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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic

10 best books like The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa): The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic, The Rig Veda, India: A Wounded Civilization, The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir, Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition, Philosophies of India, Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers, Bhagavad Gita and Its Message, The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā

The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic
AuthorR.K. Narayan
ISBN0143039679
The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the story of The Ramayana. Everyone of whatever age,...
The Rig Veda
AuthorWendy Doniger
ISBN0140449892
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 is a collection of over 1000 individual Sanskrit hymns. A work of intricate beauty, it provides a unique insight into early Indian mythology,...
India: A Wounded Civilization
AuthorV.S. Naipaul
ISBN1400030757
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries...
The Kabir Book: Forty-Four of the Ecstatic Poems of Kabir
AuthorKabir
ISBN0807063797

Not all that long ago, in another review, I wrote that I preferred the Rabindranath Tagore translation to this one. I take it back. I was a fool to say so. Revisiting Bly’s translation recently, after more than two decades, I was struck by its clarity, its passion, its vivid and compelling voice.

I...
Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
AuthorDavid R. Kinsley
ISBN0520063392
As a Hindu, I'm always on the lookout for books explaining the complexities of the world's oldest religion. Usually, I've been disappointed, as most of the material I find consist either of children's picture books or essays dry enough to cure insomnia.

But Kinsley's book was a delight, even...
Philosophies of India
AuthorHeinrich Robert Zimmer
ISBN0691017581
The volume is divided into four sections: The introduction places the position of the Buddhist Tantras within Mahayana Buddhism and recalls their early literary history, especially the Guhyasamahatantra; the section also covers Buddhist Genesis and the Tantric tradition. The foundations of...
Story-Wallah: Short Fiction from South Asian Writers
AuthorShyam Selvadurai
ISBN0618576800
Writers of South Asian descent have been garnering more and more success, acclaim, and attention. Story-Wallah gathers the finest South Asian voices in fiction for the first time in a single volume. As Shyam Selvadurai writes in his introduction, "The stories jostle up against each other . . . The effect...
Bhagavad Gita and Its Message
AuthorSri Aurobindo
ISBN0941524787
The wisdom of Sri Aurobindo

The essential message of BhagavadGita according to Sri Aurobindo is the evolutionary philosophy. His principle work, Life Divine differed from the traditional teachings of Hinduism. His message was that liberation from the cycle of life & death is not the...
The Essentials of Hinduism: A Comprehensive Overview of the World's Oldest Religion
AuthorSwami Bhaskarananda
ISBN1884852041
A comprehensive overview of the world's oldest religion. Editorial reviews: "Swami Bhaskarananda has written a compact, yet amazingly comprehensive treatment of the essentials of the Hindu view of life, emphasizing the very things one wishes most to know about when first approaching this complicated,...
The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way: Nāgārjuna's Mūlamadhyamakakārikā
AuthorNāgārjuna
ISBN0195093364
The Buddhist saint Nagarjuna, who lived in South India in approximately the second century CE, is undoubtedly the most important, influential, and widely studied Mahayana Buddhist philosopher. His many works include texts addressed to lay audiences, letters of advice to kings, and a set of penetrating...
An Introduction to Hinduism
AuthorGavin D. Flood
ISBN0521438780
In attempts to figure out my research interests for graduate school I took on this book upon the recommendation of a friend. Nonetheless, it was incredibly insightful with a few chapters needing to be read twice due to the book's dryness and the confusing way it is structured.

I'll begin by noting...
Gem in the Lotus: The Seeding of Indian Civilisation
AuthorAbraham Eraly
This sweeping account of ancient India begins with the Indus Valley civilization, then moves on to the Vedic Aryan culture, the age of religious and philosophical ferment, the tenets of Jainism, the founding and consolidation of Buddhism, and Alexander the Great’s advance into India. It concludes...
Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin: The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin
AuthorIdries Shah
ISBN0863040403
"Nasrudin was in a patent office, trying to patent a magic wand.
""I'm sorry," said the clerk, "but we don't patent impossible inventions.'
So Nasrudin waved his magic wand, and the clerk disappeared."

Whatever could I say that could top that? And it came from a book that turns upside...
Selected Poems
AuthorPercy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN0486275582
This selection of many of Shelley’s best-known and most representative poems will give readers an exciting encounter with one of the most original and stimulating figures in English poetry. Thirty-seven poems of varying lengths are included, among them such well-known verses as "Adonais," "Ode...
The Ramayana: A Modern Retelling of the Great Indian Epic
AuthorVālmīki
ISBN0865476950
The great Indian epic rendered in modern prose

India's most beloved and enduring legend, the Ramayana is widely acknowledged to be one of the world's great literary masterpieces. Still an integral part of India's cultural and religious expression, the Ramayana was originally composed...
God's Little Soldier
AuthorKiran Nagarkar
ISBN8172236336
No matter what garb he dons, or the faith to which he subscribes, Zia believes that he is the chosen one, destined to save the world.

Gifted mathematician, stock market whiz-kid, master guerrilla strategist, Defender of the faith, Zia Khan is a man willing to die for his beliefs, and to destroy...
The Last Jews of Kerala: The 2,000 Year History of India's Forgotten Jewish Community
AuthorEdna Fernandes
ISBN1602392676
Two thousand years ago, trade routes and the fall of Jerusalem took Jewish settlers seeking sanctuary across Europe and Asia. One little-known group settled in Kerala, in tropical southwestern India. Eventually numbering in the thousands, with eight synagogues, they prospered. Some came to possess...
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