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Comics :: Amar Chitra Katha :: Regular Titles Sets[Regular Titles] Set of 50 ACK titles- (Part I - 50 Books)
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Edition: Paperback
Language: English
Author: Anant Pai
Publisher: India Book House Pvt. Ltd.
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This is an assorted selection of 50 Amar Chitra Katha Regular Titles. They will be picked from the selection of Amar Chitra Katha Regular Titles listed below. This set is guaranteed to have no duplicates.
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Krishna is the most endearing and ennobling character in Indian mythology. He is at once the common cowherd engaging the milkmaids in playful banter and the supreme intellectual engaged in the exposition of the continued ... |
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Hanuman, the son of Pavana and Anjana, was born a monkey and yet attained a prominent place among the Hindu Gods, by his sterling character.
Hanuman's unflinching devotion to Rama has made him the greatest of continued ... |
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The story of Rama and Sita was first set down by the sage Valmiki in his epic poem "Ramayana".
Rama was the eldest son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya, who had three wives- Kaushalya, Kaikeyi and Sumitra. R continued ... |
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Ramayana, the earliest epic poem in Sanskrit, is the oldest work of genuine poetry and in that sense its author, the sage Valmiki is known as the "Adi Kavi" or pristine poet.
It is said that the poem gushed ou continued ... |
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Bhagavad-Gita or the Song of the Divine One is a celebrated episode in the epic, Mahabharata. It is the form of a dialogue between Dhritarashtra, the blind king of Hastinapura, and Sanjaya who describes the hap continued ... |
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The Puranas are full of legends about the victories of Shiva over the forces of evil. As Rudra or Bhairava, he is the destroyer of evil. As Shankara or Shiva ?the auspicious? ? he restores that which is destroy continued ... |
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The story of Nala and Damayanti is one of the episodes narrated in the Mahabharata, the great epic of India. Yudhishthira after losing his all in a game of dice, had to retire to the jungle, along with his brot continued ... |
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Chanakya also known as Kautilya, the hero of this story is the author of the well-known Sanskrit classic 'Arthashastra'.
Chanakya helped Chandragupta, the founder of the Mauryan dynasty, in gaining the throne continued ... |
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No traditional Hindu will launch upon a new undertaking without invoking Ganesha, for it is he, as Vighneshwara, prime remover of obstacles, who clears the path to success. The Sarvajanik puja or public worship continued ... |
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Hinduism, like any other living religion, produced its share of free thinkers. Prince Siddhartha who became Gautama the Buddha was the most noteworthy of them all. The Hinduism that Siddhartha saw had lost much continued ... |
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The story of Savitri and Satyavan appears in the Mahabharata. It is one of the many stories told by the sage Markandeya to the Pandavas, in exile. Yudhishthira, the eldest Pandava is depressed by having to witn continued ... |
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Vishnu, the Preserver, is the second of the Hindu triad. Whenever evil is on the ascendant, Vishnu descends on earth to uphold righteousness and to destroy evil.
