Kashi
Towards The Pilgrimage Archetype
Benares: A World Within a World (HB)
Benares: A World Within a World (PB)
Banaras, The Heritage City of India
Cultural Landscapes and the Lifeworld (P.B.)
Textiles of Banaras
Holy Kashi to Vibrant Varanasi
Kashi/Banaras/Varanasi is a world of its own, a veritable mini India, unique in almost all respects. Its contradictions can be seen in its blend of spirituality and darkness, sanctity and filth, purity and deceipt, culture and grossness.
Luminous Kashi to Vibrant Varanasi presents, as no other book has done before, all these aspects of this paradoxical and fascinating city, and gives an amazing quantity of information on the city, its history, culture and people; its temples and tirthas, mathas and institutions; its scholars, some of them the best in the country; its festivals and lilas; its literature, music, painting and culture; its silk trade and crafts; and its typical inhabitants: sadhus, pandits, pandas, babus, rais, thugs and gundas. More than all, the book finds out, with the help of mythology and metaphysics, the essence of Kashi-its luminosity and its vibrancy! It finally says: walk not in the dark alleys, plunge not in the shallows, but more into the luminosity, and dive deep into the oceans of knowledge. The Kashi you find depends on how far you walk, how deep you dive!
काशी रहस्यम (हिंदी अनुवाद सहित) एवं सूक्ति रत्नावली हिंदी व्याख्या सहित
स्कन्द पुराणीय 'काशीखण्ड ' इस ग्रन्थ से जैसे कशी स्थित विभिन्न तीर्थों, देवालयों, वापी, कूप अदि के भूगोल एवं इतिहास इन दोनों के ज्ञान के साथ उनके आध्यात्मिक एवं धार्मिक महत्व का परिचय प्राप्त होता है वैसे ही 'काशी रहस्य' के अनुशीलन से कशी से सम्बंधित गूढ़ तत्त्वों रहस्यों का ज्ञान होता है. काशीरहस्य यह प्राचीन ब्रह्मवैवर्त का तृतीय खंड है ऐसा उसकी अध्याय के अंत में दी गयी पुष्पिका से ज्ञात होता है.
Cultural Landscapes and the Lifeworld (H.B.)
