in India-invading armies with their retinues, constant recruitment of soldiers from across the borders, red-carpet welcome extended to immigrants from Muslim countries, forcible conversions, proselytization by means of pressures and temptations, large-scale polygamy with Hindu women, and the proverbial Muslim fecundity enjoined by express statements of the Prophet who wanted his flock to be more numerous than any other people. Dr. K.S. Lal has documented in some fulness how the continued wars of conquest waged by the Islamic invaders ensured a constant supply of Hindu prisoners of war who were sold and resold as slaves and who eventually ended up by feeding the Muslim population. It may sound cruel but the Theology of Islam does prescribe capture and enslavement of non-combatant men, women and children of the infidels as a part of the legitimate booty promised by Allah to those who fight for enforcing his commandments. The history of Islam is replete with this practice. On the other hand, Dr. Lal examines in some detail and refutes conclusively the oft-repeated theory that the Hindu caste system was responsible for conversions to Islam. He points out that the countries in the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa had no caste system and yet they succumbed completely to the onslaught of Islam. Hindus by and large resisted conversion even when the choice was between Islam and death; the pride they took in their caste, as in their religion and culture, was one of the powerful factors which prevented the Islamization of India. Micro-studies of Muslim communities in larger India including Afganistan will reveal that very few of their ancestors converted by choice to the invader’s faith, and that an overwhelming majority of them are Hindus in their origin, stock and religion. Such studies will also reveal to the Hindus that the so-called Muslims are mostly their own brothers, the lost tribes of Hinduism, who were separated from their fraternity under very special circumstances. Professor Kishori Saran Lal (1920-2002) took his doctorate degree in Medieval Indian History from the University of Allahabad in 1945. He has published a number of articles and monographs on Medieval Indian History About his History of the Khaljis (revised, 1967), the Times Literary Supplement, London, wrote: This book is unlikely to be superseded. The statement holds good for his other works also. All his books have met a world-wide acclaim.;
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरण
INDIRA GANDHI – A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
-13%English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरणINDIRA GANDHI – A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY
Twenty years after her death, a study on Indira Gandhi still exercises an interest. A chronicle of the years between 1966 and 1984 during which, except for two or three years, Indira Gandhi was India’s Prime Minister. The book is a historical study of the tumultuous events in which Indira Gandhi played a dominant role. The author has tried to piece together these momentous events into an integral narrative so that it reads like a story.
Father Benny Aguiar delves into his memory to write about the period when Indira Gandhi dominated the Indian politics. Indira became the Prime Minister of India in 1966 and remained so, barring the period 1977-79, till her assassination in 1984. She had a colossal presence and the history of India of this period got closely interwoven with her story.
It is in this sense that the book is important. It is not a historical record of events, which many other books have already done. Father Aguiar recounts from his experiences of the period to produce an emotional history that helps understand the situation as it existed then. It is a close brush with reality and tries to make an assessment about the various feelings that shaped Indira’s decision-making.
He does not justify the Emergency but tries to understand why Indira Gandhi, who was a democrat, imposed a system that she was going to denounce when she came to power again in 1980. She spoke about the country needing a healing touch. Not in a thousand years, she said, would the need arise for another Emergency.
Indira Gandhi was an enigma for most of her colleagues. She was politically smarter and could see through the events. This is why she upstaged most of them during her struggle for political survival. In doing so, she kept losing friends one after the other. Gradually her son Sanjay Gandhi was the only one she could rely on. The mother and son duo used to coordinate their activities for running the affairs of the country. But fate snatched away Sanjay from her and left her crestfallen. She gathered the loose strings and began the task of governance.
Indira Gandhi took tough and controversial decisions during her premiership. It is natural for people to dissect them post facto. A real understanding, however, will emerge only if the situation of that time is simulated. Father Aguiar tries to do that.
This is probably for the fist time that a book tries to highlight the role played by various Christian organisations during the numerous crises facing the nation during this period—whether it was the Emergency, riots, relief or rehabilitation. The book also talks of the meeting between Vatican Chief Pope John Paul II and Indira Gandhi.