The tales of these descents or avatars told in continued ... |
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Hanuman was the chief general of the monkey king, Sugreeva. The story of his adventures, particularly after the monkey army reaches the sea-shore opposite Lanka, is one of the best efforts of pure imagination t continued ... |
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Goddess Durga is as widely worshipped as Vishnu and Shiva. She is the fierce form of Devi who, as Shakti, is considered the personification of universal energy. According to the Devi Bhagavata the Universe is b continued ... |
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Today, we cannot imagine an India without the Ganga. Yet there was a time, according to the 'Mahabharata' and 'Ramayana', when there was no Ganga on earth ; at least not until King Bhagiratha brought her here. continued ... |
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Krishna is the great lover of Indian mythology; Yet the details of the women he had wooed, won and wed are surprisingly limited and perhaps should be confined to his conquest of Rukmini. Here is the unalloyed r continued ... |
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Indian culture has an amazing vitality which has enabled it to withstand and overcome the shocks of millennia of history. That vitality lies in the rational and universal dimension of her spirituality, which ev continued ... |
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Jarasandha was the emperor of Aryavarta (north India) at the time when the Pandavas were ruling at Indraprastha. Most of the kings of North India acknowledged his suzerainty out of fear. Many of those who did n continued ... |
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In a country with such a high percentage of illiteracy, it is amazing how Indian Culture has made its way to us in an unbroken thread through the labyrinth of history and through the dark centuries whose record continued ... |
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The divine sage Narada is the most popular figure in Puranic lore. No event of significance takes place in the Puranas that Narada does not have a hand in. He is depicted as a messenger always on the move, visi continued ... |
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Having realized the cause of human suffering and the remedy thereof, Lord Buddha wandered from place to place to enlighten the people. His teachings concern the forces that cause bondage and the means by which continued ... |
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According to the Bhagawat Purana, Narakasura was born of Mother Earth. Yet in his personality he was a brutish beast.
Naraka's deeds were so dark that his name has come down as a symbol of darkness. Many who c continued ... |
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The triumph of the little man over the mighty is a recurring theme in literature. Sometimes he does it with a sling and stone, but more often, like Tenali Raman, with nimble wit. He was a Telugu poet and the co continued ... |
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Though references of Indra occur in Hindu scriptures from Vedic times to the medieval age, there has been a gradual erosion in his importance. The Vedic Indra, wielder of the thunderbolt, was among the most imp continued ... |
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Arjuna was as devoted to Krishna as Hanuman was to Rama. Our first story, which is based on a folktale popular in South India, is about the encounter between Arjuna and Hanuman both of whom come to realize that continued ... |
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Krittivasa wrote a version of the Ramayana in Bengali nearly five hundred years ago. As he was a poet of the people, his story is written in simple language and has metaphors that are easily understood. Our sto continued ... |
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The encounter between Hanuman, the money hero of the Ramayana and Bheema, the mighty Pandava prince, is one of the most dramatic incidents in the Mahabharata.
Hanuman is the son of Vayu, the wind-god; and Bhee continued ... |
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Valmiki's Sanskrit epic, the Ramayana, has caught the fancy of innumerable minds after him. Poems, plays and novels have been written on the Ramayana theme in almost all the Indian languages.
Krittivasa wrote continued ... |
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Karttikeya, the commander in chief of the celestial army, is also known as Subrahmanya, Skanda, Guha and Kumara. In the southern states of India, Subrahmanya is a popular deity even today. Among the Tamil-speak continued ... |
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The story of Shakuntala originally appeared in the first book of the Mahabharata where the lineage of the chief characters is detailed. It was later adapted with minor changes into a play by Kalidasa, the great continued ... |
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The Mahabharata is a gallery of heroes and Karna is the most heroic of them. Fate denied him all his dues. But he fought and achieved all that a man could aspire to have.
He was as much a Pandava prince as any continued ... |
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The tenth book of the Bhagavata Purana gives in detail the life story of Lord Krishna , his birth, early childhood, adolescence and adulthood. The many incidents narrated are full of adventures and romance and continued ... |
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Abhimanyu, like a shooting star, illuminates the horizon of the Mahabharata epic for a few moments and vanishes in trails of glory.
Abhimanyu's father was the great Arjuna. His mother, Subhadra, was the siste continued ... |
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In those ancient days, when the king was next to God in power and authority, a young prince, Devavrata, declined a kingdom. He reinforced his refusal by a vow of celibacy so that no offspring of his could come continued ... |
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The cult of Krishna is popular all over India. Some see Krishna as the eternal child, while for others he is the wise prophet of the Gita.
