Shilappadikaram

Author : Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0811200019

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Shilappadikaram by Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ Pdf

The peerless young Kovalan leaves his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan Madhavi, and though he returns to her, he still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. The Shilappadikaram has been called an epic and even a novel, but it is also a book of general education. Adigal packed his story with information: history merging into myth, religious rites, caste customs, military lore, descriptions of city and country life. And four Cantos are little anthologies of the poetry of the period (seashore and mountain songs, hunters and milkmaid s song). Thus the story gives us a vivid picture of early Indian life in all its aspects.

Author : Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Epic poetry, Tamil
ISBN : 0143031961

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The Cilappatikāram by Iḷaṅkōvaṭikaḷ Pdf

Men And Women Of Maturai Of The Four Temples! I Curse This City. Its King Erred In Killing The Man I Loved One Of The World'S Masterpieces, The Cilappatikaram (5Th Century Ce) By Ilanko Atikal Is India'S Finest Epic In A Language Other Than Sanskrit. It Spells Out In Unforgettable Verse The Problems That Humanity Has Been Wrestling With For A Long Time: Love, War, Evil, Fate And Death. The Tale Of An Anklet Is The Love Story Of Kovalan And Kannaki. Originating In Tamil Mythology, The Compelling Tale Of Kannaki Her Love, Her Feats And Triumphs, And Her Ultimate Transformation To Goddess Follows The Conventions Of Tamil Poetry And Is Told In Three Phases: The Erotic, The Heroic And The Mythic. This Epic Ranks With The Ramayana And The Mahabharata As One Of The Great Classics Of Indian Literature And Is Presented For The First Time In A Landmark English Verse Translation By The Eminent Poet R. Parthasarathy, Making It Accessible To A Wider Audience. Winner Of The 1995 Sahitya Akademi Prize For Translation (English), The 1994 Pen/ Book-Of-The-Month Club Translation Citation Of The Pen American Centre, And The 1996 Association For Asian Studies A.K. Ramanujan Book Prize For Translation.

Author : Sita Anantha Raman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313014406

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Women in India by Sita Anantha Raman Pdf

Are Indian women powerful mother goddesses, or domestic handmaidens trailing behind men in literacy, wages, opportunities, and rights? Have they been agents of their own destinies, or voiceless victims of patriarchy? Behind these colorful over-simplifications lies the reality of many feminine personas belonging to various classes, ethnicities, religions, and castes. This two-volume set looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times, revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Raman's work is a reflection on the various ways in which women in a non-Western culture have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda. Are Indian women powerful mother goddesses, or domestic handmaidens trailing behind men in literacy, wages, opportunities, and rights? Have they been agents of their own destinies, or voiceless victims of patriarchy? Behind these coloful over-simplifications lies the reality of many feminine personas belonging to various classes, ethnicities, religions, and castes. This two-volume set looks at Indian history from ancient to modern times, revealing precisely why ideas of gender rights were not static across eras or regions. Raman's work is a reflection on the various ways in which women in a non-western culture have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda. Individual chapters highlight the enduring legacies of many important male and female figures, illustrating how each played a key role in modifying the substance of women's lives. Political movements are examined as well, such as the nationalist reform movement of 1947 in which the ideal of Indian womanhood became central to the nation and the push for independence. Also included is a survey of women in contemporary India and the role they played in the resurgence of militant Hindu nationalism. Aside from being an engaging and readable narrative of Indian history, this set integrates women's issues, roles, and achievements into the general study of the times, providing a clear presentation of the social, cultural, religious, political, and economic realities that have helped shape the identity of Indian women.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015072474441

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Indian Review of Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alain Daniélou
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0811210146

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The Way to the Labyrinth by Alain Daniélou Pdf

An authority on Hinduism and renowned for his directorship of the Institute of Comparative Music Studies in Berlin and Venice, Alain Daniélou is also an accomplished pianist, dancer, player of the Indian vînâ, painter, linguist and translator, photographer, and world traveler. To these attainments he has added The Way to the Labyrinth--as vivid, uninhibited, and wide-ranging a memoir as one is ever likely to encounter, now translated and published in English for the first time. Born of a haute-bourgeoise French family--his mother an ardent Catholic, his father an anticlerical leftwing politician, his older brother a cardinal--Daniélou spent a solitary childhood. Escaping from his family milieu, he went to Paris, where he fell in with avant-garde, bohemian, sexually liberated circles, among whose luminaries were Cocteau, Diaghilev, Max Jacob, and Maurice Sachs. But however fervently he plunged into various activities, he felt some other destiny awaited him. After a number of journeys, some of them highly adventurous, he found his real home in India. He spent twenty years there, fifteen of them in Benares on the banks of the Ganges. There he immersed himself in the study of Sanskrit, Hindu philosophy, music, and the art of the ancient temples of Northern India, and converted to the Hindu religion. But times changed, and soon after India gained its independence, he returned to live again in Europe and devoted much of his great energy to the encouragement of traditional musics from around the world.

Author : Judy Van Zile
Publisher : Theodore Front Music
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0913360066

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Dance in India by Judy Van Zile Pdf

Author : LALITHA RAGHUPATHI
Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1971-04-01
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9788184820171

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KANNAGI by LALITHA RAGHUPATHI Pdf

Life is unfair: the virtuous Kannagi deserves a loving husband, but selfish beauties and foolish kings combine to rob her of happiness. Her patience snaps, eventually. Pure in her love, this gentle woman is transformed into an avenging angel, raining death and doom on all her foes, until the gods are forced to intervene. Ilango Adigal's Tamil classic, Shilappadikaram presents life with all its flaws but also with hope.