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Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, English Books, इतिहास
Indra-Vrtra Myth and Tectonic Upheavals
We have great pleasure in publishing the book ‘Indra-Vrtra Myth and Tectonic Upheavals’ by our research student Dr. P.V. Pathak who prepared this research work for his Ph. D. Degree under the guidance of Prof. S.A.Upadhyaya, Director of Bhavan’s Mungalal Goenka Institute of Post-Graduate Studies and Research. The present monograph in an abridged version of his original thesis.
We hope the work will enrich the field of Indology in general and Vedic studies in particular.
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English Books, Harper Collins, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
-10%English Books, Harper Collins, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Indra’s Net: Defending Hinduism’s Philosophical Unity
Introductionbook is about the ongoing battle over Hinduism’s positioning on par with the world’s major religions. It rebuts an increasingly powerful school of thought amongst the academia, which posits that Hinduism, as such, has never existed. What is popularly considered to be Hinduism today is dismissed as a potent myth concocted by Swami Vivekananda, who supposedly appropriated and repackaged Western concepts and practices as part of a nationalist project. Moreover, it is alleged that this project has produced many of the social ills found in India today.
This battle is not merely a philosophical debate. The ramifications of a discourse that pits contemporary Hinduism against its hoary past are profound and terrifying. The claim made by my opponents that there is no such thing as Hinduism-regardless of the name we might choose to assign it-simply denies the existence of an integrated unified spiritual substratum in ancient India. This battle, therefore, is also an intellectual one, with implications for the very survival of Hinduism as a tradition with a rich past, to be understood on its own terms.
The school of thought I debunk here represents an insidious, subtle. but nevertheless powerful, form of colonialism and conversion. Indeed, no explicit act of ‘conversion’ is even necessary, one is systemically re- programmed to believe that one was never a Hindu in the first place, and that the things one cherished about Hinduism all along were simply a repackaged collection of Christian and Westem secular beliefs and values. Thus, one is made to feel that one loses nothing by abandoning Hinduism other than the term itself.
This pernicious ploy is used to create fissures in Hindu society by pitting the spiritual giants of Hinduism against one other, and to distort their subtle and deeply intricate viewpoints. The book not only disproves this dangerous line of thought, it offers a new framework in which to understand and interpret Hindu identity that is broad and yet well-defined, authentic and yet accessible, embracing both the traditional and the contemporary.
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English Books, Govindram Hasanand Prakashan, वेद/उपनिषद/ब्राह्मण/पुराण/स्मृति
Inside Vedas
1951 में भारतीय विद्या भवन से डॉ आर. सी. मजूमदार के निर्देशन में ‘वैदिक ऐज‘ भाग एक प्रकाशित हुआ था। इस भाग में वेदों के विषय में जो विचार प्रस्तुत किये गए थे, वे मुख्यतः सायण, महीधर के वाममार्गी भाष्यकारों और मैक्समूलर, ग्रिफ्फिथ के पश्चिमी अनुवादों पर आधारित थे। स्वामी दयानन्द के वेद विषयक क्रांतिकारी चिंतन की पूर्णतः अनदेखी की गई थी। बहुत कम लोगों को ज्ञात रहा कि अंग्रेजी में आर्यसमाज के सिद्धस्त लेखक श्री पन्नालाल परिहार द्वारा ‘इनसाईड वेदास‘ के नाम से वैदिक ऐज का प्रतिउत्तर प्रकाशित हुआ था। जो अपने आप में अनुपम कृति थी।
इस पुस्तक में लेखक ने अंग्रेजी भाषा में अनेक पाठों के माध्यम से वेदों की उपयोगिता, वेदों की विषय वस्तु, वेदों के भाष्यों और वेदार्थ प्रक्रिया, वेदों के विषय में भ्रांतियां, वेदों में आये विभिन्न सूक्तों में बताये गए सन्देश आदि का परिचय दिया हैं। लेखक ने सायण-महीधर के वेद भाष्य में गलतियां और स्वामी दयानन्द के वेद भाष्य में सत्यार्थ का अच्छा विवरण दिया हैं। वैदिक ऐज में वेद विषयक भ्रांतियों का लेखक ने सुन्दर और सटीक प्रतिउत्तर देकर भ्रमनिवरण किया हैं।
यह पुस्तक अंग्रेजी भाषा में लिखी एक अनुपम कृति हैं। मेरे विचार से विदेशों, दक्षिण भारत और महानगरों में रहने वाले युवाओं को वेद विषयक जानकारी देने में यह पुस्तक एक स्तम्भ का कार्य करेगी। ऐसी पुस्तक को विश्वविद्यालयों और महाविद्यालयों के पाठयक्रम में लगाया जाना चाहिए। वर्तमान परिवेश को देखते हुए वेद विषयक अंग्रेजी पुस्तकों की आर्यसमाज को नितांत आवश्यकता हैं। इसके लिए दूरगामी नीति बननी चाहिए।
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Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Suggested Books, Voice of India, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)
Islam vis-a-vis Hindu Temples
Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Suggested Books, Voice of India, इतिहास, सही आख्यान (True narrative)Islam vis-a-vis Hindu Temples
Islam has been tormenting Hindu society for more than thirteen hundred years. It has inflicted no end of grievous injuries on the Hindu homeland, Hindu population, and the Hindu heritage. It is high time Hindus should understand the system of belief from which Muslim behavior pattern evolves. Hindus have so far failed to study Islam from the orthodox sources. In fact, they have been more than willing to buy the fairy takes which the salesman of Islam have fabricated, particularly about the Prophet, the Pious Caliphs, and the Sufis.
