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Marathi: Dharma Artha Kama Moksha
Translation of Dharma Artha Kama Moksha : 40 Insights for Happiness Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these…
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Marathi: Pilgrim Nation
Translation of Pilgrim Nation: The Making of Bharatvarsh राष्ट्रवादी आणि देशभक्त यांच्याही पूर्वीच्या, वसाहतवादी आणि घुसखोर यांच्याही पूर्वीच्या, सम्राट आणि राजे यांच्याही पूर्वीच्या अशा भारताचे ‘वस्त्र’ तीर्थयात्रेच्या मार्गरूपी धाग्यांनी विणले गेले होते. आत्मज्ञानाच्या शोधार्थ बाहेर पडलेले साधक आणि ऋषिमुनी उत्तर-दक्षिण, पूर्व-पश्चिम असे पर्वत ओलांडून, नद्यांच्या काठाकाठाने कृत्रिम सीमांकडे दुर्लक्ष करत देवाच्या शोधार्थ फिरायचे. विख्यात पौराणिक-कथाकार…
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Marathi: How to Become Rich
Translated version of How to Become Rich: 12 Lessons I Learnt from Vedic and Puranic Stories Lakshmi is worshipped as the goddess of wealth. Her arrival is considered auspicious, while her departure is bad and inauspicious. In temples, gods are bedecked with jewels; during festivals, our houses are decorated with flowers, lamps and lakshmi’s footprints.…
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Marathi: Shyam
Translated version of Shyam: An Illustrated Retelling of the Bhagavata भागवत म्हणजे कृष्णकथा. कृष्णाच्या काळ्यासावळ्या वर्णामध्ये ज्यांना सौंदर्य, चातुर्य आणि प्रेम दिसतं त्यांच्यासाठी तो श्याम आहे. श्याम प्रेम आणि कर्तव्य यात संतुलन साधणारा कर्तव्यदक्ष प्रेमी आहे. या पुस्तकात देवदत्त पट्टनायकांनी श्रीकृष्णाचं बहुआयामी आणि काहीसं गूढ व अतिशय सुंदर रीतीनं उलगडून दाखवलं आहे. या पुस्तकात…
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Marathi: My Hanuman Chalisa
Translated version of My Hanuman Chalisa Every time we experience negativity in the world and within ourselves, every time we encounter jealousy, rage and frustration, manifesting as violation and violence, we hear, or read, the Hanuman Chalisa. Composed over four hundred years ago by Tulsidas, its simple words in Awadhi, a dialect of Hindi and…
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Marathi: The Pregnant King
Translated version of The Pregnant King महाभारतात युवानाश्वाचा उल्लेख आहे, जो निपुत्रिक आहे आणि त्याच्या पत्नीसाठी, ती गर्भवती व्हावी म्हणून तयार केलेले जादुई औषध अपघाताने तो स्वतःच प्राशन करतो आणि एका पुत्राला जन्म देतो. देवदत्त पट्टनायक यांची ‘गर्भवान राजा’ ही पहिलीच कल्पित कादंबरी या अद्भुत पेचाची कहाणी सांगतानाच; प्रिय मित्राची पत्नी होण्यासाठी आपले पुरुषी…
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Marathi : Myth = Mithya
Translation of Myth = Mithya: A Handbook of Hindu Mythology Hindus have one God. They also have 330 million gods: male gods, female gods, personal gods, family gods, household gods, village gods, gods of space and time, gods for specific castes and particular professions, gods who reside in trees, in animals, in minerals, in…
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Marathi : My Gita
Translated version of My Gita In a world that seems spellbound by argument over dialogue, vivaad over samvaad, Devdutt highlights how Krishna nudges Arjuna to understand rather than judge his relationships. This becomes relevant today when we are increasingly indulging and isolating the self (selfimprovement, selfactualization, selfrealization–even selfies!).We forget that we live in an…
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Marathi: The Book of Ram
Translation of The Book of Ram राम म्हणजे सामाजिक मूल्यांची जोपासना करणारा मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम| राम म्हणजे रघुवंशाचा वारस, सूर्यकुलातलं एक रत्न आणि विष्णूचा सातवा अवतार अनेक स्त्रीवाद्यांनी त्याला झिडकारलं, तर राजकारण्यांनी त्याला प्रचारासाठी वापरलं; पण त्यामुळे त्यांचं वैभव आणि त्याची भव्यता या गोष्टी मात्र तसूभरही उणावल्या नाहीत| हिंदू धर्मियांनी ज्याची पूजा राजाच्या रूपात केली, असं…
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Marathi: 7 Secrets of the Goddess
Translation of the 7 Secrets of the Goddess Lakshmi massages Vishnu’s feet. Is this male domination? Kali stands on Shiva’s chest. Is this female domination? Shiva is half a woman. Is this gender quality? Why then is Shakti never half a man? Taken literally, stories, symbols and rituals of Hindu mythology have…
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Marathi: Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana
Translation of Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana नगरीपासून दूर अरण्याच्या मधोमध सारथ्याने रथ थांबवला, वृक्षराजीमधून चालण्यासाठी अधीरतेने सीता उतरली. सारथी लक्ष्मण रथातच बसला होता. त्याला काहीतरी सांगायचे आहे हे जाणवून सीता थबकली. जमिनीकडे दृष्टी लावून शेवटी लक्ष्मण बोलला, “तुझा पती, माझा मोठा भाऊ, अयोध्येचा राजा राम याची इच्छा आहे की गावभर अफवा…
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Marathi: 7 Secrets of Vishnu
Translation of 7 Secrets of Vishnu It is significant that the stories of Vishnu rose to prominence after the rise of Buddhism. Prior to that, Hinduism was the religion of the elite-based complex rituals known as yagna and esoteric speculations captured in texts known as the Aranyakas and the Upanishads. These seemed very distant to…
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Marathi: Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharta
Translated version of Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharta In this enthralling retelling of India’s greatest epic, The Mahabharata, originally known as Jaya, Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chhattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu…
