Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists
	Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists title page (1914 edition)
Author	Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
Publisher	London : George G. Harrap & Co.,.
Published in English	1913

Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists (1913) is a book written by Sister Nivedita and Ananda K. Coomaraswamy.^[1]

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".^[2] 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

^ Adwaita P. Ganguly (January 1, 1990). India, Mystic, Complex, and Real: A Detailed Study of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, His Treatment of India's Landscape, History, Social Anthropology, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. VRC Publications. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-81-208-0628-3. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
^ G. S Banhatti (January 1, 1995). Life And Philosophy Of Swami Vivekananda. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-81-7156-291-6. Retrieved October 13, 2012.

External links

Full book at Archive.org

[Ganguly1990-1] Adwaita P. Ganguly (January 1, 1990). India, Mystic, Complex, and Real: A Detailed Study of E.M. Forster's A Passage to India, His Treatment of India's Landscape, History, Social Anthropology, Religion, Philosophy, Music, and Art. VRC Publications. pp. 326–. ISBN 978-81-208-0628-3. Retrieved October 14, 2012.

[Banhatti1995-2] G. S Banhatti (January 1, 1995). Life And Philosophy Of Swami Vivekananda. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. pp. 37–. ISBN 978-81-7156-291-6. Retrieved October 13, 2012.

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