MYTHS OF THE HINDUS AND BUDDHISTS

PUBLISHER NAME– GEORGE G HARRAP & CO

The book is in a calf leather binding with Lord Ganesh embossed on the front and gilt titles to spine. It has 32 very fine colour plates including a frontispiece, all the plates by Indian artists such as Abanindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, K Venkatappa, Surendra Nath Kar, Kshitindra Nath Mazumdar and Asit Kumar Haldar all working under Tagore; finely printed with captioned tissue guards for plates. This edition is Limited to 75 copies of which this is No.50 in a very fine condition.

A detailed work regarding the myths and legends of Hinduism and Buddhism. Stories included are, Ramayana, the Mahabharata, Krishna, Buddha, and Shiva, accompanied by extraordinary colour plates. Sister Nivedita, otherwise known as Margaret Elizabeth Noble, was a disciple of the Swami Vivekananda. Growing up in a deeply Christian family, Margaret began to doubt her faith, until meeting Swami Vivekananda and establishing her Hindu faith. Margaret then spent the rest of her life living and travelling around India. Along her travels, she opened a girls’ school in Bagbazar, Calcutta, for girls who were deprived of a basic education. Additionally written by AnandaCoomaraswamy, the Ceylonese metaphysician and philosopher of Indian art.

 The project was begun by Sister Nivedita, a Scots-Irish convert to Hinduism and a disciple of Swami Vivekananda, who died in 1911 before completion. Coomaraswamy completed the remaining two thirds of the work according to Nivedita’s aims and wishes.

YEAR- 1913

SIZE- 9.5 x 6.5 in.

 EXPORTABLE- No

 CODE NO- BK31

(Plastic added for protection which is removable)