Samskara

Samskara
Author: U. R. Anantha Murthy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 174
Release: 1989
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780195610796

Made into a powerful, award-winning film in 1970, this important Kannada novel of the sixties has received widespread acclaim from both critics and general readers since its first publication in 1965. As a religious novel about a decaying brahmin colony in the south Indian village of Karnataka, Samskara serves as an allegory rich in realistic detail, a contemporary reworking of ancient Hindu themes and myths, and a serious, poetic study of a religious man living in a community of priests gone to seed. A death which stands as the central event in the plot brings in its wake a plague, many more deaths, live questions with only dead answers, moral chaos, and the rebirth of one man. The volume provides a useful glossary of Hindu myths, customs, Indian names, flora, and other terms. Notes and an afterword enhance the self-contained, faithful, and yet readable translation.

Sanskrit Non-Translatables

Sanskrit Non-Translatables
Author: Rajiv Malhotra
Publisher: Manjul Publishing
Total Pages: 302
Release:
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9390085489

Sanskrit Non-Translatables is a path-breaking and audacious attempt at Sanskritizing the English language and enriching it with powerful Sanskrit words. It continues the original and innovative idea of nontranslatability of Sanskrit, first introduced in the book, Being Different. For English readers, this should be the starting point of the movement to resist the digestion of Sanskrit into English, by introducing loanwords into their English vocabulary without translation. The book presents a thorough mechanism of the process of digestion and examines the loss of adhikara for Sanskrit because of translating its core ideas into English. The movement launched by this book will resist this and stop the programs that seek to turn Sanskrit into a dead language by translating all its treasures to render it redundant. It discusses fifty-four non-translatables across various genres that are being commonly mistranslated. It empowers English speakers with the knowledge and arguments to introduce these Sanskrit words into their daily speech with confidence. Every lover of India’s sanskriti will benefit from the book and become a cultural ambassador propagating it through routine communications.

Hindu Saṁskāras

Hindu Saṁskāras
Author: Rajbali Pandey
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1987
Genre: History
ISBN: 9788120803961

The Hindu Samskaras give expression to aspirations and ideals of the Hindus. They aim at securing the welfare of the performer and developing his personality.

The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction

The Philosophy of Yoga in Contemporary American Fiction
Author: Sukhbir Singh
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2024-07-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1036406873

Following the Second World War, yoga has asserted its presence in America and impacted the American culture, arts, and literature. This book offers extensive explications of Saul Bellow’s Mr. Sammler’s Planet, J.D. Salinger’s “Teddy,” John Updike’s S.: A Novel, and Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five in the light of the four different yoga philosophies interwoven into their respective narrative structures. The comparative analyses of these four contemporary American fictions unveil the deeper mystical motifs implicit in their plots, stories, themes, and characters’ behavioural patterns. The exhaustive interpretations of texts in the five successive chapters put forth an exposition of how the ancient Indic philosophy and contemporary American fiction interact to explicate and enrich each other. The book adds a unique, unconventional dimension to the comparative and interdisciplinary investigation into contemporary American fiction and thereby opens up new vistas of an off-beat interface between the Eastern philosophy and Western literature.

The Philosophy of Classical Yoga

The Philosophy of Classical Yoga
Author: Georg Feuerstein
Publisher: Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1996-06
Genre: Health & Fitness
ISBN: 9780892816033

This book differs from other studies of Patanjali's Yoga-Sutra in that it places it in its original context and sees it as the source of the whole edifice of classical yoga and not just as a summary of previous developments. An essential reference for students and practitioners of yoga's philosophical foundations.

Hindu Saṃskāra

Hindu Saṃskāra
Author: Laksmi Sinha
Publisher:
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

On Hindu rituals.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eastern Philosophy
Author: Jay Stevenson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780028638201

You're no idiot, of course. You know Eastern philosophy encompasses many countries and concepts, but when it comes to breaking down the basics—to discuss with others or for your own enlightenment—you can't tell Confucius from Krishna. Don't nix nirvana just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Eastern Philosophy is an extensive, reader-friendly guide that maps out the terrain along the various paths of knowledge. In this Complete Idiot's Guide®, you get: