India

India
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1811
Genre: India
ISBN:

Birds in Sanskrit Literature

Birds in Sanskrit Literature
Author: K. N. Dave
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Total Pages: 564
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9788120818422

In his monumental research in ancient sanskrit literature the author has restored gaps in lexicons and removed doubts in the later sanskrit works about the identity of a very large number of birds of the Indian sub-continent. The ancient sages of India were great lovers of nature with keen powers of observation and an extraordinary sensitivity about aninal behaviour. The Vedas Puranas, Epics and Samhitas are full of descriptions of birds, animals and plants but the exact identification of names had got lost or confounded over the centuries.

Dictionaries

Dictionaries
Author: K. Böddeker
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1897
Genre: English language
ISBN:

Chasing the Mountain of Light

Chasing the Mountain of Light
Author: Kevin Rushby
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2015-09-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1250098777

The Koh-i-Noor diamond known as the Mountain of Light, the world's largest diamond, was found in India, traveled from Golconda to the Mughal palaces in the north. Fought over, cursed at and occasionally lost, it finally reached the Sikhs in the Punjab, only to be seized by British agents eager to please young Queen Victoria. It now lies in the Tower of London where some say its curse controls the fate of the Windsor family. In Chasing the Mountain of Light, Kevin Rushby pursues the dramatic career of the Koh-i-Noor on a journey to the heart of Indian culture meeting dealers, smugglers, and petty crooks along the way. It's another adventure from Rushby whom the Washington Post recently compared to William S. Burroughs and Arthur Rimbaud.