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Erotic Poems from the Sanskrit. An Anthology.

Parthasarathy (tr.).

Pb., 216 pages. Columbia University Press 2017

Iconography of Jaina Deities. 2 Volumes. Cloth. ca. 22x28 cm

Shantilal Nagar

Volume 1: xxx, pages 1-367 with text and 80 figures. Volume 2: xxii, pages 368-510  with text and 8 figures, bibliography, index, 231 black-and-white plates, 36 colour plates

Madhava Kandali Ramayana. Composed in Assamese by Sage Madhava Kandali, the great son of the soil in the fourteenth century AD. In 2 volumes. Cloth

translated into English by Shanti Lal Nagar

Part 1: Adikanda, Ayodhyakanda, Aranyakanda, and Kiskindhakanda. xvii, 293 pages, index. Part 2: Sundarakanda, Lankakanda, and Uttarakanda. vii, 273 pages, index

Miniature Paintings on The Holy Ramayana. Cloth, ca. 23 x 28 cm

Shantilal Nagar

268 pages, 127 colour plates. 2001

Surya and Sun Cult. (In Indian Art, Culture, Literature and Thought). Cloth. 19x25 cm

by Shanti Lal Nagar

99 black-white photo's on plates, xxiii, 448 pages text and some illustrations, bibliography, index. 1995.

by M. K. V.  Narayan

The Mahabharata

R. K. Narayan. 2001 Paperback, 208 pages, line drawings, 198 x 129 mm

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Buddhism. 3 volumes. Cloth.

Samir Nath

Volume 1: 264 pages. Volume 2: page 265-520. Volume 3: page 521-801 "a splendid work"

Purifying the Earthly Body of God. Religion and Ecology in Hindu India. American edition

edited by Lance E. Nelson

ix, 366 pages, with an index. 1998

Early History of the Vaisnava Faith and Movement in Assam. Sankaradeva and His Times. Cloth. 17x25cm.

Maheswar Neog

xx, 400 pages, fold-out map, bibliography, index

Indian Buddhism. A Survey with Bibliographical Notes. Cloth

Hajime Nakamura

423 pages. 1980, reprint 19489 etc., 2007

Indian Society and the Making of the British Empire. Paperback

C.A. Bayly

230 pages, bibliography, index, 5 maps. 1999

Sikhs of the Punjab. New Cambridge History of India: 2.3. Paperback

J.S. Grewal

264 pages. 1994, 1995

Socio Religious Reform Movements in British India. Paperback

Kenneth W. Jones

244 Pages, with glossary Indian terms, index. 1994, 1999

Rückkehr des Buddha: Chinesische Skulpturen des 6. Jahrhunderts. Der Tempelfund von Qing Zhou. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 2001, im Museum Rietberg, und in der Royal Academy of Arts. 30,5 cm. Gebunden

Herausgegeben von Lukas Nickel

236 Seiten mit zahlreiche, meist farbigen, Abbildungen im Text und auf Tafeln. 2001

Study of Stone Beads in Ancient India. Cloth, 18,5x25cm.

Niharika

304 pages, bibliography, glossary, 20 pages with figures, 11 plates. 1993

On History and Historians of Medieval India. Cloth

Khaliq Ahmad Nizami

267 pages, bibliography and index. 1983. 1 copy in stock without dustcover, reduced price

Royalty in Medieval India. Cloth

Khaliq Ahmad Nizami

228 pages, bibliography and index. Covers the entire spectrum of the life of the Delhi Sultans from the harem to the battlefield

Religion in South Asia. Religious Conversion and Revival Movements in South Asia in Medieval and Modern Times. Cloth

edited by G.A. Oddie

272 pages. Second revised and enlarged edition, 1991

Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts. Paperback

by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty

xviii, 382 pages, 4 leaves of plates. 1982. Examines the conception of the relationship between men and women as expressed in the animal symbols and sexual metaphors of Hindu mythology

Ajanta. Cloth, ca. 27x30cm

Text Amina Okada, Introduction André Bareau, Photographs Jean-Louis Nou

216 pages, bibliography, numerous colour illustrations. 1996. I. Ajanta and Buddhism: 1. General view and plan of the site. II. The Buddhist paintings of Ajanta/Amina Okada...

Grihya Sutras, The. Rules of Vedic Domestic Ceremonies. 2 Volumes. Hardback. Sacred Books of the East volumes 29 and 30

Translated by Hermann Oldenberg

790 pages

Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom.

Olivelle, Patrick

Hardback, 576 pages, 164 x 115 mm. 2006. The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as Aesop's fables.

Life of the Buddha

Ashva-Ghosha, Patrick Olivelle (Tr.)

lvii, 499 p. ; 6.50 H x  1.00 D x  4.50 W inches

Translation, Original Sanskrit in transcription, introduction, notes, list of meters, glossary of names, index

Law Code of Manu. Paperback. A new translation by Patrick Olivelle

xlix, 316 pages. 2004

The "Law Code of Manu" is the most authoritative and best-known legal text of ancient India. A seminal Hindu work, it is important for its classic description of the many social institutions which have come to be identified with Indian society

Upanisads. Paperback

Patrick Olivelle, 2008

English translation of the Upanishads featuring a Guide to Pronunciation, list of names, notes, map, index, etc.

