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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Exploring the complex and rich tradition of Goddess worship across the Indian subcontinent. She is benevolent and nurturing, yet fierce and terrible, a warrior and a lover. She creates and gives life, is death personified, and the one who grants eternal salvation. She is the ultimate form of reality, the cosmos. As the Saundaryalahiri says, "Only when Shiva joins with you, O Shakti, can he exert his powers as lord, on his own he has not even the...
12) Saraswati's way
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Leaving his village in rural India to find a better education, mathematically gifted, twelve-year-old Akash ends up at the New Delhi train station, where he relies on Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, to guide him as he negotiates life on the street, resists the temptations of easy money, and learns whom he can trust.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Who is that warrior with her shield raised up high? Who is that playing a beautiful song for all to hear? And who is that waving a skull around and sticking her tongue out at everyone? Meet the many faces (and arms) of the mighty Hindu goddesses! Get them together, and anything is possible"--
Author
Pub. Date
[©2022]
Language
English
Description
"You may know Saraswati Devi as the goddess of knowledge, music and arts but did you know that she was clever too? Taken from the pages of Hindu theology, this book draws inspiration from one of the lesser known stories about Saraswati. Discover how the enchanting music she created with her veena saved the day. Conceptualized, written and illustrated by three South Asian women -- all spanning from different countries -- there is no better way to diversify...
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