In the world map Sri Lanka (Heladiva) is in latitude 5.55 to 9.51 east. It’s in length and breadth is 432 and 224 kilometres respectively and in area is 65,525 square kilometres. The southwest monsoon starts in May and ends in September ...
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Rawana was the grandson of Rishi Pulasthi and son of Sage Visravasmuni. He was the younger brother of Vaisrawana Kuvera (Kubera) and the elder brother of Vibishana, Kumbhakarna, Mahi Rawana, Hema, Khara, Dushana, Luxhman, an...
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The talk delivered by N.C.K Kiriella – Chairman Ramayana Trail Executive Committee of The Sri Lankan Tourism Ministry at The Indian Cultural Centre of The Indian High Commission on July 16th 2009.
Music party on a riverside terrace
North India, c. 1670
A music party takes place on the terrace of one of the noblemen’s havelis or garden mansions that once lined the Jumna river at Agra, upstream from the Taj Mahal. The Muslim noble who hosts this soirée presides against a flowered gold cu...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Music and Musical Instruments of southern India and the Deccan
By Charles Russel Day
The plates drawn by William Gibb
Published by Novello, Ewer & Co., London - 1891
Ascetics making music, illustrating the musical mode Kedar Raga
Arki, Himachal Pradesh
Late 17th century
The musical mode Kedar is visualised as two yogis or ascetics making music within a small pavilion. Seated on a leopard skin, a traditional seat of yogis who have mastered the temptations of ...
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Digital Rare Book:
The Divan-i-Hafiz
By Hafiz
Translated from Persian to English by Henry Wilberforce Clarke
Published by Government of India Central Printing Office, Calcutta- 1891
Digital Rare Book:
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
Translated into English prose from the original Sanskrit text
By Pratap Chandra Roy and Kisari Mohan Ganguli Published by Bharata Press, Calcutta - 1884
Kisari Mohan Ganguli (also K. M. Ganguli) was an Indian translator, who is most ...
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Digital Rare Book:
MAHABHARATA - THe Epic of Ancient India
Condensed into English Verse
By Romesh Chunder Dutt
With an introduction by F.Max Muller
Published J.M.Dent & Co., London - 1899
Digital Rare Book:
The Brihat Jataka of Varaha Mihira
Translated into English by N. Chidambaram Iyer
Printed by Thomson & Co., Madras - 1905
Second Edition - Revised and Enlarged
Scientific opinion:
A critical study of the work - VYMANIKA SHASTRA
By H.S.Mukunda, S.M.Deshpande, H.R.Nagendra, A.Prabhu and S.P.Govindaraju
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore - 1974
A study by aeronautical and mechanical engineering researchers at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore...
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