“rhys davids”

The present book being an English translation of a German book entitled Der Saiva Siddhanta by H.W. Schomerus gives a full and documented account of this theistic movement then as now little known in the West. The book quickly became and still is the major reference work in this field in any Europea... More

This book is not the story of creation, nor its a description of God Almighty; It is about an experience of love, devotion and sheer joy with the incarnation of the all pervading power of Divine Love, Shri Adi Shakti Shri Mataji Nirmala Devi. No mortal can possibly know Her multi-dimensional for... More

Contents : Chapter-1: How and When we came to Know Earliest documentaries reference to the Buddha- Modern Interest in Ceylon- Treaty of Amiens- R C Childers and T W Rhys Davids- Pali- J Prinsep and G Turnour- Asokan Inscriptions- Buddhist origins, Indian- Palm-leaf MSS. of Ceylon- Pali editions ... More

The Digha Nikaya or "the collection of long doctrinary lectures" of the Buddha is one of the five Nikayas or collections belonging to the Suttapitaka or "the basket of (Buddha`s) discourses" which is one of the three majorr collections of Pali Buddhist texts, the other two being Vinayapitaka and Abh... More

The Digha Nikaya or "the collection of long doctrinary lectures" of the Buddha is one of the five Nikayas or collections belonging to the Suttapitaka or "the basket of (Buddha`s) discourses" which is one of the three majorr collections of Pali Buddhist texts, the other two being Vinayapitaka and Abh... More

This is a collection of upwards of 550 folk-lore which forms part of the Budhist canonical scriptures. The tales are in prose, each explaining a much more ancient poem of two or more lines. The allusions in the verses cannot be understood without the explantion given in the prose. Contents : Editori... More

In his monumental research in ancient sanskrit literature the author has restored gaps in lexicons and removed doubts in the later sanskrit works about the identity of a very large number of birds of the Indian sub-continent. The ancient sages of India were great lovers of nature with keen powers of... More