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One may find many books on yoga written by great yogis in the past and even today. Most of the yogis emphasize mainly on the spiritually attainment through yoga practice. Due to certain inhibitions they skip the beauty aspect of human body. If we see the ancient sculptures of various religions and holy places in India we find vividness and character in the sculptures. These sculptures vibrate with rare sensitivity and warmth of emotions.
Can we achieve such a ...
While much has been written about the temple architecture of Odisha in general there have been until now few studies which focus on the art of any single sect of Brahmanical religion. Yet such studies are great importance not only in contributing to an understanding of stylistic development, But for th proper assessment of the iconographical and architectural features of a major branch of Brahmanical religious structures.
The art of Saiva, a dominant section of ...
Lofty philosophical subtleties of Trika school of Kashmir Shaiua wisdom shrouded in intricate Sutras, have been unfolded in rational investigative manner for a modern thinker, in a captivating conversational language, by the author Tej Raina in Trika, the Kashmir Shaiua Essence. Beginning with the perceptive experiences each one of us has, he develops a coherent, thought-provoking argument that helps to visualize the profound Trika communication, handed down from ...
With Special Reference to Amiri Baraka, Adrienne Kennedy & August Wilson
Traditional life style of Gaida Lohar, nomadic community of Rajasthan, India.
This book contains state of the art reviews by leading world authorities on tea science. It opens up new vistas of discovery for researchers and offers altnerate solutions to presistent problems for policy planners and vigilant tea planters. It will also serve as a mine of information to those individuals, researchers, policy planners in the corporate sectors and the governments, who seek solutions to vexing problems in other fields of knowledge. Tea ...
The unique and fascinating heritage of the Himalayan region about the dancing Gods is still virtually unknown to the scholars and general readers. The mountain region of Mandi in Himachal Pradesh abounds in an abundant treasures of religion and mythological materials. In this book, perhaps for the first time in any language of the world, an unknown cult has been dissected threadware which is so dear to its devotees and holds its sway in spite of all modern ...
Environmental Geoscience is an area that has assumed great significance in recent years in view of the impact of human activity on the geological environment. This volume is a collection of research papers on different aspects of the subject including regional environment, water pollution, geological hazards, mining environment education and environmental management.
In an experimental subject like Astrology there is always something fresh to be said, and much that needs to be told anew in the light of a more catholic experience than that enjoyed by astrological authors of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The discovery of the planet Uranus on the 13th of March, 1781, and of Neptune of the 20th of September, 1846, has enlarged the field of our researches, and put us in touch with causative influences hitherto ...
Monuments of India has not any of its parameters or its own angles, or even its own diction to define or delineate a monument. It endeavours to read a monument's own diction, see from its own angle and assess its magnitudious- ness by its own parameters. Its vision of Taj is shere poetry, as Taj is a poem, a song, an elegy composed in marble, its interpretation of Khajuraho sculptures and building structures of Fatehpur Sikri is thought provoking as they were ...
Gandhi was not only the most unique man of the twentieth century and the prime inspiration of several world leaders like Nelson Mandela, Julius Nyerere, Dr. Kenneth Kaunda, Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, and many others in their struggle for liberation and justice but has also been the theme of hundreds of books. He himself wrote his life story and volumes of his experiments with life and many of its truths and values. He wielded for decades great influence over ...
India’s great spiritual and aesthetic past, outside influences, and a six hundred years ever changing political, social and religious scenario greatly diversified both, the theme and the style of Indian miniatures. In its few inches length and width the canvas of an Indian miniature is seen translating into its lines and colours the legends of ages, faith of generations, eternal yearnings of those who were in love, glow of youthful faces, serenity of soul, ...
Adi-Granth, holy scripture of the Sikhs is composed in various ragas and arranged according to their order. Towards the end there is special mention of hierarchy of ragas, the 'ragamala's. I also contains 'Barah-maha' - the constant longing of the soul for the Eternal God expressed over a period of twelve months. The present volume is a novel attempt to depict these religious compositions through the medium of colour. What could be hitherto only heard as a string ...