Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilisation

This book interprets for the Western mind the key motifs of India`a legends myth, and folklore, taken directly from the sanskrit, and illustrated with seventy plates of Indian art. It is primarily an introduction to image thinking and picture reading in Indian art and thought and it seeks to make the profound Hindu and Buddhist intuitions of the riddles of life and death recongnizable not merely as Oriental but as universal elements.

• The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Penguin Classics)
• Ka: Stories of the Mind and Gods of India
• Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India
• Philosophies of India
• The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil
• Ritual: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
• The Upanishads: A New Translation by Vernon Katz and Thomas Egenes (Tarcher Cornerstone Editions)
• The Rites of Passage
• A River Sutra
• The Bhagavad-Gita : Krishna's Counsel in Time of War (Bantam Classics)