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Sir Edwin Arnold was born on June 10, 1832, at Gravesend, Kent, England.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "Edwin Arnold: Premium Poetry Collection is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) was an English poet and journalist, who is most known for his work, The Light of Asia. The literary task which he set before him was the interpretation in English verse of the life and philosophy of the East. His chief work with this object is The Light of Asia, which was translated into various languages such as Hindi. The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, is in a form of a narrative poem. The book endeavors to describe the life and time of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who after attaining enlightenment became The Buddha, The Awakened One. The book presents his life, character, and philosophy, in a series of verses. It is a free adaptation of the Lalitavistara. A few decades before the book's publication, very little was known outside Asia about the Buddha and Buddhism, the religion which he founded, and which had existed for about twenty-five centuries. Arnold's book was one of the first successful attempts to popularize Buddhism for a Western readership. Table of Contents: The Light of Asia Light of the World; or, The Great Consummation: At Bethlehem Mary Magdalene. The Magus. The Alabaster Box. The Parables. The Love of God and Man. The Great Consummation Indian Poetry The Indian Song of Songs (Hymn to Vishnu -11 Sargas) Miscellaneous Oriental Poems: The Rajpoot Wife King Saladin The Caliph's Draught Hindoo Funeral Song Song of the Serpent-charmers Song of the Flour-mill Taza ba Taza The Mussulman Paradise Dedication of a Poem From the Sanskrit The Rajah's Ride Two Books From The Iliad Of India "The Great Journey." "The Entry Into Heaven." "Night of Slaughter." The Morning Prayer. Proverbial Wisdom From the Shlokas of the Hitopade?a The Song Celestial or Bhagavad-Gita (from the Mahâbhârata) Potiphar's Wife
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The Light Of Asia by Edwin Arnold is a classic in the form of a narrative poem. The book follows the life of Prince Gautama Siddhartha, who after enlightenment became known as The Buddha, The Awakened One.
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Part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata the Bhagavadgita probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him Explanatory footnotes The Bhagavadgita is part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata and it is one of the major religious documents of the world occupying in Hinduism a position not unlike the Sermon on the Mount in Christianity One of the most celebrated treasures of world literature as well it is in the form of a poetic dialogue between the epic s hero Arjuna and his friend Krishna believed to be an incarnation of God The dialogue which takes place on the eve of an historic battle probes the nature of God and what man should do to reach him As the Bhagavadgita unfolds this majestic poem provides a fascinating synopsis of the religious thought and experience of India through the ages This edition offers the classic English verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold 1832 1904 long admired for its evocation of the true feeling of the original poetry Written in the form of a poetic dialogue it probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him providing a fascinating synopsis of the religious thought and experience of India through the ages This edition offers the classic English verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold 18321904 Explanatory footnotes
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The Bhagavad Gita is a book within the great epic called the Mahabharata, or sometimes referred to as the Story of the Bharat (India). The Bhagavad Gita is the sixth book of the Mahabharata. People often refer to it as just the Gita. The Mahabharata is made up of eighteen books that all contain poems which tell a story. The main plot of the Mahabharata is to do with the conflict between two sets of paternal cousins that vie for the throne of Hastinapura. This was a kingdom in the northern region of modern day Delhi. Each group of cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, both felt they were entitled to power over Hastinapura. The Kauravas had first taken over the land and the Pandavas pleaded with the eldest of the Kauravas, Duryodhana, to give them back their kingdom or at least a share of the land. Duryodhana did not agree to their demands and refused to give them any share of the land. This was what set off the beginning of the war between the two groups of cousins. The Bhagavad Gita is known as the Song of God. It is an ancient Hindu scripture that is believed to be the