Author : Vivek Sharma
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 38,63 MB
Release : 2016-02-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781523809554
A story set in the 18th Century about a diamond that is stolen from a Hindu temple in South India. The diamond is cursed and journeys across the globe. A temple priest is determined to bring back the diamond to the temple.
Author : Nanditha Kirshna
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 43,85 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8184758650
Vishnu, the Supreme Being, is the preserver, the protector of the good and the guardian of dharma. Seated on Adi Shesha, the many-hooded serpent, in the primeval waters, he watches over his devotees and rewards the pious. And whenever dharma is in danger, he incarnates himself on earth to rid it of evil. Beginning with an investigation of the possible non-Vedic, Dravidian origins of Vishnu, this book describes his form, aspects and attributes, and his avatars or incarnations: Matsya, the fish; Kurma, the tortoise; Varaha, the boar; Narasimha, the man-lion; Vamana, the dwarf; Parashurama; Rama; Krishna; and Kalki, the final destroyer. Combining the skill of a storyteller with the insight of a scholar, Nanditha Krishna has brought to glorious life perhaps the most powerful and revered god in the Hindu pantheon.
Author : Tamili
Publisher : Notion Press
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1649837593
Two sisters get sucked into a pendant and find themselves in a whole new world! There, they are forced to go on breathtaking adventures to redeem magical items in order to save the world and their skulls! Mysteries and puzzles are one thing while life threatening and magical adventures are another! Magical powers!? Talking animals!? Ice breathing dragons!?Could their lives get any more mystical!? And that's not all, they are in for the biggest twists of their lives! So, will they save the world? Will they make it?
Author : Manil Suri
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408833255
An enthralling virtuoso debut that eloquently captures the loves and losses of a dying man 'All the elements of great storytelling are here, the mystic transports of Ben Okri with the intimate charm of Arundhati Roy ... enchanting' Sunday Tribune 'Beautifully captures with great tenderness and depth the eternal war between duty and desire. This is a love letter to Bombay and its people' Sunday Express Vishnu, the odd-job man in a Bombay apartment block, lies dying on the staircase landing. Around him the lives of the apartment dwellers unfold - the warring housewives on the first floor, the lovesick teenagers on the second, and the widower, alone and quietly grieving at the top of the building. In a fevered state Vishnu looks back on his love affair with the seductive Padmini and comedy becomes tragedy as his life draws to a close.
Author : Piyusha Vir
Publisher : Readomania
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release :
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Did you know that each avatar of Vishnu arrived with a specific purpose? Time and again, Vishnu has manifested in different forms to fulfil his role as a ‘protector’ of the world. Among the long list of 24 avatars, ten avatars have captured our imagination for centuries together—matsya, Kurma, Varaha, Narasimha, Vamana, Parshuram, Rama, Krishna, Buddha, and Kalki. But how exactly did these avatars impact the society? And how do they link to the Charles Darwin theory of evolution? While each avatar has its own set of legends that extoll their characteristics and deeds, the stories behind them are just as interesting and informative. Presented in a contemporary and unbiased perspective, these stories of the ten avatars of Vishnu are an attempt to make mythology more believable and relevant to the world that we live in today.
Author : Kevin Missal
Publisher : Fingerprint! Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,29 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Fantasy fiction, Indic (English)
ISBN : 9788193503300
A work of fiction that takes inspiration from the life of Kalki, the idea of Kaliyug and other Mahabharata and Ramayan references.
Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher : Westland
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 33,20 MB
Release : 2023-08-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9395073187
About the Book EXAMINING THE DIFFERENT MYTHS AND RITUALS ABOUT LORD VISHNU AND HIS AVATARS, THIS BOOK UNCOVERS THE ANCIENT WISDOM INHERITED OVER GENERATIONS WHICH STILL HOLD RELEVANCE TODAY. For Hindus, Vishnu is God who inspires man to discover humanity by engaging with the world. Artists have visualized him with as curly-haired, dark complexioned man with a smile on his lips and a sparkle in his eyes. Draped in yellow silk, garlanded with forest flowers, bedecked with dolphin-shaped earrings, anointed with sandal paste, he reclines on a thousand-hooded serpent that floats on the ocean of milk and rides a golden hawk bearing in his arms a conch-shell, a wheel, a mace and a lotus. Poets say that when he is awake, the world takes shape; when he is asleep, the world ceases to be. Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth, follows him wherever he goes. To him is made offerings of rich creamy butter. Sometimes, the upright Ram, he is worshipped across India as Balaji, Shreenathji, Jagannath, Ranganath and Badrinath. Locked in the stories, symbols and rituals of Vishnu is the wisdom of the ancestors, transmitted over hundreds of years. This book attempts to unlock seven secrets that are relevant even in modern times.
Author : George Sylvester Viereck
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1434483525
"It is a remarkably interesting idea to present the pageant of the world as it unfolded before the yes of the same man during two thousand years. Also, to keep him a young man instead of a doddering gray-beard. It is like reading a series of entrancing short stories with the added interest of logical sequence. Your erudition is amazing, and it is presented in a manner that lures one on and on, as well as inducing the pleasant belief that one is learning something really worth while." -- Gertrude Atherton
Author : Lakshman Ramchandra Vaidya
Publisher :
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 48,28 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN :
Author : Monier Monier-Williams
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 26,60 MB
Release : 2011-07-30
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9788120831056
This new edition includes numerous printed Sanskrit texts and works and three Indian journeys the author had undertaken. All the words are arranged etymologically and philologically with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages.
