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The Uddhava Gita is Lord Krishna’s most esoteric teaching, and is an important document in Hindu literature. In contrast to its cousin text, the Bhagavad Gita, there exist only five or six English translations of the Uddhava Gita, most of which are severely outdated and written in poor English with archaic commentaries. Happily, this new translation remedies the situation.
Krishna’s Other Song: A New Look at the Uddhava Gita examines the entire ...
This extremely useful reference work on Vaisnave literature is the result of a team of photographers and researchers who spent eighteen months in India, locating, identifying and photographing numerous hand-printed, paper and palm-leaf manuscripts as well as some printed editions from the Vaisnava traditioins, now available on microfilms in the Adyar Library, the Bodleian Library, and the American University Library. The purpose of the catalogue of Vaisnava ...
In the Garden of Loneliness presents the reader with a translation into English of one of the masterpieces of Modern Hindi literature. This masterpiece is Jayshankar Prasad's ANSU. The imagery throughout this long poem (190 stanzas) is of a desperate love, felt by the poet, for a sweetheart who has somehow left him or deserted him. The setting is in a beautiful garden, made desolate by the absence of the beloved. As the introduction ...