universal book of thoughts and knowledge. The Sanskrit expresses practical thoughts and instructions for various life practices such as Vedanta, Action, Devotion and Yoga. Many intelligent people have been influenced by Bhagavad Gita over the centuries. Not all of them were firm believers of Hinduism either. Bhagavad Gita has actually been a universal scripture that touches people of many different faiths and religions. The translation of the Gita translated by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904) has been one of the most popular and widely respected. Even to this day his translation is widely read and enjoyed around the world as it comes in original form. This edition of the Bhagavad Gita will be liked by first time readers of the Gita and those interested in Hinduism. This edition has an introduction to the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita. Many do not know that the Gita is part of the Mahabarata and this edition explains that the Gita is part of the great Epic the Mahabharata. The book also contains an introduction to the characters of the Gita. The chapters Dedication Introduction The Mahabharata The Bhagavad Gita Introduction to the Bhagavad Gita Arjuna Krishna Characters of the Bhagavad Gita Preface by Sir Edwin Arnold Chapter 1: Of the distress of Arjuna Chapter 2: The book of doctrines Chapter 3: Virtue in work Chapter 4: Of the religion of knowledge Chapter 5: Of religion by renouncing fruit of works Chapter 6: Of religion of self restraint Chapter 7: Of religion by discernment Chapter 8: Of religion by devotion to the one supreme God Chapter 9: Of religion by the kingly knowledge and the kingly mystery Chapter 10: Of religion by the heavenly perfections Chapter 11: Of the manifesting of the one and manifold Chapter 12: Of the religion of faith Chapter 13: Of religion by separation of matter and spirit Chapter 14: Of religion by separation from the qualities Chapter 15: Of religion by attaining the supreme Chapter 16: Of the separateness of the divine and the undivine Chapter 17: Of religion by the threefold kinds of faith Chapter 18: Of religion by deliverance and renunciation
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The 1899 lynching of Sam Hose in Newnan, Georgia, was one of the earliest and most gruesome events in a tragic chapter of U.S. history. Hose was a black laborer accused of killing Alfred Cranford, a white farmer, and raping his wife. The national media closely followed the manhunt and Hoses capture. An armed mob intercepted Hoses Atlanta-bound train and took the prisoner back to Newnan. There, in front of a large gathering on a Sunday afternoon, Hose was mutilated and set on fire. His body was dismembered and pieces of it were kept by souvenir hunters. Born and raised twenty miles from Newnan, Edwin T. Arnold was troubled and fascinated by the fact that this horrific chain of events had been largely shut out of local public memory. In "What Virtue There Is in Fire," Arnold offers the first in-depth examination of the lynching of Sam Hose. Arnold analyzes newspapers, letters, and speeches to understand reactions to this brutal incident, without trying to resolve the still-disputed facts of the crime. Firsthand accounts were often contradictory, and portrayals of Hose differed starkly?from "black beast" to innocent martyr. Arnold traces how different groups interpreted and co-opted the story for their own purposes through the years. Reflecting on recent efforts to remember the lynching of Sam Hose, Arnold offers the portrait of a place still trying to reconcile itself, a century later, to its painful past.
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Sir Edwin Arnold was born on June 10, 1832, at Gravesend, Kent, England.
Arnold received his bachelor's and master's degrees from Oxford University in 1854 and 1856 respectively and became principal in 1856 of a British college near Bombay.
There he studied Indian, Turkish, and Persian languages and published Education in India: A Letter (1860) and a translation from Sanskrit, The Book of Good Counsels (1861).
He returned to England in 1861 and for 28 years did editorial work for the Daily Telegraph. Arnold's extensive travels are reflected in many of his writings. His works include India Revisited (1886); numerous books of poetry, history, and travel inspired by the Near East, India, and Japan; and a novel of India, based on fact, The Queen's Justice (1899). Arnold died in London, Mar. 24, 1904.
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He was a founder member of the Mahabodhi Society of India.
Sir Edwin was married three times. His first wife was Katherine Elizabeth Biddulph, of London, who died in 1864. Next he married Jennie Channing of Boston who died in 1889. In his later years Arnold resided for some time in Japan and his third wife, Tama Kurokawa, was Japanese.