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  • Pañcatantra

    The Book of India's Folk Wisdom

    by Patrick Olivelle ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on world literature, and no other collection of stories has become as popular in India itself. A significant influence on the Arabian Nights and the Fables of La Fontaine, the Pancatantra teaches the ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Dharmasutras

    The Law Codes of Ancient India

    by Patrick Olivelle ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a pithy and aphoristic style and representing the culmination of a long tradition of scholarship, the Dharmasutras record intense disputes and divergent views on such subjects as the education of the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ashoka

    Portrait of a Philosopher King

    by Patrick Olivelle ...
    An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian historyThere are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

    Edited by Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Patrick Olivelle ...
    The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more ... Read more

    $159.89 USD

  • Grhastha

    The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture

    Edited by Patrick Olivelle ...
    For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic but hardly any scholarly attention has been paid to the married householder with wife and children, ... Read more

    $122.39 USD

  • The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law

    A New History of Dharmaśāstra

    Edited by Patrick Olivelle, Donald R. Davis ...
    Series series The Oxford History Of Hinduism
    Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmaśāstra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with attention to chronology and historical developments. This study divides the tradition into its two ... Read more

    $136.79 USD

  • Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

    by Patrick Olivelle ...
    Series series SUNY series in Religious Studies
    This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hindu ascetic practices available in English. It is also the clearest.Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text written by Yadava Prakasaa, whose life and activities are of historical interest because, according to tradition, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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    Ashoka

    Portrait of a Philosopher King

    by Patrick Olivelle ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 6 min

    There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose and aspiration, to unify the people of his vastly heterogeneous empire not by a cult of ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • A Dharma Reader

    Classical Indian Law

    by Patrick Olivelle ...
    Series series Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought
    Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend on time and place? And what apparatus did communities develop to ensure justice was done, verdicts ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

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  • The Bhagavad Gita

    by Eknath Easwaran ...
    Series Book 1 - Easwaran's Classics of Indian Spirituality
    The Bhagavad Gita is the best known of all the Indian scriptures, and Eknath Easwaran’s best-selling translation is reliable, readable, and profound.Easwaran's 55-page introduction places the Bhagavad Gita in its historical setting, and brings out the universality and timelessness of its teachings. Chapter introductions clarify key concepts, and notes and a glossary explain Sanskrit terms.Easwaran ... Read more

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  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

    by Patanjali ...
    The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. The sutras begin with the most basic concentration, and then progresses to discipline, manifestation, and finally, emancipation of the transcendental ego. It is now considered one of the most important textual sources for the practice of yoga. This classic work ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Debt

    The First 5,000 Years,Updated and Expanded

    by David Graeber ...
    Now in paperback, the updated and expanded edition: David Graeber’s “fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely” (Financial Times) history of debtHere anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, ... Read more

    $16.99 USD