Author : Nathan Katz,Ellen S. Goldberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Cochin (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015029549196

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The Last Jews of Cochin by Nathan Katz,Ellen S. Goldberg Pdf

For two thousand years, a small colony of Jews in Cochin, South India, enjoyed security and prosperity, fully accepted by their Hindu, Muslim, and Christian neighbors. In this most exotic corner of the Diaspora, Jews flourished in the spice trade, agriculture, the professions, government, and military service. India's tolerant, nurturing atmosphere produced a Jewish prime minister to a Hindu maharaja; an autonomous Jewish principality; Hebrew and Malayalam-language poets; powerful, well-educated women; and Qabbalists revered by Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and Jews alike. Cochin's Jews were so well-integrated into Hindu society that they evolved an identity which was both fully Indian and fully Jewish. This book analyzes the strategies by which this dual identity was established. The Cochin Jews have narrated a historical legend which emphasizes their longstanding residence in India, the site of Jewish autonomy under Hindu patronage, and their attestable origin in ancient Israel, the center of the Jewish universe. Although the Cochin Jews remained faithful to Jewish law and custom, Hindu symbols of nobility and purity were adopted into their religious observances, resulting in some of the most exotic religious practices in the Jewish world. The Jews of Cochin mirrored Hindu social structure and became a caste, well-positioned in India's hierarchy. Yet in emulating caste behavior, Jews came to discriminate against one another, in a breach of Jewish law, giving rise to a controversy which lasted five hundred years. Despite millennia of security, when their two beloved homelands, India and Israel, attained independence in the late 1940s, virtually all of the Jews living in Cochin opted for the more precarious life in Israel. This book concludes with an exploration of their reasons for leaving India and an appraisal of their adaptation to Israeli life.

Author : John B. Alphonso-Karkala
Publisher : Bombay : Nirmala Sadanand Publishers
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Comparative literature
ISBN : UOM:39015053236694

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Comparative World Literature by John B. Alphonso-Karkala Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015017548721

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Mãrg by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ilango Adigal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9383064196

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Shilappadikaram by Ilango Adigal Pdf

Shilappadikaram or the Ankle Bracelet is one of the five major epics of Tamil literature. It was composed as a verse romance in Tamil by Ilango Adigal, a Jain prince who lived in the second century ad and was one of the most renowned classical poets of ancient India. Shilappadikaram is a tale of wonders and misfortunes, of hapless mortals and capricious deities, of magic and heroism in a bright but also cruel world in which the law of karma rules and where 'actions committed in past lives must always bear fruit'. Thus the peerless young Kovalan will leave his loyal wife Kannaki for the courtesan Madhavi and though he returns to her, still meets his death because of her ill-omened ankle bracelet. It has been called an epic and even a novel, but it is also a book of general education. Ilango packed his story with information: history merging into myth, religious rites, caste customs, military lore, descriptions of city or country life. And four cantos are little anthologies of the poetry of the period (seashore and mountain songs, hunters' and milkmaids' songs), thereby giving us a vivid picture of early Indian life in all its aspects.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Indic literature
ISBN : UOM:39015068843997

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Indian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351188148

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The Penguin Book of Classical Indian Love Stories and Lyrics by Ruskin Bond Pdf

A compilation of love stories and poems from the classical literature and folklore of India Set in regions of great natural beauty where Kamadeva, the god of love, picks his victims with consummate ease, these stories and lyrics celebrate the myriad aspects of love. In addition to relatively well-known works like Kalidasa's Meghadutam and Prince Ilango Adigal's Shilappadikaram, the collection features lesser-known writers of ancient India like Damodaragupta (eighth century AD), whose 'Loves of Haralata and Dundarasena' is about a high-born man's doomed affair with a courtesan; Janna (twelfth century), whose Tale of the Glory-Bearer is extracted here for the story of a queen who betrays her handsome husband for a mahout, reputed to be the ugliest man in the kingdom; and the Sanskrit poets Amaru and Mayaru (seventh century), whose lyrics display an astonishing perspective on the tenderness, the fierce passion and the playful savagery of physical love. Also featured are charming stories of Hindu gods and goddesses in love, and nineteenth-century retellings of folk tales from different regions of the country like Kashmir, Punjab, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. Both passionate and sensuous in its content, this book is sure to appeal to the romantic in all of us.

Author : Lakshmi Holmstrom
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8125010130

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Maṇimēkalai by Lakshmi Holmstrom Pdf

This book is a rendering in English of the Tamil epics Silappadikaram and Manimekalai written by renowned Tamil poets. Silappadikaram is the story of Kovalan and Kannagi and of how Kannagi avenges the wrong done to her husband. Manimekalai is meant to be a sequel to Silappadikaram, being the story of Kovalan s daughter s renunciation. There are strong spiritual undertones in the story that give an insight into the religious influence of those times. The illustrations are by A V Illango who is a well-known name in the Indian art scene. His areas of interest are Tamil folklore and the mythology and temple architecture of Tamil Nadu.

Author : Utkarsh Patel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Indic fiction (English)
ISBN : 938550911X

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Kannaki's Anklet by Utkarsh Patel Pdf