Replete with inspired illustrations by award-winning artists B.G. Sharma and Mahaveer Swami, Beauty, Power & Grace features Krishna Dharma’s dramatic retellings of pivotal ancient Indian stories of the many Hindu Goddesses.
Adapted from ancient Sanskrit texts, the stories in
Beauty, Power & Grace represent one of the crucial fundamental aspects of Hinduism—the innumerable manifestations of divinity. Among these, the portrayal of the Goddess is most likely the most alluring. She appears as a devoted wife, a master of the arts, a terrifying demon slayer, a scornful critic, and a doting mother, to name only some of her forms. In Vedic tradition, these depictions of the Goddess reflect the belief that female and male are simply different expressions of one supreme, absolute truth.These profound stories are brought together here in an exquisitely illustrated collection that reveals the quite a lot of manifestations of the Goddess, ranging from the iconic to the difficult to understand: Mother Yashoda peers into her infant’s mouth and is astonished to catch a glimpse of all the universe; Ganga Devi, now synonymous with the sacred river, rides upon a great crocodile and purifies those whom she encounters; and Kali, adorned with a garland of skulls, drinks the blood of her sufferers on the battlefield.
A definitive and timeless celebration of Goddess imagery, symbolism, and lore,
Beauty, Power & Grace stunningly displays the fascinating intersection between color, form, and meaning on the heart of Hindu tradition.
Category: New Age Goddesses
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