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The Ashes of a God (Indian Stories of F.W.Bain)

The Ashes of a God (Indian Stories of F.W.Bain)

by F . W . Bain (Translator)

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Synopsis

This translation of an original Sanskrit script in the Vedic / Sanskrit religion-philosophic tradition recounts a legend in which Kama (the Hindu Cupid) is reduced to ashes by the opening of the third eye (the eye of wisdom) of Lord Shiwar when he tried to seduce him for his meditation with a vision of female beauty. The story also deals with the dynamic link between love and memory, where love, in remembrance, rises like a living Phoenix from the ashes of oblivion.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 112
 Edition: illustrated edition
 Publisher: Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Published: 01 Mar 2001
ISBN 10: 184293001X
ISBN 13: 9781842930014

Author Bio
F.W. Bain was a Professor of History and Economics at Deccan College in Poona in the early twentieth century. Each of the books in this series is said to be translated from the original manuscripts which were apparently in Sanskrit. Professor Bain's crudite yet sensitive introductions and footnotes indicate his extensive scholarship in both the Easter and Western traditions. Poona then, as now, was a centre of Indian scholarship and one of Professor Bain's pupils at Deccan College was Nathpanti Guru scholar and author Dr Ranado, who said of him he was not merely a tutor but in the fullest sense a professor of literature - praise indeed for a westerner whose rare understanding that in Sanskrit religion, philosophy and literature cannot be separated, ensures that here we are in the hands of a wise and expert storyteller.