The Magic Flute (Krishnavatara Vol.I)

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Item Code: IDI871
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan
Author: K. M .Munshi
Language: English
Edition: 2021
ISBN: 9788172764630
Pages: 249
Cover: Paperback
Other Details 7.0" X 4.6"
Weight 220 gm
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Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi's versatility and achievements were in a way unique. He was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of India's Constitution and a seasoned statesman. Coming under the inspiring influence of Sri Aurobindo during his student days, Munshi had been an ardent fighter for India's freedom, working at different stages in close association with Jinnah, Tilak, Besant, Mahatma Gandhi, Sardar Patel and Pandit Nehru. His achievements as Home Minister of Bombay in 1937, as India's food Minister and as Governor of Uttar Pradesh had been characterized by rare courage and decisive energy.

Acknowledged as the foremost writer in modern Gujarati literature, he has to his credit a vast and varied literature including novels, dramas, memoirs and history in Gujarati, as also several historical and other works in English, notably Gujarat and Its Literature, Imperial Gurjaras, Creative Art of Life, To Badrinath, The End of an Era, Krishnavatara, Bhagavad Gita and Modern Life, Saga of Indian Sculpture, Bhagawan Parashurama, Tapasvini and Prithvi Vallabh.

Preface

The Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan-that Institute of Indian Culture in Bombay-needed a Book University, a series of books which, if read, would serve the purpose of providing higher education. Particular emphasis, however, was to be put on such literature as revealed the deeper impulsions of India. As a first step, it was decided to bring out in English 100 books, 50 of which were to be taken in hand almost at once.

It is our intention to publish the books we select, not only in English, but also in the following Indian languages: Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam.

This scheme, involving the publication of 900 volumes, requires ample funds and an all Indian organization. The Bhavan is exerting its utmost to supply them.

The objectives for which the Bhavan stands are the reintegration of Indian culture in the light of modern knowledge and to suit our present day needs and the resuscitation of its fundamental values in their pristine vigour.

Let me make our goal more explicit:

We seek the dignity of man, which necessarily implies the creation of social condition which would allow him freedom to evolve along the lines of his own temperament and capacities; we seek the harmony of individual efforts and social relations, not in any make-shift way, but within the frame-work of the Moral Order; we seek the creative art of life, by the alchemy of which human limitations are progressively transmuted, so that man become the instrument of God, and is able to see Him in all and all in Him.

The world, we feel, is too much with us. Nothing would uplift or inspire us so much as the beauty and aspiration which such books can teach.

In this series, therefore, the literature of India, ancient and modern, will be published in a form easily accessible to all. Books in other literatures of the world, if they illustrate the principles we stand for, will also be included.

This common pool of literature, it is hoped, will enable the reader, eastern or western, to understand and appreciate currents of world thought, as also the movements of the mind in India, which, though they flow through different linguistic channels, have a common urge and aspiration.

Fittingly, the Book University's first venture is the Mahabharat, summarised by one of the greatest living Indians, C. Rajagopalachari; the second work is on a section of it, the Gita, by H. V. Divatia, an eminent jurist and a student of philosophy. Centuries ago, it was proclaimed of the Mahabharata. "What is not in it , is nowhere." After twenty-five centuries, we can use the same words about it. He who knows it not, knows not the heights and depths of the soul; he misses the trials and tragedy and the beauty and grandeur of life.

The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature itself, containing a code of life, a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival; but above all, it has for its core the Gita, which is, as the world is beginning to find out, the noblest of scriptures and the grandest of sagas in which the climax is reached in the wondrous apocalypse in the Eleventh Canto.

Through such books alone the harmonies under lying true culture, I am convinced, will one day reconcile the disorders of modern life.

I thank all those who have helped to make this new branch of the Bhavan's activity successful.

C O N T E N T S
Chapterpage
Invocation1
Prologue2
1.The Marriae of Vasudeva and Devaki3
2.Kamsa's Wrath 6
3.Kamsa makes a Plan10
4.Akruna, the Saintly14
5.Kamsa's Predicaament18
6.The Prophecy of Veda Vyasa21
7.The Time draws near in Hastinapura24
8.Nanda visits Mathura30
9.Balarama is Born36
10.The Eighth Child41
11.Kamsa's Strategy46
12.And He was named Krishna52
13.Putana Masi goes to Gokul57
14.Trinavrit69
15.Krishna's Musings78
16.How Women Feel about Clothes !84
17.The Miraacle of the Twin Trees90
18.Vasudeva and Devaki return to Mathura98
19.Radha108
20.As the Years Passed117
21.A Mad Adventure122
22.Kaliya of the Poisonous130
23.The Betrothal of Radha140
24.Ajyyan Returns from the Wars149
25.The Lifting of Govardhan155
26.The Dying minister161
27.Kamsa's Summons167
28.Summoned to Mathura174
29.The Goddess of Joy and Beauty181
30.Krishna Leaves for Mathura190
31.Andhaka's Warning197
32.Trivakra, the thrice Crooked205
33.The Sacred Bow213
34.Master of the Elephants220
35.Kuvalayapida: the Angry Elephant228
36.Chanur, the Champion235
37.The Prophecy Comes True243
Notes250
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