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8-3H089213271x<p>BRAND NEW. Excellent condition. Never read or opened. No remainder mark. Slight yellowing of pages due to age. 8-3H089213271x</p> Bhaktivedanta Book Trust hardcover
1330053230.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
190818267<p>1st edition. Good HC no DJ. Red rib-grain cloth over boards gilt stamped titles on front cover and on spine; top edge gilt; laid paper. Lightly scuffed covers and spine; clean but for 1/2 inch dark stain near front cover tail edge and very faint drink ring at front cover center; small area of damp stain on rear cover at top fore corner; tightly bound; some age darkening of end papers; clean interior with very slight general age darkening; supple leaves. 8vo 61 pp. Cf OCLC #6955753.</p> Flushing NY: Privately Published hardcover
198018648<p>1st edition. Very Good softcover. Green and white cloth-reinforced card covers with black and white titles and design. Clean square covers and spine; slight fading along edges of front cover; lightly scuffed rear cover; tightly bound; light clean interior with very slight age darkening at page edges; supple leaves. 8vo 209 pp; biblio. See OCLC #469113698. "Iconography of religions Supplement 1".</p> E.J. Brill paperback
2007633235Alicos 2007. A few spots at bottom of cover and one at bottom of first page. Pages of text are clean bright and free of markings. Binding is tight and secure. Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes not envelopes. Soft Cover. Very Good. Alicos Paperback
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
1900235081900. Hindu religious life in India photo archive showing temple approaches Ganges riverfront ghats public ritual bathing cremation rites ascetic practice and pilgrimage activity at Benares around the turn of the twentieth century. Benares now Varanasi has long been one of Hinduism's sacred cities with miles of steps descending to the Ganges for religious bathing and temple access from the river. The Ganges is regarded by Hindus as the holiest river and ashes of the dead have traditionally been placed in its waters as part of beliefs concerning release after death. <br /> <br /> Photo archive of 28 black and white real photo postcards each measuring 3.5" x 5" India circa 1900s. The verso inscription on one card reads "Benares India" and "Burning Ghat Ganges River" anchoring the group to the sacred riverfront where funeral rites bathing temple visits and river traffic occurred in close proximity. A captioned card reading "Hindu Cremation" shows men standing around a raised pyre with a shrouded body while another scene shows a funeral pyre and stacked wood at a riverside burning ghat. Other cards show pilgrims gathered densely at the water men and women washing at the riverbank temple spires rising above crowded steps boats moored before ghats a procession moving along a road a holy man associated with fakir practice on a bed of nails and repeated views of Benares temples and riverfront architecture.<br /> <br /> At Benares religious bathing cremation pilgrimage temple worship and daily commerce shared the same riverfront making the ghats one of the most concentrated sacred landscapes in South Asia. Light edge wear toning corner wear scattered soiling and occasional fading; several cards show stronger surface wear and mounting traces. Overall in good condition. The archive shows turn of the century Hindu ritual practice through cremation ascetic discipline river ablution temple approach and pilgrimage crowds along the Ganges. unknown
19774590New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1977. Second printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. 8vo 191 pages cloth; in blue cloth custom slipcase. <br/><br/>Inscribed by the author to James O. Freedman a former President of Dartmouth College. Naipaul was awarded an honorary doctorate at Dartmouth in 1997. This is the second volume in Naipaul's India trilogy. Signed copies of the Knopf edition are quite scarce. Alfred A. Knopf 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
18870009323London: T. Fisher Unwin 1887. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo 3/4 brown morocco extra--gilt spine marbled boards corner tips bumped & scuffed large ownership inscription on front blank leaf. <br/><br/>Being an Account of the Religion and Life of the Hindus in Northern India. This is a companion volume to his HINDU MYTHOLOGY. T. Fisher Unwin 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
19545572Bombay India: Parmanand Publications 1954. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Folio clothbacked boards front hinge tender. Scarce. <br/><br/>Mehra's Parmanand Publications were devoted to promote material on Indian religiious and devotional thought by producing pictorial versions of Indian epics and devotional books. Parmanand Publications hardcover
