Yoga

1922 · Best.-Nr. 7946 — Allahabad: Sudhindra Nath Vasu at the Panini Office 1922. First editions thus. 2 volumes 10x7" continuously paginated 352 and 353-796pp. Modern Indian binding in slightly different shades of soft red leather tooled in gilt with gray spine labels speckled page edges gilt turn ins and black silk endpapers. The binding technique and cheap paper has caused some cracking at front hinges. Few pencil marks in margins scattered light foxing. Housed in cloth slipcases. The first 8 books of the Devi Bhagavatam of Vedavyasa here translated from the Sanskrit to English for the first time by Swami Vijnanananda. This translation appeared as volume XXVI in the Sacred Books of the Hundus series edited by Major B.D. Basu and published in Allahabad. This canonical text for Devi worshippers promotes Bhakti or devotion towards the divine feminine one of the earliest Hindu texts to do so. OCLC cites perhaps 7 physical holdings for this text. From the library of Blanche DeVries and Pierre Bernard. . Sudhindra Nath Vasu at the Panini Office unknown