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Cradle Tales of Hinduism

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Language
  
English

Published in English
  
1907

ISBN
  
81-85301-93-X

Author
  
Publisher
  
Longmans

Pages
  
332 pages (paperback)

Originally published
  
1907

Published in english
  
1907

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Sister Nivedita books, Other books

Cradle Tales of Hinduism (1907) is a collection of stories by Sister Nivedita. It is an introduction to Hindu mythology; the stories come from the Mahabharata, the Ramayana and other Hindu sources and are presented as they were told in Indian nurseries.

Contents

Background

Nivedita travelled to India in 1898. Josephine MacLeod, a friend and devotee of Swami Vivekananda asked him how best she could help him and got the reply to "Love India". Nivedita wanted to interpret Indian culture to the Western world and so wrote this book.

Stories

Stories include–

  • Story of Shiva
  • Story of (Brahma)
  • Story of Rama
  • Story of the great snake
  • Story of Prahlada
  • Story of Dhruva etc.
  • Story of Sati
  • Story of Nala and Damayanti
  • Throne of Vikramaditya
  • References

    Cradle Tales of Hinduism Wikipedia


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