197017676<p>Awakened University of Meditation 1970. Paperback. Very Good. Awakened University of Meditation 1970. Trade Size Paperback Condition is Very Good Mild Wear to book. Book pages clean. No markings in book. Binding is tight.</p><p>The ninth Mandala of the Rigveda also called the Soma Mandala has 114 hymns entirely devoted to Soma Pavama-na Purifying Soma the sacred potion of the Vedic religion. Similar to RV 8 it cannot be dated within the relative chronology of the Rigveda as a whole; dealing with the Soma cult a practice reaching back into Proto-Indo-Iranian times late 3rd millennium BC some of its hymns may contain the very oldest parts of the Rigveda while other hymns may be rather recent relative to the other books. </p><p>As with book 8 each hymn should be studied independently since the Soma Mandala was not compiled by the redactors in its preserved form on grounds of authorship or clan affiliation but topically grouping the Soma hymns. Very Good. 4to - over 9�"" - 12"" tall.</p> Awakened University of Meditation paperback
46677Benares: Benares Hindu University 1944. 1st edition. Contents: I.Historical Introduction; II.Ram Mohun Roy and the Brahmo Samaj; III.Justice Ranade and the Prarthana Samaj; IV.Swami Dayananda and the Arya Samaj; V.Annie Besant and the Theosophical Society; VI.The Ramakrishna Movement: Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa; VII.The Ramakrishna Movement: Swami Vivekananda; VIII.Sri Aurobindo; IX.Rabindranath Tagore; X.Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in South Africa; XI.Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha in India; XII.Professor Radhakrishnan; XIII.Conclusion; XIV.Reading List. Glossary and Index. Pp.xii/686 gift message "To Honrable Sir Lionel Leach Chief Justice Madras with grateful regards from N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar who owes him much by way of counsel & guidance. 27.10.44" to front free endpaper slight toning to endpapers. Maroon cloth gilt title to spine uneven fading to spine and edges. Scarce. G. Justice N. Chandrasekhara Aiyar was High Court Judge at Madras. "Sir Alfred Henry Lionel Leach CIE PC 3 February 1883 � 26 January 1960 popularly known as Lionel Leach was a British judge who served as a judge of the Burma High Court from 1933 to 1937 Chief Justice of the Madras High Court from 1937 to 1947 and a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council from 1949 to 1960.The most important trial of his tenure was the Lakshmikanthan Murder Case and Leach presided over the sensational trial in 1944 in which M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and N. S. Krishnan were found guilty." wiki. Benares: Benares Hindu University, 1944. hardcover
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
1855189632Hertford: Stephen Austin 1855. First edition of this early translation into English published while the translator 1834-1860 was still an undergraduate studying Sanskrit at Oxford. The first English translation of Bhagavad-gítá was completed in 1785 by Charles Wilkins. Octavo. Original blue cloth spine lettered in gilt boards panelled in blind yellow coated endpapers edges untrimmed. Title page with 1884 ownership inscription likely that of Henry J. Hood officer of the London Lodge of the Theosophical Society; partially erased 1928 ownership signature on front free endpaper recto. Spine toned and ends fraying boards bright: very good. hardcover
46670Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 1976. Reprint of the new revised single volume edition. "The Rveda the oldest literary record of the Aryan race and the sacred book of the Hindus.Griffith's is the only translation which though guided by Sayana ventures to deviate from him widely and frequently." 25cms x 19cms x 4cms. Pp.x/707 small thin loss to lower edge of front free endpaper. Blue cloth dustwrapper has wear to spine with small loss to base and top front corner tip but has a removable clear protective wrap. A heavy volume which may need extra to send overseas. VG/G. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1976. hardcover
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
19770008496New York: F. Rolin & Co. 1977. First edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo 54 pages wrappers <br/><br/>Photographs by Richard Levi. F. Rolin & Co. paperback
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2010DADAX1166259706Kessinger Publishing 2010-09-10. hardcover. New. 6.00x1.25x9.00. Buy with confidence. Excellent Customer Service & Return policy. Kessinger Publishing hardcover
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