The Silver Pilgrimage: A Novel

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King Simha of Lanka is extremely worried about his son Jayasurya’s unsympathetic disposition in matters of administration. He decides to send his self-centered and cold-of-heart son on a pilgrimage to Kashi. The king hopes that exposure to the outer world-its hardships, joys and sorrows-will make his son wiser and compassionate. Jayasurya highly eventful journey along with his bosom friend Tilaka takes him through a multitude of situations and experiences. He falls in love with Valli, the warrior princess who saves him from certain death. Reaching Kashi, Jayasurya meets a sage who imparts him with the ultimate knowledge of life and existence. On his return, death of Valli, his love, comes as a severe jolt to him, as for the first time he experiences the agony of love and death.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR M. Anantanarayanan

M ANANTANARAYANAN, son of A Madhaviah, a novelist in Tamil and English, was educated at Madras University and Cambridge. After joining the I C S, he became a judge, ending up as the Chief Justice of the Madras High Court. His other works include The Quintessence of Wisdom, an English rendering of Sri Ramana Maharishi's Thirty Verses, with an Introduction and Commentary, and a Foreword by Dr S Radhakrishnan, published by Sri Ramanasramam in 1968. M Anantanarayanan died in 1981, at the age of seventy-four.

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Title
The Silver Pilgrimage: A Novel
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Publisher
Rupa & Co., 2003
ISBN
8129100002
Length
156p.
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