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A useful application for yoga practitioners. APMB – Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha is recognized internationally as one of the most systematic yoga manuals available today. Since its first publication by the Bihar School of Yoga in 1969, it has been reprinted 21 times and translated into many languages. It is the main reference text used …
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The historian, philologist and writer Sarantos I. Kargakos died today, January 14, 2019, at the age of 82. In the news of his death, the President and the Board of Directors of the Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture and Development (ELINEPA) and the Athens Center for Indian and Indo-Hellenic Studies express their condolences to the family …
HALKAA – INDIA – ΗINDI – SOCIAL DRAMA – COLOR, 110 ‘, 2018. DIRECTION:Nila Madhab Panda. SCREENPLAY: Nitin Dixit, Nila Madhab Panda. MUSIC:ShankarMahadevan, Loy Mendonsa, Ehsaan Noorani. CAST: Paoli Dam, Vipin Katyal,Ranvir Shorey, Tathastu. PRODUCTION: Shiv Nadar Foundation. Indian film director Nila Madhab Panda participates with his latest feature film “Halkaa”(Relief – English title, ‘Pichku’s …
The best new-year gift for the friends of India The Indo-Hellenic Society for Culture & Development has released its new desk calendar to welcome the new year 2019. The calendar belongs to the series “Travels in Beauty and Gnosis” and includes landscapes and moments immortalized by the photographic lens of ELINEPA’s members during their cultural tour …
by Dimitra Stasinopoulou Travelling to North Pakistan, is an adventure in and of itself! It is a country blessed with abundant natural and historical riches. From breath-taking Himalayan mountain scenery, to rivers and forests, unique tribes, important archaeological sites, museums and very hospital people. Especially the north, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, is a wild frontier. Only for visiting …
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The forerunner of Modern Greek Indology was undoubtedly Dimitrios Galanos the Athenian (1760-1833), who lived and worked for 40 years in Benaras, India, translating into Greek some of the most important texts of Indian literature. The manuscripts of Galanos were transferred, according to his last will, to the National Library of Athens, where they are …
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by Demetrios Galanos (1760-1833) Durga (Gr. Δουργά) (pages xxxix + 67), includes the translation of Devīmāhātmyam (Greatness of the Goddess). Devīmāhātmyam known also as Durgā Saptashatī, Durgãmãhãtmyam, Caṇḍī Pāṭha or simply Caṇḍī is part of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (chap. 81- 93) and it is estimated to have been composed in Sanskrit between 400-600 CE. Devīmāhātmyam contains hymns to the glory of the goddess of light, Durgă, which destroys …
by Demetrios Galanos (1760-1833) The sixth volume of Galanos’s works, published under the title, Hitopadesha or Pancha Tantra, written by the wise Vishnusarna and Psittakos Mythologia Noctrina, contains stories from Hitopadeśa (Part Two, No. 1852, 150 pages), Pañcatantra (Mss., no. 1842 and 1852, 111 pages) and Śuka-saptati or Seventy tales of the parrot (Ms. No. 1850, 77 pages) …
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by Demetrios Galanos (1760-1833) The book, as its title suggests, is a collection of stories (Itihāsa Samuccaya) from Mahābhārata one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India which is attributed to Vyāsa. In the manuscript there is a note informing us that Galano had completed this translation in 1824. (Pages xxxvi + 285). The fifth publication in a series of Gananos’ manuscripts (Ms. No. 13). …
by Demetrios Galanos (1760-1833) The Raghuvamsa or Genealogy of Raghu (Gr. Ραγγου Βάνσα ή Γενεαλογία του Ράγγου) (pages xcv + 275) is the first translation into the Greek language of the epic work Raghuvamśa by the most celebrated Sanskrit poet Kālidāsa (5th century AD). The Sanskrit epic (mahakavya) narrates, in 19 sargas (cantos), the stories related to the Raghu dynasty, namely the family of King Dilipa and his descendants …
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