![]() |
![]() |
Your cart is empty |
||
Showing 1 - 5 of 5 matches in All Departments
What is the Nature of the social order that unquestionably produced
one of the greatest and longest lasting civilizations known to
humankind? Alain Danielou, distinguished Orientalist, musicologist,
and linguist, reveals the foundations of India's culture and the
four aims of human life as they are viewed in the traditional Hindu
society: virtue on a moral plane; success on the material and
social planes; pleasure on a sensual plane; and liberation on a
spiritual plane. Coexistent with these aims are the four stages of
life: quest for knowledge, family life, retreat into the forest,
and renunciation.
This definitive volume is the first modern translation of Vatsyayana's Kama Sutra to include two essential commentaries: the Jayamangala of Yashodhara and the modern Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastri. Alain Danilou spent four years comparing versions of the Kama Sutra in Sanskrit, Hindi, Bengali, and English, drawing on his intimate experience of India, to preserve the full explicitness of the original. I wanted to demystify India, he writes, to show that a period of great civilization, of high culture, is forcibly a period of great liberty.
Revealing the influence of Saivism on the Western world, this rare collection of articles offers an in-depth look at the many facets of the Samkya, the cosmologic doctrines of the Saivite tradition. An oftentimes poetic discussion of sexuality, the science of dreams, and polytheism, the book illuminates the relationship between Saivism and the Western world. "Revelando la influencia del Shiva en el mundo occidental, esta unica coleccion de articulos ofrece una detallada exploracion de las doctrinas cosmologicas del Shivaismo. Una discusion poetica de la sexualidad, la ciencia de los suenos y del politeismo, el libro ilumina la relacion entre el Shivaismo y la cultura occidental."
Never before translated into English, the Manimekhalai is one of the great classics of Indian culture. A second-century Tamil verse epic, it is a sequel to the Shilappadikaram (New Directions, 1965), which was also masterfully translated into prose by the acclaimed musician and scholar of Hinduism, Alain Danielou. Rich with details of the period's arts, customs, and religions, the Manimekhalai provides an extraordinary picture of an age that suddenly comes back to life. It is the story of a beautiful young dancer who decides to forego her looming career as a courtesan in order to dedicate her life (with the aid of gods, demigods, and a magic bowl called the Cow of Abundance) to charity and to attaining the "bright light of knowledge."
|
![]() ![]() You may like...
Botha, Smuts and The First World War
Antonio Garcia, Ian van der Waag
Paperback
|