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Book Jaya

    Book Details:
  • Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
  • Publisher : Penguin UK
  • Release : 2010-08-16
  • ISBN : 8184751699
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Jaya written by Devdutt Pattanaik and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High above the sky stands Swarga, paradise, abode of the gods. Still above is Vaikuntha, heaven, abode of God. The doorkeepers of Vaikuntha are the twins, Jaya and Vijaya, both whose names mean ‘victory’. One keeps you in Swarga; the other raises you into Vaikuntha. In Vaikuntha there is bliss forever, in Swarga there is pleasure for only as long as you deserve. What is the difference between Jaya and Vijaya? Solve this puzzle and you will solve the mystery of the Mahabharata. In this enthralling retelling of India’s greatest epic, the Mahabharata, originally known as Jaya, Devdutt Pattanaik seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the Sanskrit classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chattisgarh, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkuttu of Tamil Nadu, and Yakshagana of Karnataka. Richly illustrated with over 250 line drawings by the author, the 108 chapters abound with little-known details such as the names of the hundred Kauravas, the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu, the stories of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Aravan and Barbareek, the Mahabharata version of the Shakuntalam and the Ramayana, and the dating of the war based on astronomical data. With clarity and simplicity, the tales in this elegant volume reveal the eternal relevance of the Mahabharata, the complex and disturbing meditation on the human condition that has shaped Indian thought for over 3000 years.

Book Conservation and Development in Irian Jaya

Download or read book Conservation and Development in Irian Jaya written by Ronald Petocz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jaya  An Advanced Optimization Algorithm and its Engineering Applications

Download or read book Jaya An Advanced Optimization Algorithm and its Engineering Applications written by Ravipudi Venkata Rao and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces readers to the “Jaya” algorithm, an advanced optimization technique that can be applied to many physical and engineering systems. It describes the algorithm, discusses its differences with other advanced optimization techniques, and examines the applications of versions of the algorithm in mechanical, thermal, manufacturing, electrical, computer, civil and structural engineering. In real complex optimization problems, the number of parameters to be optimized can be very large and their influence on the goal function can be very complicated and nonlinear in character. Such problems cannot be solved using classical methods and advanced optimization methods need to be applied. The Jaya algorithm is an algorithm-specific parameter-less algorithm that builds on other advanced optimization techniques. The application of Jaya in several engineering disciplines is critically assessed and its success compared with other complex optimization techniques such as Genetic Algorithms (GA), Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Differential Evolution (DE), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), and other recently developed algorithms.

Book Irian Jaya  the Land of Challenges and Promises

Download or read book Irian Jaya the Land of Challenges and Promises written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irian Jaya under the Gun

Download or read book Irian Jaya under the Gun written by Jim Elmslie and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Elmslie traces events in Irian Jaya/West Papua from the departure of the Dutch in 1963 to December 1999. The majority of the indigenous people of the area consider themselves West Papuans living in the land of West Papua, a country incorporated into the Indonesian state without their consent or approval. Made up of Melanesian peoples, the western part of New Guinea is one of the least developed places on earth with the largest expanses outside the Amazon of untouched and, in some cases still unexplored, rainforest and wilderness. It is a region ripe for economic exploitation. Irian Jaya under the Gun chronicles the rapid changes that are taking place under the guise of Indonesian economic development and its generally pro-crony, pro-military, pro-multinational corporation, and anti-Papuan thrust. It describes what can happen to an indigenous population when insensitive governments and avaricious multinationals are more concerned about profits than the environment or the people inhabiting the land.

Book Perspectives on the Bird s Head of Irian Jaya  Indonesia

Download or read book Perspectives on the Bird s Head of Irian Jaya Indonesia written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bird's Head Peninsula of Irian Jaya has long been an area neglected by New Guinea Studies. Only in the late seventies, interest began to focus more intensively on this scientifically important border area between Austronesian and Papuan languages and cultures. In the early nineties, this led to the creation in The Netherlands of the Irian Jaya Studies programme ISIR, which organizes and coordinates multi-disciplinary research on the Bird's Head Peninsula. Within this framework, study of the peninsula has reached a peak, with research being conducted in the area by scientists from different disciplines: anthropology, archaeology, (ethno)botany, demography, development administration, geology and linguistics. The diverse perspectives of these disciplines are subject to constant internal debate. Through ISIR and other research initiatives, there is a growing body of data on and insights into the various disciplines concerned with this fascinating area, with each discipline developing its own specific perspectives on the Bird's Head. These perspectives were presented during the First International Conference Perspectives on the Bird's Head of Irian Jaya, Indonesia, organized by ISIR in cooperation with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences LIPI (Jakarta) and the International Institute for Asian Studies ILAS (Leiden) and held at Leiden University, 13-17 October 1997. Researchers were informed on current perspectives in many disciplines to facilitate integration of findings into wider, interdisciplinary frameworks and to stimulate international debate within and between disciplines. As a result of the Conference, the forty-two contributions in these Proceedings present a wealth of recent developments from various disciplines in New Guinea Studies.

Book Jaya and Rasa  A Love Story

Download or read book Jaya and Rasa A Love Story written by Sonia Patel and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jaya’s 17, a transgender Gujarati outsider who detests wealth, secrets, and privilege, though he has them all. Only thing 16-year-old Rasa has is siblings, plus a mother who controls men like a black-widow spider. Neither one of them has ever known real love or family. Not until their chance meeting one sunny day on a mountain in Hau’ula.

Book Jaya  The Idol of Victory

Download or read book Jaya The Idol of Victory written by Parag Mehta and published by Parag Mehta. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are forces behind the success of a person and of a family. We looked for reasons, traits, and traditions behind the pillar of the family. A woman who carried herself through decades of change with perseverance and guided generations to bright futures. Through listening to the stories of those she impacted, we only begin to see all of her hard work, strife, joy for life, and wealth of knowledge and love. This is a humble effort to paint a story of her life from the compilation of stories we listened to, the things we learned, and the legacies we strive to continue from the woman who raised us.

Book The Korowai of Irian Jaya

Download or read book The Korowai of Irian Jaya written by Gerrit J. van Enk and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of the language and culture of the Korowai, a Papuan community of treehouse dwellers in the rainforest of southern Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The Korowai are a people who have historically been completely isolated from the world around them and have only recently come into contact with outsiders. The authors, who gained access to the tribe in their roles as Christian missionaries, examine the Korowai language and culture in a systematic and integrated way. They sketch the physical, cultural, historical, and linguistic backgrounds of the Korowai community. Also, they fully explicate the language, presenting in fine detail its phonology, morphology, syntax, and kinship terminology--as well as reproducing oral texts that show patterns of grammar, discourse, and culture. This text will be of value to both linguists and anthropologists, not only because it deals with a neglected and threatened society, but also because it does so by viewing (and documenting) the language and culture of that society in a methodical and holistic manner.

Book Irian Jaya

Download or read book Irian Jaya written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain   Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain Ireland written by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has appendices.

Book The Lay of Jaya Prana

Download or read book The Lay of Jaya Prana written by Christiaan Hooykaas and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Sanskrit English Dictionary

Download or read book A Sanskrit English Dictionary written by Monier Monier-Williams and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Antiquities of India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lionel David Barnett
  • Publisher : New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Antiquities of India written by Lionel David Barnett and published by New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1914 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: