Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists
 Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists title page (1914 edition) | |
| Author | Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy |
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| Publisher | London : George G. Harrap & Co.,. |
Published in English | 1913 |
Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1913) is a book written by Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.[1]
Background
Responding to the call of Swami Vivekananda, Sister Nivedita travelled to India in 1898. Josephine MacLeod, a friend and devotee of Swami Vivekananda asked him how best she could help him and got the reply to "Love India".[2] Nivedita wrote multiple books on Indian history, culture, Vedic religion, Hinduism, Buddhism etc.
Myths
In this book the author included and narrated some myths and stories from ancient Hindu and Buddhist literature. The book includes a good number of water colour illustrations which were created under the supervision of Abanindranath Tagore. Tagore himself drew some of the pictures in the book.[3]
The myths and stories of this book include–
- Mythology of the Indo-Aryan Race
- Ramayana
- Mahabharata
- Krishna
- Buddha
- Shiva
- Other stories from Puranas, epics and Vedas
References
- ^ Adwaita P. Ganguly (January 1, 1990). India, Mystic, Complex, and Real: A Detailed Study of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, His Treatment of India's Landscape, History, Social Anthropology, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. VRC Publications. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-81-208-0628-3. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ^ G. S Banhatti (January 1, 1995). Life And Philosophy Of Swami Vivekananda. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-81-7156-291-6. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- ^ Ananda K. Coomaraswamy; Nivedita Sister Nivedita (March 1, 2003). Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Kessinger Publishing. p. Preface. ISBN 978-0-7661-4515-3. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
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