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    Vairagyasataka of Bhartrhari: With Hindi and English Translations and Purport by: Sugyan Kumar Mahanty Original price was: ₹520.00.Current price is: ₹468.00.

    “The Vairāgyaśataka of Bhartr̥hari is a part of his collective masterpiece Satakatrayī, the other two being the Nītiśataka and Śr̥ṅgāraśataka. The present volume is based on Kasmiri Śāradā manuscripts and provides translations and purports of each stanza both in Hindi and English.
    This work extols the importance of seclusion, while refuting the merit of addiction, attachment, desire, lust, dissatisfaction and the exclusive control over materialism to attain a peaceful existence. It talks about the futility of desire and condemns infatuation, while highlighting the ignobility of servitude and underscoring the repulsiveness of lasciviousness towards women. It calls for renunciation, detachment from the fruits of action and liberation from sensual objects and desires.
    While the work portrays the growing apathy towards worldly attractions and pleasures, it unveils the secrets of the significance of life, by which one should experience the transcendental reality through spiritualism. It essentially invites and inspires one to attain supreme bliss by renunciation and spiritual pursuit.”

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    Nitisataka of Bhartrhari by: Sugyan Kumar Mahanty Original price was: ₹480.00.Current price is: ₹432.00.

    Bhartrhari’s three unique compositions – Nitisatakam, Srngarasatakam and Vairagyasatakam – have been relevant for the last 2,000 years and above for their exclusively terse and epigrammatic character, and universally applicable teachings. The Nitisataka, although succinct and concise, is pregnant with the perpetual and everlasting doctrines, resulted from diverse experiences of life.
    Although it has hundreds of printed editions available with commentaries and translations published in many parts of the globe, still this edition has been prepared along with recently discovered Kasmiri Sarada text, supplemented by critical notes on variant readings found in a Sarada manuscript, for the very first time in last 400 years, i.e. ever since the printing editions came into existence.
    Most commonly accepted verses of the Nitisataka have been included in this edition, making a total of 111 verses, which is enriched with authentic translation and purports in Hindi and English.

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    Persons, Mind and Value by: Sugyan Kumar Mahanty Original price was: ₹150.00.Current price is: ₹135.00.

    Persons, Mind and Value focuses on the link between persons and values: and as values are linked with the mentality of the subjects, relevant features of mind have been brought to focus.Philosophical accounts of personhood have often been used for building normative ethical theories and persons have usually been thought of as moral agents, responsible for their actions done with freedom. Against the backdrop of this, the authors have attempted to delineate the concept of moral personhood which, they argue, is built on spirituality and moral commitment. Although morality is not entirely a matter of pure rationality and moral agency requires self-transcendence and spirituality, the book nonetheless brings out a stricter sense in which moral personhood applies to beings who are rational moral agents. Persons’ being rational as well as spiritual beings implies that they be moral beings.In course of the defence of such concept of moral personhood, interesting contrast has been made between personhood vis-a-vis (higher) animal consciousness on the one hand and artificial intelligence on the other. And illuminating allusions are made to the possibilities of ‘non-human persons’ and ‘human non-persons’ which inevitably lead to conceiving personhood admitting of degrees or levels in its application to human as well as non-human beings. However a firm defence is given to the theory that moral personhood cannot apply to beings who are not even minimally rational.The book is an excellent exercise in analytic elucidation and will immensely benefit students, researchers and anyone interested in moral philosophy and philosophy of mind.

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    Lilavati Vithi of Ramapanivada by: Sugyan Kumar Mahanty Original price was: ₹650.00.Current price is: ₹585.00.

    The Lilavati, a vithi, is the magnum opus of Ramapanivada, a versatile poet of eighteenth century ce, a resourceful and multitalented writer of almost all the genres of creative compositions, belonged to Kerala, India. The Lilavati is the best of all available specimens of vithi literature in the history of Sanskrit drama. The plot of the Lilavati Vithi is based on the love story between Virapala, the king of Kuntala, and Lilavati, the daughter of the king of Karnata.
    The text of the present volume of Lilavati Vithi is carefully edited and presented with a Sanskrit commentary Praci in the light of Sanskrit dramaturgy as well as Indian rhetorics. The commentary Praci treats to critically evaluate various poetical aspects, like figures in speech and metres. The characteristics of vithi with the suitable examples from the Lilavati, the thirteen numbers of vithyangas, the type of amukha or prastavana are explored in the introduction. It also presents an account of the history of the literature of available and non-available vithi type in its introduction.
    Present edition of Lilavati Vithi along with the Sanskrit commentary Praci and an extensive introduction in English and appendices will interest scholars and students of Indology who are focused on the study of Sanskrit literature. It will benefit the readers interested in classical Sanskrit literature. It will also be a supporting tool for the researchers of the history of classical Sanskrit literature in general and vithi literature in particular.

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