Religion & Spirituality
azw3 |eng | 2015-07-20 | Author:Senge, Ra Yeshe [Senge, Ra Yeshe]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN TO INDIA AND BACK Council of translators—To Nepal and India—Return through southern Tibet—Translation activities—Liberation of Darma Dodé, son of Marpa—Farewells to the Master Around the same time Ralo ...
( Category: Religious April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-08-29 | Author:al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din [al-Nuwayri, Shihab al-Din]

ON VENOMOUS CREATURES THAT ARE NOT DEADLY These include the dung beetle, the gecko, the thorn-tail lizard, the weasel, the chameleon, the hedgehog, mice and rats, ticks, ants, grubs, lice, ...
( Category: Art April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Doniger, Wendy [Doniger, Wendy]

KŖṢŅA Like Rāma, Kṛṣņa is an ‘Epic’ figure in two senses of the word: he appears in one of the two great Sanskrit Epics (the Mahābhārata), and he is a ...
( Category: Vedas April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 1973-10-24 | Author:Penguin Classics

2 The Forest Journey Enlil of the mountain, the father of the gods, had decreed the destiny of Gilgamesh. So Gilgamesh dreamed and Enkidu said, ‘The meaning of the dream ...
( Category: Epic April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-03-07 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Once more Rostam spoke: “Forget this injustice, prince. Don’t sully my name and make your own soul contemptible; only evil will come of this struggle. I shall give you a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-06-07 | Author:Shaw, Sarah [Shaw, Sarah]

{21} The story of the monkey king Mahakapi Jataka (407) Vol. III, 369–75 The selfless monkey has always been a great favourite throughout South-East Asia. It is shown at Ajanta, ...
( Category: Mythology & Folk Tales April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-08-28 | Author:Ferdowsi, Abolqasem [Ferdowsi, Abolqasem]

Rostam Spies on Sohrab The sun withdrew from the world, and dark night spread her troops across the plain. Eager to observe the enemy, Rostam came before Kavus. He said, ...
( Category: Middle Eastern April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-01-29 | Author:Dawood, N.J. [Dawood, N.J.]

Ṭā’ Hā’ In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate [20:1] Ṭā’ hā’. It was not to distress you that We revealed the Koran to you, but to admonish ...
( Category: Bible Study & Reference April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-10-25 | Author:Granoff, Phyllis [Granoff, Phyllis]

21 SIṂHIKĀ Now when her time came the Queen Vicitramālā, wife of Sukośala, gave birth to a son. The delivery was smooth and the baby bore all of the auspicious ...
( Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2007-07-25 | Author:Lucretius

Book V Cosmos and Civilization Who can build a fitting song, who has the strength of heart To match the Majesty of Things and these truths in his art? Or ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2003-04-23 | Author:Homer

V Hymn to Aphrodite Muse, speak to me of the works of Aphrodite, the golden one, the Cyprian, she who awakens sweet longing in the gods and subdues the race ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-08-27 | Author:Polybius

BOOK V Affairs in Egypt THE DEATH OF CLEOMENES The young Ptolemy Philopator took possession of the throne of Egypt early in 221 B.C. Seleucus, King of Syria, had died ...
( Category: Greek April 19,2020 )
azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2004-01-28 | Author:Plato

C[3] 488b2–491d3 Socrates does not immediately defend himself from Callicles’ attack, but goes to work on his claim by attempting to get him to clarify what he meant by ‘stronger’ ...
( Category: Greek & Roman April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-04-29 | Author:Grant, Michael [Grant, Michael]

THE DEFEAT OF HANNIBAL After maintaining his army for fifteen years in Italy, he is driven out, followed to North Africa, and finally defeated at the battle of Zama.1 Over ...
( Category: Anthologies April 19,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:Sophocles

WOMEN OF TRACHIS Some time after the performance of his famous labours in the service of Eurystheus, Heracles married Deianeira, daughter of Oineus of Calydon, whom he won after a ...
( Category: Medieval April 19,2020 )