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The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives

Meena Nayak

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Description:Almost three thousand years ago, a highway robber wrote one of the world's greatest epics. He is now known to us as Valmiki. In the fifth century BC, a beautiful devadasi persuaded a king to give up his violent dreams of military conquest and become a Buddhist, thus saving thousands of lives. She was Amrapali, and he was Ajatashatru, the king of Magadh. In the thirteenth century, a time when women rarely played a role in public life, Razia, Sultan of Delhi, became the first woman ruler in the Indian subcontinent. And closer to our times, in the court of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, there lived a magician so great that his music could cause lamps to light up. His name was Tansen.Such characters from India's past are often more colourful that the wildest creations of fiction. In these twenty-four stories, Meena Arora Nayak takes us back in time to an India where life was lived according to extraordinary codes; where a emperor's whim could mean the difference between life and death; where a single transgression could lead to banishment, or worse; and where an individual could change the entire course of a civilization. Filled with conflicts of love and honour, of faith and duty, of loyalty and liberty; this book is living history at its best.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives. To get started finding The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 240

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Penguin Group

Release: 2004

ISBN: 0143334824

Description: Almost three thousand years ago, a highway robber wrote one of the world's greatest epics. He is now known to us as Valmiki. In the fifth century BC, a beautiful devadasi persuaded a king to give up his violent dreams of military conquest and become a Buddhist, thus saving thousands of lives. She was Amrapali, and he was Ajatashatru, the king of Magadh. In the thirteenth century, a time when women rarely played a role in public life, Razia, Sultan of Delhi, became the first woman ruler in the Indian subcontinent. And closer to our times, in the court of the great Mughal Emperor Akbar, there lived a magician so great that his music could cause lamps to light up. His name was Tansen.Such characters from India's past are often more colourful that the wildest creations of fiction. In these twenty-four stories, Meena Arora Nayak takes us back in time to an India where life was lived according to extraordinary codes; where a emperor's whim could mean the difference between life and death; where a single transgression could lead to banishment, or worse; and where an individual could change the entire course of a civilization. Filled with conflicts of love and honour, of faith and duty, of loyalty and liberty; this book is living history at its best.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives. To get started finding The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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