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Ancient India Books
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The Bhagavad Gita (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.19 — 81,637 ratings — published -400
The Upanishads (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.25 — 17,718 ratings — published -500
The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.07 — 13,234 ratings — published 1957
The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the History and Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent before the coming of the Muslims (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,847 ratings — published 1954
A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India: From the Stone Age to the 12th Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.16 — 840 ratings — published 2006
Ancient India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.07 — 157 ratings — published 1952
A History of India, Vol. 1: From Origins to 1300 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.63 — 2,040 ratings — published 1966
The Rig Veda (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,740 ratings — published -1000
Mahabharata (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,157 ratings — published 1951
India's Ancient Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,366 ratings — published 2005
Ancient India as Described by Megasthenes and Arrian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.74 — 38 ratings — published 2000
Ramayana (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.19 — 5,346 ratings — published -400
Ancient India: in Historical Outline (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.85 — 299 ratings — published 1998
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.34 — 3,278 ratings — published 2018
The Palace of Illusions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.20 — 65,429 ratings — published 2008
The Holy Vedas (Rig Veda, Yajur Veda, Sama Veda, Atharva Veda)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.15 — 209 ratings — published 1994
The Lost River: On The Trail of the Sarasvati (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.42 — 955 ratings — published 2010
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.45 — 6,905 ratings — published 300
Panchatantra (Illustrated): Classic Tales
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,530 ratings — published -200
Wanderers, Kings, Merchants: The Story of India through Its Languages (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.19 — 609 ratings — published 2021
The Valmiki Ramayana Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.49 — 386 ratings — published
A History of South India: From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of Vijayanagar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.95 — 210 ratings — published 1955
From Lineage to State (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.73 — 48 ratings — published 1985
The Dhammapada (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.27 — 31,150 ratings — published -400
The Arthashastra (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,331 ratings — published -300
Savitri: A Tale of Ancient India (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.86 — 69 ratings — published 1992
The Loom of Time: A Selection of His Plays and Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.83 — 346 ratings — published 1991
India: The Ancient Past: A History of the Indian Sub-Continent from c. 7000 BC to AD 1200 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.62 — 68 ratings — published 2007
In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.94 — 126 ratings — published 1995
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.81 — 110 ratings — published 2024
Civilisation, Education and School in Ancient and Medieval India, 1500 B.C. - 1757 A.D.: Ancient India, 1500 B.C. - 1192 A.D., Vedic Schools and ... in Pedagogy, Andragogy, and Gerontagogy) (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2001
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,879 ratings — published 2024
The Recognition of Śakuntalā (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,043 ratings — published 400
Mahagatha - 100 Tales from the Puranas (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,647 ratings — published 2022
The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.38 — 12,907 ratings — published 400
Prachin Bharat ka Itihas Tatha Sanskriti (Hindi)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.11 — 44 ratings — published
Buddhist Scriptures (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.83 — 322 ratings — published
The Laws of Manu (Penguin Classics)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.34 — 289 ratings — published -150
Ashoka: The Search for India's Lost Emperor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.99 — 676 ratings — published 2014
The Meghadūta of Kālidāsa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.26 — 597 ratings — published 400
The Age of Imperial Unity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.68 — 40 ratings — published 1951
Genetics and the Aryan debate: "Early Indians" Tony Joseph's Latest Assault (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.11 — 35 ratings — published 2019
ANCIENT INDIA: CULTURE OF CONTRADICTIONS (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.18 — 57 ratings — published
The Rigvedic People. 'Invaders'?'Immigrants'? or Indigenous (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.48 — 56 ratings — published
Where the Gods Dwell: Thirteen Temples and their (hi)stories
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.47 — 59 ratings — published 2021
Indica (Greek Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published -300
The Hindus: An Alternative History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,621 ratings — published 2009
Daily Life in Ancient India: From 200 BC to 700 AD (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 3.52 — 56 ratings — published 1961
Ancient India As Described by Ktêsias the Knidian: Being a Translation of the Abridgement of His "indika" by Photios, and of the Fragments of That Work Preserved in Other Writers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1882
The Markandeya Purana (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as ancient-india)
avg rating 4.33 — 73 ratings — published 1991
“I am pain-stricken to say, since the moment I was born, I have found nothing extraordinary in this ancient land of greatness to be exceptionally proud of. I am not a proud Indian. India at its present condition has given me no reason to feel proud.
However, I do feel proud of the ancient Indians, just like I feel proud of the ancient Greeks, the Mayans, the ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians and so on. Scientists are beyond borders, just like the ancient scientists of India, whom you prefer to call as sages.”
― Prescription: Treating India's Soul
However, I do feel proud of the ancient Indians, just like I feel proud of the ancient Greeks, the Mayans, the ancient Egyptians, the Babylonians and so on. Scientists are beyond borders, just like the ancient scientists of India, whom you prefer to call as sages.”
― Prescription: Treating India's Soul
“At most periods of her history India, though a cultural unit, has been torn by internecine war. In statecraft her rulers were cunning and unscrupulous. Famine, flood and plague visited her from time to time, and killed millions of her people. Inequality of birth was given religious sanction, and the lot of the humble was generally hard. Yet our overall impression is that in no other part of the [Page 9] ancient world were the relations of man and man, and of man and the state, so fair and humane. In no other early civilization were slaves so few in number, and in no other ancient lawbook are their rights so well protected as in the Arthaśāstra (p. 152f). No other ancient lawgiver proclaimed such noble ideals of fair play in battle as did Manu (p. 126). In all her history of warfare Hindu India has few tales to tell of cities put to the sword or of the massacre of noncombatants. The ghastly sadism of the kings of Assyria, who flayed their captives alive, is completely without parallel in ancient India. There was sporadic cruelty and oppression no doubt, but, in comparison with conditions in other early cultures, it was mild. To us the most striking feature of ancient Indian civilization is its humanity.”
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