By
Steven J. Rosen and Kaisori Bellach
About
Avatar Art offers a stunning panorama of the most popular figures in India's array of avatars, gods, sages and demons. Explore a fascinating Vedic world portrayed by contemporary artists.
Learn why Vishnu has four arms, why Siva dances and why Ganesh sports the head of an elephant. Read about the curse that created a snake-bird and led to a king's immolation, and the dishonorable treatment of a queen that ignited the famous Mahabharata war. On these pages, Rama and Ravana battle it out, and the man-lion Narasingha protects a prince. Over 100 color paintings, each with a fascinating story.
Avatar Art is divided into three sections:
1) Avatars, Devas, Sages and Demons.
2) The life of Krishna, the Supreme Godhead.
3) Sri Caitanya and his associates. Known as "The Golden Avatar", Sri Caitanya is Krishna Himself in disguise as His own devotee. He appeared on earth during the late fifteenth century.
Most of these paintings were originally produced for the epic Srimad-Bhagavatam (Bhagavata Purana) and Sri Caitanya-Caritamrita series of books, translated with elaborate commentaries by by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, also published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.
Product Details
Flexibound, 220 pages, full color, 5.5 x 8.25 x 0.5 inches. Published by The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. ISBN: 978-91-7149-801-4
Question: What's Flexibound?
Answer: It's a book cover that feels like a cross between hardcover and paperback. It's more durable than paperback, and more flexible than a hardcover. Common examples include Bibles, guide books and cookbooks. Flexibound books have a hard spine that allows the book to lie almost flat when open, with flexible covers that make it easier to flip through and find information.
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My Mother read this book for seven hours the first night she got it. Really beautiful book. Thank you. Hare Krsna.
