Book Description
The lives of two great men of the time are here presented, in two separate novels, by two authors. The first one is Zahir-ud-din Mahomed, commonly called Babar or Babur, Emperor of India, the first of the dynasty of the Great Moghuls. He was a poet, painter, soldier, athlete, gentleman, musician, beggar and King. He lived the most adventurous life a man ever lived, in the end of the fifteenth, the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; and he kept a record of it. Babar brought with him into India his own religion, the Islam. He was very powerful and profoundly soulful. The Crystal Bowl of Life is the promise of the Fullness of Life, of love, joy, and happiness, and of sorrow and death … The second great man of this book is St. Francis Xavier, who was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, commonly called Jesuits. He was known as the ‘Apostle of the Indies’ as he was ordered by the King of Portugal, Joam III, to restore Christianity among the Portuguese settlers there. He achieved much more than that … Two civilisations introduce themselves almost at the same time into India. It is exciting to discover in what fashion and to what purpose …
