This volume is a reprint of Vol. XXXII, Part II of transactions of the American Philosophical Society, 1943, and contains the findings of an expedition to Burma and Java undertaken by the author and others. It contains interesting findings and valuable information concerning Pleistocene vertebrates and mollusks as well as the Pleistocene geology of early man in the region.
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The Prasada Mandana is a treatise on Indian architecture, written by the famous engineer (sutradhara) Mandana who was in the employ of Rana Kumbha of Chitor. This book is the English translation of this treatise which is in Sanskrit. Most of the information is culled from the encyclopaedic treatise Aparajitaprccha written by Bhuvanadevacarya. includes copious notes and explanatory figures.
This book is about numbers and so many questions relating to them. What is the nature of numbers? Are they discovered or invented? What is mystical about them? Mathematicians develop a hierarchy of numbers in which mysterious dichotomies appear. For example, the integer 5 is not the same as the rational 5 which in turn is different from the real 5. The author explains how this conceptual maze does not affect the layperson's arithmetic. He also discusses such fascinating topics as primes, perfect numbers, inaccessible numbers and many other unsolved problems relating to the treacherous terrain of infinity, which have baffled mathematicians and philosophers alike.
This illustrated work is the second of the four volumes of publication named Numismatic Art of India: Documentation of Materials. The present colume contains an Album of Masterpieces of Indian Coins. The Album includes photographs of excellent Indian coins of early and mediaeval periods. Each photograph is provided with a caption. The relevant coins are significant for the study of numismatic art of early and mediaeval India. The Album is expected to be of great help to the students of art and coins and also to the interested public.
This is one of the few well documented, well-researched and well-presented book on the history of mining and metallurgy in ancient India based on archaeological, literary and ethnological evidences and on first hand knowledge of various mining sites. This work of about 300 pages consists chapters on mineral ores in ancient India, gold, silver, copper and bronze, iron and zinc. This book also contains 4 maps and 47 illustrations. 
Swami Akhilananda shows us how to reach mental health by applying the classic techniques of Hinduism. He brings together psychology and religion in a most universal manner, showing that personality development and the search for ultimate values are one and the same discipline. The reader, whatever his own beliefs, will be enriched by this new perspective on solving the concrete problems of daily life.
This first volume of the series Unveiling the Esoteric in Buddhism aims to reform many aspects of Buddhist heuristics and gnoseology. In this volume the nature of the karma that governs all phenomenal appearances in the three worlds of the samsara is examined. From the basic premises the thesis proceeds logically to expound the intricacies of the mode of manifestation of all aspects of this basic law.
The author began this book with the intention of writing about the religious history of Islam in India: how it came, how it spread, how it divided and subdivided, how it has been affected by its environment and how it has reacted to modern conditions. However, the vivisection of India in 1947, and the creation of a new nation, Pakistan, necessitated appropriate changes and a new title for the book.
Bharata's Natyasastra, the earliest treatise on dramatics, is, even today, the origin of our dramatic tradition. In the present book , the author has culled all information essential and relevant to drama, eliminating the superfluous. The purpose is to introduce those interested in drama to Bharata's wisdom and to throw light on the state of dramatics in ancient India..