American Collectors of Asian Art. Cloth. 25x33 cm

edited by Pratapaditya Pal

224 pages, with numerous colour and black-white illustrations. 1986

Ladakh. Peaks and Lamas. Cloth

Marco Pallis. 323 pages, with many illustrations, 2 maps. 1998

Medicinal Plants of Himalaya. Hardback. 2 volume set

by Dr. Gyanendra Pandey

Volume 1: 403 pages, 33 black-white illustrations. Select bibliography, indices. Volume 2: xvi, 352 pages. 1995. Price for the 2-volume-set

Malabar and the Portuguese. Paperback. 13,5x21,5cm.

by K.M. Panikkar

xvi, 221 pages. index. first published 1929, 1997

Social and Economic History of Early Deccan: Some Interpretations. Cloth

Parasher-Sen, editor

304 pages, with a bibliography, an index, 15 charts and 6 maps. 1993

Vaisnavism in Indian Arts and Culture. Collected Papers of the University Grants Commision Nat. Seminar on "Impact of Vaisnavism on the Indian Arts". Cloth, 19x24cm

edited by Ratan Parimoo

468 pages text, 67 photographs

Wanderings of a Pilgrim: In search of the picturesque, During four-and-twenty years in the east; with revelations of life in the zezana. 2 Volumes. Cloth

Fanny Parks

Lord Jagannath. His Temple, Cult and Festivals. Cloth, ca. 22 x 28 cm

Himanshu S. Patnaik

196 pages, 28 black-white and colour plates. 1994

Social History of 19th Century Orissa. Cloth

Nihar Ranjan Patnaik

370 pages, with bibliography, glossary, appendix. 1989

bit damaged, reduced price

Art of Nalanda. Development of Buddhist Sculpture AD 600-1200. Cloth, 23x29cm

Debjani Paul

xx, 121 pages with text, bibliography and index, 82 plates

Annals of Mewar. Abridged from Tod's Annals of Rajasthan. Hardback

abridged and edited by C.H. Payne

212 pages, 1 map, reprint 1994

The Śaktas: An Introductory and Comparative Study. Cloth

Ernest A. Payne

153 pages, 6 illustrations, bibliography and index. 2004

Because It Gives Me Peace of Mind": Ritual Fasts in the Religious Lives of Hindu Women. Paperback

by A. M. Pearson. 1996

Indonesian Mahabharata.

Translated from the Original Classical Kawi Text (with English Translation) by Dr. I. Gusti Putu Phalgunadi. Vol.1 Adiparva: The First Book. 306 pages, with an introduction. Vol. 2 Udyogaparva. vi, 345 pages, with an introduction. Vol. 3 Bhismaparva. 283 pages, with an introduction. Vol. 4 Virataparva. The Fourth Book. 197 pages, with an introduction. Vol. 5 Asramavasaparva, Mosalaparva, Prasthanikaparva, Svargarohanaparva. vi, 161 pages. Hardback. Ca. 21.5x28cm

Indonesian Ramayana: The Uttarakanda. Cloth

Translated from the Original Classical Kawi Text (with English Translation) by Dr. I. Gusti Putu Phalgunadi. xviii, 240 pages, with an introduction, 12 colour illustrations, chart of Balinese letters, note on pronounciation. 1999

Veerabrahman, India's Nostradamus Saint.

400 years ago he foretold the British conquest of India, birth of Gandhi, etc.

R.N. Pillai

Hardcover, 117 pages. 1991

Buddhist Psychology. A Modern Perspective. Cloth, ca. 20 x 28 cm

Edwina Pio

196 pages, index, bibliography. 1988

Mathematics in India. American edition. Cloth

Kim Plofker

384 pages, 10 halftones, 40 line illustrations. 2008. Based on extensive research in Sanskrit sources, Mathematics in India chronicles the development of mathematical techniques and texts in South Asia from antiquity to the early modern period. Kim Plofker reexamines the few facts about Indian mathematics that have become common knowledge--such as the Indian origin of Arabic numerals--and she sets them in a larger textual and cultural framework.

Literary Cultures in History. Reconstructions for South Asia. Hardback

by Sheldon Pollock

1108 pages, 2 illustrations, 6 maps. 2003. A comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia, this text contains essays which consider 15 South Asian literary traditions - including Hindi, Indian-English, Persian, Sanskrit, Tibetan and Urdu - in their full historical and cultural variety.

Language of the Gods in the World of Men. Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern India. Paperback.

Sheldon Pollock.

703 pages, 1 photograph, 4 maps. 2006.

In this work of impressive scholarship, Sheldon Pollock explores the remarkable rise and fall of Sanskrit, India's ancient language, as a vehicle of poetry and polity.