CONTENTS

Preface

Vedic Hymns

Sermon at the Deer Park
Siddhartha Gautama Buddha

Bhagavad Gita

Arthasastra
Kautilya

Poems of Love and War

Mahavamsa

The Perfect Bride
Dandin

Gitagovinda
Jayadeva

Songs of Kabir
Kabir

Sacred Writings of the Sikhs

Akbar Nama
Abu-l Fazl

Hanuman Chalisa

On the Burning of Widows
Ram Mohan Roy

Govinda Samanta
Lal Behari Day

Gitanjali
Rabindranath Tagore

Hind Swaraj
Mohandas K. Gandhi

Muna and Madan
Lakshmiprasad Devkota

What Is India?
Jawaharlal Nehru

Waiting for the Mahatma
R.K. Narayan

All Is Burning
Jean Arasanayagam

Reflection

Bibliography