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Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
Islamic Radicalisation In India: Origin And Challenges Book in English by Arun Anand
-15%Abrahamic religions (अब्राहमिक मजहब), English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहासIslamic Radicalisation In India: Origin And Challenges Book in English by Arun Anand
Two sets of developments have become quite visible over the last fewyears. While scores of activists belonging to Hindu organisations havebeen killed by radical Islamists; there Is also a growing clamour within a sectionof Indian Muslims to assert their religious identity aggressively and display itexplicitly.
There are some crucial aspects of radicalisation of Muslims in India thatneed to be understood. First, unlike the western world, radicalisation in India ishappening not only in urban areas but also in far flung as well as remote ruralareas. The population in rural India needs to be watched and monitored moreclosely in this regard. Second, radicalisation in India has been ‘legitimised’ in thename of ‘protecting minority rights’ by many political parties for garneringMuslim votes. Their regressive stand on issues like hijab and silence on thekilling of Hindu activists by radical Islamists further perpetuates radicalisation.Third, as a society we are refusing to learn lessons from the past. Radicalisationof Muslims led to partition of India in 1947. It is time not to be like that pigeonwho closes eyes thinking the cat doesn’t exist and ends getting eaten up.
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English Books, Vitasta Publishing, इतिहास
JINNAH HELPED HINDUS AND OTHER REFLECTIONS
The cocktail of subjects touched upon in Jinnah helped Hindus and Other Reflections may surprise some readers by their diversity. From a young boy questioning why with a galaxy of freedom fighters, we have Gandhi’s portrait on all our currency notes, especially when money was his last concern to how Jinnah actually helped Hindus. Why Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, who welcomed Muslim migrants with open arms, is today offering them 3000 Euros as a return package? Many of the essays ask truly relevant questions. According to the author the Babri Masjid should be called Babri maqbarah since it is not a masjid. How acute is the threat of Islamisation of Europe? What is the future of minorities in Pakistan? Why did Jinnah call the Aligarh Muslim University the ‘arsenal of Pakistan’? Prafull Goradia also analyses why Indians still prefer sarkari jobs over others and what the causes of the failure of State Capitalism are. In the essay ‘Cricket in Need of a Revolution’ the author is critical of the fact that India has only one competitive international cricket team. Almost the same players play Test matches, One-dayers as well as twenty-20s. Why? We overstrain these players and might even be risking the quality of their game. Every reader will find something of interest in this collection of essays.
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरण
K.R. Malkani & The Motherland : Voices of the Nation
-10%English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास, जीवनी/आत्मकथा/संस्मरणK.R. Malkani & The Motherland : Voices of the Nation
In its brief existence of about four years, between 1971 and 1975, ʻThe Motherlandʼ, edited by K.R. Malkani (1921-2003) achieved rare distinction and recognition in the world of journalism. It established itself as a fearless and uninhibited voice of the nation, relentlessly exposing the decay seeping into India’s body-politic by the early 1970s. In that respect ʻThe Motherland’sʼ advocacy of ʻIndia Firstʼ and its unalloyed articulation of India’s national interest remain unsurpassed. It was also its strident and uncompromising criticism of the Indira Congress and the Prime Minister’s ways, which eventually led Indira Gandhi to shut it down at the first given opportunity after she imposed the Emergency. ʻThe Motherlandʼ was, “The only paper in India to announce on 26th June the imposition of the Emergency, arrest of leaders and the wave of national shock.” This collection of K.R.Malkani’s columns in ʻThe Motherlandʼ offers an insight into Indian politics and society in the years just before Emergency was imposed by Indira Gandhi. It is a record of India’s political history a quarter century after independence and is a very useful reckoner for the general reader for understanding the years that led to the imposition of the Emergency.
