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This book treats two representative Hindu rituals of contemporary India, Puja (offering service) and Samskara (initiation rituals at important occasions of life). Samskara rites are performed at significant junctures of an individual`s life, from birth to death, by the individual`s family. Puja ... More

Select Contents: Translation of the Bhaktirasamrtasindhu-Eastern Quadrant: The Categories of Devotion to the Lord-Southern Quadrant: Explanation of the General Characteristics of Devotional Rasa-Western Quadrant: Explanation of the Primary Devotional Rasas-Northern Quadrant: Explanation of the Secon... More

The Maratha people can point with pride to many of their poet-saints who were women of literary ability, wise in philosophy and godly in character. Bahina Bai is one of them. The present work introduces this saint-poetess whose autobiography and verses have been known to but a few outside Mahara... More

THE SAINT HERITAGE OF INDIA is a continuing series devoted to introducing readers – Indian and foreign – to saints from different Indian religious traditions and from different parts of the country. It consists of life-stories of charismatic seekers, saints, teachers, and gurus from the earliest... More

THE SAINT HERITAGE OF INDIA is a continuing series devoted to introducing readers – Indian and foreign – to saints from different Indian religious traditions and from different parts of the country. It consists of life-stories of charismatic seekers, saints, teachers, and gurus from the earliest... More

THE SAINT HERITAGE OF INDIA is a continuing series devoted to introducing readers – Indian and foreign – to saints from different Indian religious traditions and from different parts of the country. It consists of life-stories of charismatic seekers, saints, teachers, and gurus from the earliest... More

THE SAINT HERITAGE OF INDIA is a continuing series devoted to introducing readers – Indian and foreign – to saints from different Indian religious traditions and from different parts of the country. It consists of life-stories of charismatic seekers, saints, teachers, and gurus from the earliest... More

This work contains a treasury of esoteric teachings on numbers and rhythms in human life, with a dictionary of mathematicians, philosophers, occultists and writers on numbers. Contents: quotations; list of principal articles; list of principal personalities; preface; numbers and rhythms in human lif... More

Every idiomatic usage that readers encounter in Shakespeare appears here, with additional references to the works of Jonson, Bacon, and other Elizabethan authors. Includes sections on Shakespearian grammar, prosody, metaphor, and simile. Each of more than 500 classifications is illustrated with quot... More