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  • The Mahabharata

    A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

    by R. K. Narayan ...
    "Narayan makes this treasury of Indian folklore and mythology readily accessible to the general reader . . . he captures the spirit of the narrative."— Library JournalThe Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that doing so would invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hindus

    An Alternative History

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its historyAn engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds.Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hindu Myths

    A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from destruction, and the mischievous child Krishna, alongside stories of the minor gods, demons, rivers and animals including boars, buffalo, serpents and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • The Rig Veda

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    The earliest of the four Hindu religious scriptures known as the Vedas, and the first extensive composition to survive in any Indo-European language, the Rig Veda (c. 1200-900 BC) is a collection of over 1,000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology, religion and culture. This selection of 108 of the hymns, chosen for their ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Kamasutra

    by Mallanaga Vatsyayana ...
    Translated by Wendy Doniger, Sudhir Kakar ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'When the wheel of sexual ecstasy is in full motion, there is no textbook at all, and no order.' The Kamasutra is the oldest extant Hindu textbook of erotic love. It is about the art of living - about finding a partner, maintaining power in a marriage, committing adultery, living as or with a courtesan, using drugs - and also about the positions in sexual intercourse. It was composed in Sanskrit, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities

    by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty ...
    "A brilliant analysis of the complex role of dreams and dreaming in Indian religion, philosophy, literature, and art. . . . This richly suggestive book challenges many of our fundamental assumptions about ourselves and our world." — New York Times Book ReviewIn Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty, one of the world's great scholars of Indian and world mythology, offers a ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mahabharata

    A Modern Retelling

    by Carole Satyamurti, Vinay Dharwadker ...
    "Astonishing…[Satyamurti’s Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive…as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse." —Vinay DharwadkerOriginally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • Shamanism

    Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

    by Mircea Eliade, Wendy Doniger ...
    Series series
    The foundational work on shamanism now available as a Princeton Classics paperbackShamanism is an essential work on the study of this mysterious and fascinating phenomenon. The founder of the modern study of the history of religion, Mircea Eliade surveys the tradition through two and a half millennia of human history, moving from the shamanic traditions of Siberia and Central Asia—where shamanism ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Pluralism and Democracy in India

    Debating the Hindu Right

    Edited by Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Redeeming the Kamasutra

    by Wendy Doniger ...
    The Kamasutra, composed in the third century CE, is the world's most famous textbook of erotic love. There is nothing remotely like it even today, and for its time it was astonishingly sophisticated. Yet it is all but ignored as a serious work in its country of origin-sometimes taken as a matter of national shame rather than pride - and in the rest of the world it is a source of amused amazement ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Jewels, Jewelry, and Other Shiny Things in the Buddhist Imaginary

    by Vanessa R. Sasson, Casey Collins, Wendy Doniger, Christoph Emmrich, Maria Heim, Ellen Huang, Nancy G. Lin, Richard K. Payne, Andy Rotman, John S. Strong0, Francesca Tarocco1 ...
    Renunciation is a core value in the Buddhist tradition, but Buddhism is not necessarily austere. Jewels—along with heavenly flowers, rays of rainbow light, and dazzling deities—shape the literature and the material reality of the tradition. They decorate temples, fill reliquaries, are used as metaphors, and sprout out of imagined Buddha fields. Moreover, jewels reflect a particular type of ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Freedom Song

    by Amit Chaudhuri ...
    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, a graceful depiction of middle-class Calcutta, seen through the lives of two interlinked families living in the city during the 1990s.Freedom Song is a novel about family life and city life at an uneasy moment in time. Set in Calcutta in 1993, the book begins by introducing us to Khuku, whose husband Shib is a retired executive and whose son ... Read more

    $11.99 USD