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Published in English
  
1913

Published in english
  
1913

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Author
  
Sister Nivedita

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Publisher
  
London : George G. Harrap & Co.,.

Similar
  
Sister Nivedita books, Other books

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1913) is a book written by Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.

Contents

Background

Responding to the call of Swami Vivekananda, Sister 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 wrote multiple books on Indian history, culture, Vedic religion, Hinduism, Buddhism etc.

Myths

In this book the author included and narrated some myths and stories from ancient Hindu and Buddhist literature. The book includes a good number of water colour illustrations which were created under the supervision of Abanindranath Tagore. Tagore himself drew some of the pictures in the book.

The myths and stories of this book include–

  • Mythology of the Indo-Aryan Race
  • Ramayana
  • Mahabharata
  • Krishna
  • Buddha
  • Shiva
  • Other stories from Puranas, epics and Vedas

    • References

    Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists Wikipedia
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