Perhaps he is the most popular as Krishna the divine lover, playing hi continued ... |
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History chronicles innumerable kings who were brave conquerors and valiant soldiers. But Ashoka stands above all of them because he is the only one who at the zenith of his conquests saw the futility of violenc continued ... |
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The sons of Brahma came to the gates of Vishnu's abode. The gatekeepers, Jaya and Vijaya, did not know who they were and refused them entry. The sons of Brahma were enraged and cursed them, "You shall be born t continued ... |
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The story of how the Devas procured the divine nectar and became immortal after drinking it is interesting as well as dramatic.
It was the ocean of milk which was churned. The great mountain Mandara was the st continued ... |
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Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi is among those national heroines whose name conjures up visions of tremendous bravery and dauntless courage against overwhelming odds. She was not aggressive by nature and it was only continued ... |
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The original text of the Panchatantra in Sanskrit was probably written about 200 B.C. by a great Hindu scholar, Pandit Vishnu Sharma. But some of the tales themselves must be much older, their origin going back continued ... |
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The Ramayana of Valmiki is considered to be the oldest epic of India. unlike the Mahabharata, the story of Rama has no historical foundation. Yet the poem has become an intrinsic part of Hindu life. The victory continued ... |
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Draupadi sprang full grown from the fire but no other heroine in Hindu mythology was as earthly as she.
Her birth, sought by King Drupada, presaged a purpose. Her steely will, which often gleams through her ha continued ... |
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The Jatakas on which the present title is based is a collection of five hundred and fifty stories, included in the Pali canon. They are tales in which the life of Bodhisatva in his previous births is narrated. continued ... |
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The national movement for independence in India threw up figures larger than life, who surrendered themselves to a cause bigger than anything they had ever known.
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose stands out as a dyn continued ... |
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The wit and wisdom of Birbal had endeared him not only to Akbar, but also to a vast majority of the subjects of the Mughal Empire. He had the rare distinction of achieving immense popularity during his lifetime continued ... |
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Vali, Sugreeva, and Hanuman have key roles in Valmiki's famous epic, Ramayana, from which our Amar Chitra Katha has been drawn. They were begotten in the monkey tribe by Indra, king of the Devas, Surya, the sun continued ... |
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Garuda is a mythical bird and has been held in great veneration in India from time immemorial. Many Indologists hold that this deity is of Dravidian origin.
A stone flag-post, often covered with a metal plate, continued ... |
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Rabindranath Tagore played a significant role in bringing about a new awakening in India in the later half of the nineteenth century. His life and creative work provided the then Indian society with a purpose, continued ... |
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Shiva is the third deity in the Hindu triad. He ought to be the most terrible one because he presides over destruction, whereas Brahma and Vishnu are associated with creation and preservation, respectively. Yet continued ... |
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The story of Shiva's marriage is symbolic of the perfect fusion of the male and the female principles which, according to a Hindu view of life, are the moving powers behind the universe.
Shiva (the male princi continued ... |
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The Ramayana, written in Sanskrit by Valmiki is considered to be the "Adikavya", the first ever poem. Tulsidas rendered it into Hindi in the sixteenth century. But his "Ramcharit-manas" differs from the origina continued ... |
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Tansen, who was a contemporary of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, is the symbol of the supreme achievements of Indian music. He was not only a great performer but he was also a great composer and musicologist. He was continued ... |
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All living creature die to be born again, so the Hindus believe. The Buddha was no exception. Legend has it that several lifetimes as a Bodhisattva went into making of the Buddha, the Enlightened one.
The Bod continued ... |
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All living creature die to be born again, so the Hindus believe. The Buddha was no exception. Legend has it that several lifetimes as a Bodhisattva went into making of the Buddha, the Enlightened one.
The Bod continued ... |
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It is believed that several lifetimes as a Bodhisattva go into the making of the Buddha, the Enlightened one.
