{"product_id":"vasudevathe-wanderer-prince-sanghadasagani-vacaka-9789361772634","title":"Vasudeva...The Wanderer Prince: Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eVasudeva...The Wanderer Prince discusses mainly the anecdotes\/stories related to Vasudeva, the father of Balaram and Krishna, who were in relation and contemporary of the 21st Tirthankara Neminatha or Arishtanemi. As lucidly pointed out by the author herself, the book concentrates on the journey of Vasudeva involving his wandering from Magadha to the entire North India and even beyond. The stories include his lust for worldly possessions, authority and beautiful women for sensuous pleasure, but all such stories (not so well connected) conclude with spiritual or moral experience and suggestions, which reveal some important aspects of Jaina philosophy and moral values.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHowever, the objective of the present book is altogether different, which presents Vasudeva as a wanderer and in course of his wandering enormous knowledge of geography and different aspects of regional cultural features are provided, which are a tremendous source of cultural history. It is a book dealing with a text of Jaina stories centring around the wandering character of Vasudeva and his interaction both with the mortal human beings and semi-divine Vidhyadharas\/ Vidyadharis to make the stories interesting as well as meaningful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe translation is flawless and the language is chaste making the reading of the book interesting. It is indeed a new approach for the study of ancient Indian texts, which the readers will find absorbing with relevant messages of moving from worldly to spiritual attainment, the ultimate goal of human life. I congratulate the author for brilliant retelling of the stories based on the text Vasudevahindi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor MARUTI NANDAN Pd. TIWARI\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer National Tagore Fellow, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormer Emeritus Professor and Former Head, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDepartment of History of Art, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sanghadasagani Vacaka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9361772635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789361772634\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ratna Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/22\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.69d","brand":"Sanghadasagani Vacaka","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48175732588799,"sku":"9789361772634","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f12b608b-327a-4974-9ed0-c2a71d8dfd53.jpg?v=1771335564","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/vasudevathe-wanderer-prince-sanghadasagani-vacaka-9789361772634","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}