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Penguin Epics #05: The Abduction of Sita
by R. K. Narayan  Publisher Comments Ravana, the Supreme Lord, has enslaved all the gods. When he catches a glimpse of the princess Sita, he falls under her spell and steals her away. Her husband, Rama, will do anything to get her back. With the help of the brave monkey Hanuman, he journeys...
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Handbook of Hindu Mythology (Handbooks of World Mythology)
by George Williams Publisher Comments Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hinduism thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its symbolic representations of love, karma, and reincarnation. Handbook of Hindu Mythology offers an...
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Bollingen Series #0006: Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
by Heinrich Zimmer Publisher Comments This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India's legend, myth, and folklore, taken directly from the Sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image-thinking and picture-reading in...
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Gods of Love and Ecstasy: The Traditions of Shiva and Dionysus
by Alain Danielou Publisher Comments Shiva and Dionysus are the Hindu and Greek gods of magical power, intoxication,ecstatic sexuality, and transcendence who initiate us into communion withthe creative forces of life. Revealing the earliest sources of the traditionsof Shiva and Dionysus...
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Indian Fairy Tales
by Joseph Jacobs Publisher Comments Wonders of India: rajahs, ogres, magic, Buddhist jatakas, episodes from great epics. 29 complete stories. 46 illus....
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Mythology: India
by Rachel Storm Publisher Comments In this authoritative and accessible reference book the fascinating and powerful tales and legends of South and Central Asia are revealed in all their magnificence. This exciting publication will be essential reading for anyone interested in the myths...
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Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists
by Ananda Coomaraswamy Publisher Comments Great stories of the epics; deeds of Krishna, Shiva, taken from puranas, Vedas, folk tales, more. 32 illustrations....
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The Goddesses' Henchmen: Gender in Indian Hero Worship
by Lindsey Harlan Publisher Comments This book examines the worship of ancestral heroes in Rajasthan, India. Arguing that Rajput hero stories and songs encapsulate and express ideals of perfection and masculinity, it analyzes representations of wives and goddesses as tacit allies...
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Flowering Tree & Other Oral Tales From
by A K Ramanujan Publisher Comments This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited...
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An Incarnation of the Snow
by F W Bain Publisher Comments An Incarnation of the Snow reminds us of the consort of Lord Shiwa - Uma or Parvati - snowy Himalayas daughter. Herein is a deep understanding of the true politics of gender in which the union of the opposites creates a state of bliss without which the...
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The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 1: Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra
by Alf Hiltebeitel Publisher Comments This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic, the Mahabharata, that the cult brings to life in mythic, ritual, and dramatic forms. Draupadi, the...
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In the Great God's Hair
by F W Bain Publisher Comments The Great God is Shiwa, whose matted hair catches and conducts the descent of the river of life in its passage from heaven to earth. Also to be found in the hair of Shiwa, adorning his brow like a diadem, is the crescent moon. This represents the cup of...
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The myths of Narasiçmha and Våamana :two avatars in cosmological perspective
by Deborah A Soifer Book News Annotation Translates two accounts from early Sanskrit literature of the god Visnu taking physical form to vanquish demons threatening the cosmic balance. Analyzes the tales in the contexts of the textual history, religion, and the cosmology of classical...
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Ka
by Roberto Calasso Publisher Comments With the same startling originality and brilliance that made his Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony a literary landmark, Roberto Calasso narrates the birth of one of the world's great cultures: the formation of the mind of India. He doesn't explain or...
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From the Mango Tree and Other Folktales from Nepal (World Folklore)
by Kavita Ram Shrestha Publisher Comments This collection of tales, the only one of its kind currently available in the United States, introduces you to the treasures of an ancient and rapidly changing culture. Selected and translated by Kavita Ram Shrestha of Nepal, the 15 stories range in tone...
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Pomegranate Princess & Other Tales from India
by Edward Hower Book News Annotation According to the publisher, the first architectural history of Pompeii written in English in this century. The author tells the story of the city--a keystone in the architectural history of antiquity--giving a house-by-house tour. Fifty ground plans...
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Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
by Roberto Calasso Synopsis With the same narrative fecundity he brought to "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, " Calasso plunges Western readers into the consciousness of ancient India....
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The Eternal Cycle: Indian Myth
by Charles Phillips Publisher Comments A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests....
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Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology
by Wendy D Oflaherty
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Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas
by Cornelia Dimmitt
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