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 6 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Siva Purana
Translated by A Board of Scholars
Edited by Prof.J.L.Shastri
Published by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi - 1970
VOLUME 1

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Page from a Dispersed Shiva Mahatmya
ca. 1710
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 2 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book :
The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age
With introduction and notes.
By Frederick Eden Pargiter
Published by Humphrey Milfortd at The Oxford University Press - 1913

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 1 Aug 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Sahyadri-Khanda of The Skanda Purana
A Mythological, Historical, and Geographical Account of Western India
First Edition of the Sanskrit Text with Various Readings
By J. Gerson Da Cunha
Published in Thacker, Vining & Co., Bombay - 1877
In Sanskrit

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 22 May 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Dasakumaracharitam of Dandin
Sanskrit text with English Notes
By M. R. Kale
Published by Gopal Narayan & Co., Bombay -1925

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 22 May 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Dasakumaracaritam - die Abenteuer der zehn Prinzen
By Johann Jakob Meyer
Published by Lotus Verlag, Leipzig - 1902
In German

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 22 May 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Hindoo tales or The adventures of Ten Princes.
Freely translated from the Sanscrit of the DASAKUMARCHARITAM
by Dandin, 7th century.
By Philip Whittington Jacob (1805-1889)
Published by Strahan & Co., London - 1873

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 11 May 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Folklore of the Konkan
By Arthur Mason Tippetts Jackson and Reginald Edward Enthoven
Published by British India Press, Bombay - 1915

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View in the Conkan - 1833.

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 4 Apr 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
The Ramayana - Sundara Kandam
By Manmatha Nath Dutt
Published by Girish Chandra Chakravarti, Calcutta - 1892

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Hanuman visits Sita in Lanka, Folio from a Ramayana
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 18 Feb 2015 Rare Paintings
James HUNTER
North Entrance of Tippoos Palace at Bangalore.

James Hunter, who served in India as a Lieutentant in the Royal Artillery, is best known for his Picturesque Scenery in the Kingdom of Mysore, 1805.

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 12 Feb 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
A Literary History of India
By Robert Watson Frazer (1854-1921)
Published by T. Fisher Unwin, London - 1907

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 20 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Womens Eyes
Verses of Bhartrihari
By Arthur William Ryder
Published by A.M.Robertson, San Francisco - 1910

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 20 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
BHARTRIHARI - Niti and Vairagya Shatakas
By K.M Joglekar
Published by Oriental Publishing Co., Bombay - 1911

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 9 Jan 2015 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Bhoja Charitram: An original historical drama in Tamil
By T.S.Narayana Sastri
Printed by Thompson & Co., Madras - 1916

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 14 Dec 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Nala and Damayanti - A love-tale of East India
Done out of the Sanskrit of the Mahābhārata, the oldest epic poem of India
By Adelaide Rudolph
Published by The Kirgate Press in Canton, Pennsylvania - 1902

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 12 Jul 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Songs of Kabir
Translated by Rabindranath Tagore
Published by The Macmillan Company, New York - 1915

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 29 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Naradiya Dharmasastra of the Institutes of Narada
Translated for the first time from unpublished Sanskrit original
By Dr. Julius Jolly
Published by Trubner & Co, London - 1876

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 14 Jun 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
Studies in Ancient Hindu Polity (Based on the Arthaṡâstra of Kautilya)
By Narendranath Nath Law
With an introductory essay on the age and authenticity of the Arthasastra of Kautilya by Prof. Radhakumud Mookerji
Published by Longmans, Green, and Co., London - 1914

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 24 May 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
KINGS OF KASHMIRA
Being a translation of the Sanskrita work Rajataranggini of Kalhana Pandita
By Jogesh Chunder Dutt
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1879
VOLUME 3

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 24 May 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
KINGS OF KASHMIRA
Being a translation of the Sanskrita work Rajataranggini of Kalhana Pandita
By Jogesh Chunder Dutt
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1879
VOLUME 2

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 23 May 2014 Rare BOOKS
Digital Rare Book:
KINGS OF KASHMIRA
Being a translation of the Sanskrita work Rajataranggini of Kalhana Pandita
By Jogesh Chunder Dutt
Published by Trubner & Co., London - 1879
VOLUME 1

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