Kumbh
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The volume presents the comprehensive research findings and includes city maps, aerial images, analytical drawings and photographs of this spectacular Ephemeral Mega City for the Kumbh Mela. Kumbh Mela is the largest religious celebration on earth and the biggest public gathering in the world. The resulting settlement is a virtual mega city!
The Kumbh Mela deploys its own roads, pontoon bridges as well as tents serving as residences and venues for spiritual ...
The Kumbh mela is a great experience to behold, whereby a spiritual extravaganza is planned and executed in few months time. The book is a humble tribute to the legends that are the backbone of this great event that takes place after regular intervals in four places in India, to the beliefs and customs that are associated with the sacred dip and salvation, to the colossal effort gone into creating a grand event. The Kumbh is an experience of a lifetime-a ...
Here to Eternity depicts a fascinating pictorial journey from samsara (day to day world) to nirvana (salvation), a journey that has fascinated scholars and writers, rationalists and spiritualists alike across centuries. And perhaps nowhere else this journey comes to life more vividly and colourfully than at the Kumbh and the Gangasagar congregations. Barun Datta s camera lingers lovingly on the teeming multitude at Kumbha Mela and Gangasagar Mela to offer us a ...
Mahakumbh is a celebration of faith and spirituality .During Mahakumbh Prayag, Allahabad, 2013, a record 100 million people took part without any invitation and discrimination of caste. This book has more than 175 coloured photographs which were taken by eminent photographers.
The present book gives vivid description and general introudction of the invincible fort of Kumbhalgarh which was built by Maharana Kumbha on the high packs of Arawali terrain to protect territories of Mewar from the Muslim invaders and other outside incursion. In the begining of the book the geographical ;ocation of fort and the historical background of it have been traced out in the simple language adorned with the lucid style. The strategic importance, the ...
The book is a research work on the topic 'Theory and Practice of Kalasa Karanas and Sthanaka - Mandala Bheda' from Kumbharaja's NrtyaRatnaKosa to the sincere lovers of Dance.The book exhibits Dr. Sandhya Purecha's deep knowledge in the subject and her research acumen coupled with aesthetically perfect performances. The illustrations presented in the book are not only supporting but they orient the reader with the point through lucidity of language and clarity in ...
One of the major Hindu religious occasions, the Kumbh Mela occurs four times every twelve years and rotates among four hallowed locations: Allahabad (Prayag), Haridwar, Ujjain and Nashlk where the sacred drops of the mythical amrita (nectar) from the Amrtit Kumbh (urn of nectar) are said to have fallen. Once every twelve years the planets align m a configuration eagerly awaited by millions of devotees. It is time for Haridwar Kumbha Mela. The Kumbh Mela at ...
Kumbh Mela is the single largest religious congregation or, in fact, human gathering of any kind on earth. Located at the sacred rivers when Jupiter, Sun and Moon are in precise positions, the Nectar of immortality flows for blessing all mankind. Since pre-history, sadhus, emperors, ascetics, saints, sages and householders have collected by the waters with ceremony. The holy men and women live in ways we could barely imagine until now. This book introduces us to ...
For centuries, devout Indians have congregated at the Sangam in Allahabad for a holy dip during the Kumbh festival. But Mahakumbh 2001 can be described as a historic event with a rare celestial planetary configuration occurring on this occasion. Millions from India’s countryside and urban metropolises, as also 100,000 foreigners, contributed in their own ways in making the many splendoured Mela an international event. The author, who was the ...
Maharana Kumbha of Mewar, who was the preceptor of medieval Indian renaissance, built his greatest monument, the Kirttistambha in the fort of Chittorgadh (Rajasthan) between 1440 and 1460 A.D. It is generally known by the misnomer 'Vijaya-Stambha' (The tower of victory), though it was not built to commemorate a military event. The author has examined here the fundamental question: what was the 'idea' which led to its incarnation in such a beautiful 'form', under ...
The present work is an attempt to outline the essential features of the cultural history of Prayaga from varied sources with a view to bringing out that magnetic quality of the Tirtharaja which has been attracting multitudes from far and near. The greatness of Prayaga, perceptible since the Vedic period, is adumbrated in the Epic-Puranic literature, and is attested by epigraphic records, Buddhist and Jaina texts, foreign (Chinese, Muslim and European) accounts, ...
Mahakumbh-2001 celebrated on the holy confluence of the river Ganges, Yamuna and the invisible Saraswati at Allahabad was extremely auspicious due to rare planetary conjunctions that occurred after a long gap of 144 years. Mahakumbh 2001, organized between 9 January and 21 February 2001 at Allahabad, was a confluence of spiritual sublimity, human faith and managerial perfection; where during a period of 42 days about 100 million devotees visited the city and on ...
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Kumbh Mela at Prayag in Allahabad is a great event in India Where Hindu saints and sages congregated; this volume brings out a scintilating account of this with exquisite photographs and lucid text.
This study attempts at projecting Prayag (Allahabad) as one of the four major focal centres of eastern consciousness. As a moving open university showing a continuum of spiritual and cultural traditions of over 2500 years, Prayag is a vibrant centre of the Indian vision of the world as one family and is, in fact, an epicenter of joy, divine contact and bliss, the much sought-after goal of the Hindu way of life. The study endeavours to explain that with deep faith ...
Kumbhalgarh has played an important role in the history of Mewar, particularly from the time of Maharana Kumbha to Maharana Pratap. It is located at a distance of 80 km north-west of Udaipur and about 48 km to the west of Rajsamand in Rajasthan. Due to the strategic location of the Fort, Maharana Pratap continued to retain his second capital here at Kumbhalgarh. In this monograph, an attempt has been made to highlight the historical background ...
The Classic India Series portrays the panorama of India's cultural heritage. For centuries India was perceived as the land of fabulous riches, of wisdom, of mystique and romance. It is this magic that the series captures. The Kumbh Mela goes back several millennia in history and is of great significance to Hindus. It is held every three years, and then every twelfth year it moves to Allahabad, to the triveni sangam or confluence of the three rivers Ganga, ...
Where the Ganges and the Jamna meet people from many,many different traditions of Hinduism come together. Therewill be many genuinely holy men, some charlatans, and someobscurantists. But the majority of those who come to bathe inthe Sangam will be villagers. The Kumbh is an awe-inspiringdemonstration of simple piety and a clear example of the powerof myth.This is a small book presenting the Kumbh Mela, the biggestreligious festival in India. The renowned ...