The Bodhisattva has come in many forms- man, monkey, deer, elephant and lion. Whatever his mortal b continued ... |
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Panchatantra was written by Pandit Vishnu Sharma between the second and third centuries B.C. but Hitopadesha came much later. Narayana, the author of Hitopadesha, drew most of his material from Panchatantra. He continued ... |
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The wit and wisdom of Birbal had endeared him not only to Akbar, but also to a vast majority of the subjects of the Mughal empire. He had the rare distinction of achieving immense popularity during his lifetime continued ... |
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The wit and wisdom of Birbal had endeared him not only to Akbar, but also to a vast majority of the subjects of the Mughal empire. He had the rare distinction of achieving immense popularity during his lifetime continued ... |
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The wit and wisdom of Birbal had endeared him not only to Akbar, but also to a vast majority of the subjects of the Mughal empire. He had the rare distinction of achieving immense popularity during his lifetime continued ... |
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The original Sanskrit text of the Panchatantra was probably written about 200 B.C. by the great scholar, Vishnu Sharma. But some of the tales must have been in circulation much earlier. In course of time, trave continued ... |
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The original text of the Panchatantra in Sanskrit was probably written about 200 B.C. by a great Hindu scholar, Pandit Vishnu Sharma. But some of the tales themselves must be much older, their origin going back continued ... |
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The original Sanskrit text of the Panchatantra was probably written about 200 B.C. by the great scholar, Vishnu Sharma. But some of the tales must have been in circulation much earlier. In course of time, trave continued ... |
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With Akbar coming to the throne of the Mughal Empire in early 1556, the Mughals had become a part of India. As a conqueror, Akbar triumphed all over North India. He added Gujarat, Bengal, Orissa, Kashmir, and S continued ... |
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During the seventeenth century, the Mughals reigned supreme over Northern and Central India. In the Deccan endless battles went on between other kings like Adil Shah of Bijapur and chiefs like the Nawab of Janj continued ... |
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Drona, the valiant archer, is second only to Bheeshma among the respected elders of the Mahabharata. Yet he remains an outsider. He added a streak of personal vendetta to that tale of family feud.
Drona had st continued ... |
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In the Puranas, there are distinct and different scales in the hierarchy of deities. At the highest end of the spectrum, there is the Divine Trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Maheshwara, often depicted as a single continued ... |
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The Indra of the Vedas is a very powerful king, the ruler of the heavens. But as we come to the epics, we find he becomes more and more human. He faces a number of problems, the type that mortal kings face on e continued ... |
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Chandragupta Vikramaditya (A.D. 380-413), the son of Samudragupta, is one of the most familiar and celebrated names in Indian history. He is remembered for his valor, courage, sense of justice, and above all, h continued ... |
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"Malavika", is based on Mahakavi Kalidasa's play, "Malavikagnimitra".
Being the first play of Kalidasa, "Malavikagnimitra", has more of the young enthusiastic writer's sense of fun, play and intrigue than the continued ... |
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The Amar Chitra Katha, Dasharatha, has been drawn mainly from Valmiki's famous epic poem, "Ramayana".
Ravana, an evil Rakshasa, had performed severe penances and obtained a boon from Brahma. No celestial being continued ... |
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The story of Dhruva is taken from the Bhagawat Purana. Dhruva was hardly five years old when he observed severe penance to win the favor of Lord Narayana (Vishnu). The Lord was pleased with the faith of the chi continued ... |
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Tradition has it that Rama was the ideal king. Gandhiji was only reinforcing it when he named his ideal state "Rama-Rajya". Yet the predecessors of Rama, in his dynasty of the Ikshwakus, were as valiant and ben continued ... |
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It is believed that several lifetimes as a Bodhisattva go into the making of the Buddha, the Enlightened one.
The Bodhisattva has come in many forms - man, monkey, deer, elephant and lion. Whatever his mortal continued ... |
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All living creatures die to be born again , so the Hindus believe. Siddhartha who became the Buddha was no exception. It is believed that several lifetimes as a Bodhisattva go into the making of the Buddha, the continued ... |
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These tales are based on the folklore, legends and ballads of ancient India. We cannot assign a definite date to the Jataka stories. Taking into account archaeological and literary evidence, it appears that the continued ... |
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