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3849520684.Ghardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. hardcover
1241338922.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
19506698Cape Comorin: Hari Kumari Arts 1950. First edition. 9x13cm 12ff with 12 photographs mounted at corners on stiff card stock with captions facing. Staple bound in printed card wrappers. One photo corner chipped otherwise very good. <br /> <br /> Interesting little booklet published by the Hari Kumari Arts Gallery in Kanyakumari India which was established in 1950. Tells the story of Anasuya an ascetic character in the Hindu epic Ramayana wife of Safe Atri and known for her great austerity. According to Hindu tradition Anasuya and Atri lived at Gnanaranya now called Suchindram in India's Tamil Nadu province site of the famous Thanumalayan temple. <br /> <br /> OCLC cites a single holding at the University of Newcastle Auchmuty Library in Australia. <br /> <br /> . Hari Kumari Arts unknown
1896000013187Boston: Roberts Brothers 1896. Later edition. Hardcover. Very near Fine. 8vo. 7 8-185 1 6 pages of publisher's advertisements 2 pp. Green publisher’s cloth with a gilt wheel with feathers in gilt and gilt floral design on the front board gilt lettering a gilt harp and publisher’s device in gilt on the spine. Translated from the Sanskrit text by Edwin Arnold M.A. The preface contains an overview of the recent publication history of the Gîtâ. An inscription that reads "To Annie Russell with All Good Wishes Always these four words underlined." Annie Russell Yorke's bookplate on the front pastedown. Encyclopedia.com "Russell Annie 1864–1936". Rollins College "Annie Russell 1864-1936: Actress and Theater Legend". Annie Russell was an American stage actress who began her career at the early age of 8 and went on to star in numerous plays. In 1912 she founded and ran the Annie Russell Old English Comedy Company and staged revivals of a few classic English stage comedies. Rollins College has a theater named after her funded by Russell's friend Mary Louise Curtis Zimbalist. A fascinating association copy of the Gîtâ. A touch of rubbing the cloth. Roberts Brothers hardcover
190022411London: The Colonial Press 1900. Revised edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in half crimson morocco and marbled boards t.e.g. Revised edition. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> The Colonial Press hardcover
186175210London: N. Trubner and Co. 1861. The first edition in Sanskrit and first edition in English. Oblong folio 12 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches printed in the landscape manner the spine is actually the top of the book. xi 1 268 pp. preface by Theodor Golsdstucker with text printed in two columns plus the 121-page facsimile of the original Sutra at rear. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth with blind-stamped borders nicely rebacked a great while ago retaining almost all of the original spine spine with gilt lettering and a gilt Ganesh device pale yellow endpapers Smallish call letters in orange at base of spine library accession stamp and two previous owner's signatures on front pastedown and endpaper tips bumped. The major part of the sutra is unopened. Overall a very good copy of quite a scarce title.Kalpa means "proper fit" and is one of the six disciplines of the Ved nga or ancillary science connected with the Vedas – the scriptures of Hinduism. This field of study is focused on the procedures and ceremonies associated with Vedic ritual practice. Kalpa is a Sanskrit word that means "proper fit competent sacred precept" and also refers to one of the six Vedanga fields of study. The Manava Sutra is classed as a being in the Yajurveda discipline and concerns ritual instructions and formula. This particular texts deals with the sacred geometry of altars. Manava would have not have been a mathematician in the sense that we would understand it today. Nor was he a scribe who simply copied manuscripts like Ahmes. He would certainly have been a man of very considerable learning but probably not interested in mathematics for its own sake merely interested in using it for religious purposes. Theodor Goldstücker was a German Sanskrit scholar professor of Sanskrit in University College London and founder of the Sanskrit Text Society. He dedicated the book to the great German physician Rudolf Virchow. N. Trubner and Co. hardcover
183574915Oxford: D. A. Talboys 1835. First separate edition in English. Quarto. 146 pp. Publisher's mustard cloth with printed paper spine label. Extremities with some wear paper label somewhat soiled though still legible tips bruised. Nonetheless a very good clean and complete copy of this scarce translation in the publisher's binding. No copies at auction according to RBH.The love story of Nala and Damayanti is part Vana Parva of the great Hindu epic the Mahabharata. It is a love story and is quite complex with Kali making an appearance but it ends on a happy note. The Mahabharata itself was translated into English just one year prior though for all practical purposes this is the first portion of it to become available to the reading public in England. Henry Hart Milman was an English historian and ecclesiastic. The son of Baronet he was educated at Oxford and had a brillan career. He won the Newdigate prize with a poem on the Apollo Belvidere in 1812 was elected a fellow of Brasenose in 1814 and in 1816 won the English essay prize with his Comparative Estimate of Sculpture and Painting. In 1816 he was ordained and two years later became parish priest of St Mary's Reading. In 1821 Milman was elected professor of poetry at Oxford; and in 1827 he delivered the Bampton lectures on The character and conduct of the Apostles considered as an evidence of Christianity. In 1835 Sir Robert Peel made him Rector of St Margaret's Westminster and Canon of Westminster and in 1849 he became Dean of St Paul's. He was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1864. Milman was buried in the crypt of St. Paul's Cathedral where his grave was marked by an elaborate tomb. D. A. Talboys hardcover
