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The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Book 1 Adi Parva


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English | ISBN: 153535402X | 2016 | 524 pages | EPUB | 1072 KB
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas.

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Attending Krishna’s Image Chaitanya Vaishnava Murti-seva as Devotional Truth


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English | 2006 | pages: 226 | ISBN: 0415383943, 0415864585 | EPUB | 4,0 mb
There is a steady and growing scholarly, as well as popular interest in Hindu religion – especially devotional (bhakti) traditions as forms of spiritual practice and expressions of divine embodiment. Associated with this is the attention to sacred images and their worship.

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Krishna’s Lineage The Harivamsha of Vyasa’s Mahabharata


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English | ISBN: 0190279176 | 2019 | 462 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha’s main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu’s avatar Krishna Vasudeva, who has been a comparatively minor character in the previous parts of the Mahabharata, despite having taken centre stage in the Bhagavad Gita.

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The Bhagavad-Gita Krishna’s Counsel in Time of War (2024)


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English | 2004 | pages: 176 | ISBN: 0553213652, 0231064683 | PDF | 0,6 mb
The Bhagavad-Gita has been an essential text of Hindu culture in India since the time of its composition in the first century A.D. One of the great classics of world literature, it has inspired such diverse thinkers as Henry David Thoreau, Mahatma Gandhi, and T.S. Eliot; most recently, it formed the core of Peter Brook’s celebrated production of the Mahabharata.

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