Kavitawali of Goswami Tulsidas

Kavitawali of Goswami Tulsidas
Author: Sri Ajai Kumar Chhawchharia
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2016-01-24
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ISBN: 9781523675340

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'Kavitawali' is the legendary story of Lord Ram that was written by saint-poet Goswami Tulsidas as part of his Trilogy on Lord Ram's life and time-popularly known as 'Ramayan'. The other two books in this Trilogy are Geetawali and the epic Ram Charit Manas. Each of the three books of the Trilogy is a masterpiece in itself. The other two books would also be made available by this author as soon as they are ready for publication. 'Kavitawali' narrates the story of Lord Ram in a poetic style that is called 'Kavitta' in Hindi. It is basically fine and excellent poetry in one of its best forms, being written as it is in Tulsidas' unique style of narration that is at once lucid, enchanting and captivating for the mind. He has employed all the skills and mastery of words that he is so famous for. The probable reason of his writing Kavitawali (and for that matter Geetawali as well, besides, of course, the epic Ram Charit Manas) is perhaps he wished to narrate the excellent story of Lord Ram in from different angles and employing different styles of poetic composition so that the story as a whole becomes exceedingly enchanting, fascinating and beautiful as it could now be read and recited in various styles and tones to suit every mood and liking of the reader. Further, it helped Tulsidas to describe many aspects of the story which could not be possibly highlighted sufficiently in one book alone due to various restrictions-such as for instance the restrictions imposed by the style selected for the composition, or the flow of the narration, or the limitations of pages-could be overcome in the next book. So, Kavitawali helped Tulsidas to express himself better and more articulately because now he could focus his attention more to highlight in very expressive terms certain parts or aspects of the epic story as well as to fill in certain gaps that he couldn't probably do in the other two books of the Trilogy. The 'KINDLE' version of this book is available at www.amazon.com/kdp

A Genealogy of Devotion

A Genealogy of Devotion
Author: Patton E. Burchett
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0231548834

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In this book, Patton E. Burchett offers a path-breaking genealogical study of devotional (bhakti) Hinduism that traces its understudied historical relationships with tantra, yoga, and Sufism. Beginning in India’s early medieval “Tantric Age” and reaching to the present day, Burchett focuses his analysis on the crucial shifts of the early modern period, when the rise of bhakti communities in North India transformed the religious landscape in ways that would profoundly affect the shape of modern-day Hinduism. A Genealogy of Devotion illuminates the complex historical factors at play in the growth of bhakti in Sultanate and Mughal India through its pivotal interactions with Indic and Persianate traditions of asceticism, monasticism, politics, and literature. Shedding new light on the importance of Persian culture and popular Sufism in the history of devotional Hinduism, Burchett’s work explores the cultural encounters that reshaped early modern North Indian communities. Focusing on the Rāmānandī bhakti community and the tantric Nāth yogīs, Burchett describes the emergence of a new and Sufi-inflected devotional sensibility—an ethical, emotional, and aesthetic disposition—that was often critical of tantric and yogic religiosity. Early modern North Indian devotional critiques of tantric religiosity, he shows, prefigured colonial-era Orientalist depictions of bhakti as “religion” and tantra as “magic.” Providing a broad historical view of bhakti, tantra, and yoga while simultaneously challenging dominant scholarly conceptions of them, A Genealogy of Devotion offers a bold new narrative of the history of religion in India.

DŌHĀVALĪ of Goswami Tulsidas

DŌHĀVALĪ of Goswami Tulsidas
Author: Ajai Chhawchharia
Publisher:
Total Pages: 745
Release: 2018-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781723932779

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This Book is a full English exposition of 'Dohawali', an excellent and fascinating Book of wonderful 573 two-line verses called 'Dohas' that had been composed by the renowned 16th century legendary Indian saint-poet Goswami Tulsidas. The Book has the entire Original Text of 'Dohawali' along with its Roman Transliteration that is followed by verse-by-verse English rendering, and is augmented by notes and further explanations in great detail, making it quite exhaustive. Since these 'Dohas' are stand-alone verses, each distinct from the other and covering between themselves a wide variety of topics, two special indices are provided that help the reader, one at the beginning and one at the end. The first index lists the Dohas according to their topics, and the second index according to selected keywords. This book also includes a life-sketch of Tulsidas along with a list of all the books he had written and a brief note about each of them.The 'Dohas' of DOHAWALI are a priceless and glorious collection of pearls of wisdom and gems of priceless advice that this blessed saint Tulsidas offers to us as a guide to answer so many questions that arise in our minds in our daily lives and during the course of our journey in this world for which we seek a practical answer. The 'Dohas' show us how Tulsidas closely observed the world and deductions that he arrived at. They are devotional as well as secular in nature, covering a wide variety of subjects from the mundane and temporal world to the spiritual and the ethereal world. A lot many of these verses are also included in Tulsidas' famous epic known as 'Ram Charit Manas' which is a narration of the story of Lord Ram that is popularly known as the Ramayana.The 'KINDLE' version of this book is available at www.amazon.com