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The Bhagavad Gita: Or, The Song Celestial Translated by Edwin ArnoldThe Bhagavad Gita, usually considered part of the sixth book of the Mahabharata (dating from about 400 or 300 B.C.), is a central text of Hinduism, a philosphical dialog be… more

The Indian Stories of Francis William Bain (b. 1863, d. 1940) were published early in the 20th century. They purport to be translations of unidentified manuscripts. However, these books are not directly derived from Hindu texts or tradition… more

Francis William Bain (1863–1940) was a British writer of fantasy stories that he “claimed “were translated from Sanskrit. The first of these was A Digit of the Moon (1898), which Bain claimed was his translation of the eighth part of sixte… more

The Indian Stories of Francis William Bain (b. 1863, d. 1940) were published early in the 20th century. They purport to be translations of unidentified manuscripts. However, these books are not directly derived from Hindu texts or tradition… more

To quote the New York Times Book Review, “the stories are not easy to describe, but it has been said of them that we have nothing in English literature at once so tender, so passionate, so melancholy and so wise.” NY Times Book Review…N… more

About Book:In The Great God’s Hair Translated From The Original Manuscript By F. W. Bain.About Author:Francis William Bain (29 April 1863 – 3 March 1940) was a British writer of fantasy stories that he claimed were translated from Sanskrit.

Francis William Bain (1863–1940) was a British writer of fantasy stories that he “claimed” were translated from Sanskrit. What came out years later was that his works were all originals and that his remarkable detailed Indian stories were m… more

I could almost persuade myself, that others will like this little fable as much as I do: so curiously simple, and yet so strangely profound is its delicate epitome of the old old story, the course of true love, which never did run smooth.