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास
K.R. Malkani Hindu-Muslim Dialogue
“The BJP believes in the unity of the Hindustan Peninsula and the equality of all its people. It stands for “Justice for all and appeasement of none”. It welcomes diversity so long as it does not destroy our overall unity. It invites the people of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh to get over the trauma of the last fifty years, and draw on the historic experience of preceding centuries to weave a new and happier pattern of life in the Hindustan Peninsula. After all the hullabaloo about riots, most of the Hindus and Muslims are living in peace and amity most of the time. India and Pakistan, with all their hostility, have never fought for more than two weeks at a time. (Iran and Iraq bled each other for eight long years!) Even in the year of Partition, the best singers in Har Mandir, Amritsar, were Muslims. The men, who built the ‘samadhi’ of Dr. Hedgewar, the founder of RSS, in Nagpur, were Muslims. With all our diversities, we in the Hindustan Peninsula are One People, whatever the number of states. We can, and must, live in peace and amity.
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English Books, MANAS PUBLICATIONS, इतिहास
Kashmir Is Free
About the Book: Kashmir is Free Just imagine the unimaginable. India walks out of Kashmir and makes Kashmir FREE. Huh?! How is that possible? Why should that happen? And how could that seemingly impossible situation be brought about? And wait … what happens to the regions of Jammu and Ladakh… and how will they react? And what happens to the Kashmir Valley once it achieves its long-cherished goal of independence? KASHMIR IS FREE is that fictional, what-if peep into a not-too-distant future when Kashmir attains freedom from India. Spread over 48 chapters, this astoundingly realistic and edge-of-the-seat politico-bureaucratic thriller will grip you by the throat and
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Akshaya Prakashan, English Books, Religious & Spiritual Literature, इतिहास
Kashmir the land of Rishis
-11%Akshaya Prakashan, English Books, Religious & Spiritual Literature, इतिहासKashmir the land of Rishis
Kashmir is called the Garden of Rishis (Reshiver). Kashyapa Rishi, considered the founder of Kashmir mandala, is one of the Saptrishis mentioned in the Rig Veda. He is considered to be the Prajapati or progenitor of mankind. The pristine nature of Kashmir nurtured a host of sages or rishis in its bosom like Bharat Muni, Utpaladeva, Panini and many others who carry the credit of making Kashmir the land of Vedic knowledge and the ancient centre of learning. The rishi tradition in Kashmir has been very powerful and continued to be inherited by the Hindus of the valley until the advent of Islam in the 14th century.
Rajatarangini, the celebrated history of ancient Kashmir brought down up to CE 1149, gives excellent account of the impact of Rishi teachings on the people of the land, the foremost of which was non-violence and peaceful coexistence. Rishi teachings and their lives were the role model for the people of ancient Kashmir to be tied down to the unwritten constitution of nature which means that their teachings had gone into the blood and become part of entire social structure. The fact is that the teachings of those rishis can be called the foundation on which the huge edifice of Kashmiriyat was raised.
The advent of the Islamic faith in Kashmir through the Muslim missionaries of Iran and Central Asia is a unique phenomenon in the history of mankind. Firstly, the entire basis of the religion brought from Arabia was in no way similar to those that had flourished in Kashmir for centuries. Secondly, the tribal culture which had shaped the religious construct of the Muhammadans was fully alien to the culture of the people in ancient Kashmir. Thirdly, and very significantly, the Iranian or Central Asian missionaries who brought the Islamic faith to Kashmir were the progeny of proselytised ancestors of Aryan stock and not of Semitic stock. Psychologists and anthropologists tell us that a society entirely converting to a new faith, for whatever reasons, generally panders to extremism in the new faith just because either it wants to convince the conqueror of its faithfulness to the new civilization or vies with the conqueror to prove that he is a better adherent to the new faith brought to him. This is exemplified by the animus and hatred which today’s Iran nurses against the Israelis.
