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"Krishna: The Beautiful Legend of God" contains the tenth and most significant book in the popular Indian epic "Srimad Bhagavata Purana," which is the principal source for the story of Krishna, worshipped by many Hindus as the Supreme Being. Devoted to Krishnaas miraculous incarnation, this collecti... More

In the West Krishna is primarily known as the speaker of the Bhagavad Gita. But it is the stories of Krishna's childhood and his later exploits that have provided some of the most important and widespread sources of religious narrative in the Hindu religious landscape. This volume brings together ne... More

For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy. It also provides a kind of template for the basic issues involved in the debates by addressing four major areas. First, archaeologists focus on some of the recent findings and arguments in ... More

A landmark new translation and edition Written almost two millennia ago, Patanjali's work focuses on how to attain the direct experience and realization of the "purusa": the innermost individual self, or soul. As the classical treatise on the Hindu understanding of mind and consciousness and on the ... More

Dancing and chanting with their shaven heads and saffron robes, Hare Krishnas presented the most visible face of any of the eastern religions transplanted to the West during the sixties and seventies. Yet few people know much about them. This comprehensive study includes more than twenty contributio... More

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilization was the joint product of an invading Indo-European people--the "Indo-Aryans"--and indigenous non-Indo European peoples. Although Indian scholars reject this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western scholarship gives little heed... More