This is a book in which, the author has inserted photographs of numerous temples, shrines (asthapans), viharas, stupas, ponds, water bodies, hillocks, structures etc. most of these in dilapidated condition owing to the vagaries of weather and eccentricities of human nature. The author has visited most of these places personally and described how arduous journeys he had to undertake to get their photographs and make a small note culled out from books of history or from the stories collected from the local elders who have inherited the stories from their elders. Being a retired military officer, he thankfully acknowledges the logistic support he received from his friends in the services and which helped him immensely in writing this account.SKU: n/a -
English Books, Parimal Publications, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्र
Kautilyas Arthasastra (Set of 2 Volumes)
-10%English Books, Parimal Publications, राजनीति, पत्रकारिता और समाजशास्त्रKautilyas Arthasastra (Set of 2 Volumes)
The Arthasastra summarizes the political thoughts of Kautilya. The book contains detailed information about specific topics that are relevant for rulers who wish to run an effective government. Diplomacy and war (including military tactics) are the two points treated in most detail but the work also includes recommendations on law, prisons, taxation, irrigation, agriculture, mining, fortifications, coinage, manufacturing, trade, administrations, diplomacy, and spies.
The Arthasastra explores issues of social welfare, the collective ethics that hold a society together, advising the king that in times and in areas devastated by famine, epidemic and such acts of nature, or by war, he should initiate public projects such as creating irrigation waterways and building forts around major strategic holdings and towns and exempt taxes on those affected. The text was influential on other Hindu texts that followed, such as the sections on king, governance and legal procedures included in Manusmrti.
Likely to be the work of several authors over centuries, Kautilya, also identified as Visnugupta and Canakya, is traditionally credited as the author of the text. The Arthasastra was influential until the 12th century, when it disappeared. It was rediscovered in 1905 by R. Samasastri, who published it in 1909. The first English translation was published in 1915.
The present book contains Original Sanskrit text, verse by verse English translation and notes of R. Samasasti along with an exhaustive Introduction by Dr. Ashok Kumar Shukla.
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English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास, महाभारत/कृष्णलीला/श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता
Krishna Janmabhoomi (PB)
-10%English Books, Prabhat Prakashan, इतिहास, महाभारत/कृष्णलीला/श्रीमद्भगवद्गीताKrishna Janmabhoomi (PB)
“The sole intention of the outcome of the book is do provide clearer view with regard to the position of the Krishna Janmasthan and Shahi Idgah Mosque. I have written this book so that Readers may arrive at a conclusion themselves with regard to status quo of the disputed site whether it is a Temple or a Mosque.
The book encompasses vividly the historical facts with regard to Krishna Janmabhoomi and Shahi Idgah mosque, legal position what is and what should be. It’s not only about the historical facts but then also about the Islamic law, Hindu Dharmshastras, culture & practices and above all a broader picture in the light of the Constitution of India.
Efforts have been made to keep this book as a complete package of historical, philosophical and legal treatise with a flow and language that even the layman could assimilate it.”
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English Books, Parimal Publications, वेद/उपनिषद/ब्राह्मण/पुराण/स्मृति
Kurma Purana English
The Purana is a distinct branch of learning. It is treated as one of the Vidyas like the Samkhya and the Vedanta, it has its distinct theory of cosmology. The major Puranas are considered to be eighteen in numbers, known by Maha Puranas are considered to be eighteen in numbers, known by maha-Puranas. One of the important Puranas among the eighteen Maha-Purana is kurma Mahapurana, in which the narrator is Lord Visnu himself, in the form of a Kurama (tortoise).
Kurma Purana is divided into two sections, viz., Purava-Bhaga and Uttara-Bhaga. There are various stories in this Purana, full of great learning. Initially, the origin of Prajapatis, the duties of our Varna’s, and ht source of the livelihood of each of the varnas have been described. Similarly, the characteristics of Dharma, Artha, Kama, and Moksa have also been spelled out.
The characteristics of the great devotees, their conduct, their diet, etc. and the characteristics of the castes and stages of life have also been added in this Purana. Thereafter, the primordial creation, the seven coverings of the Anda (cosmic egg), and the origin of Hiranyagarbha have been related in this Purana.
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