The Crystal Bowl of Life
If you were born in 1480 in India, what would you have witnessed if you were to live for 80 years? This book is the first of a series of historical novels of very fine quality - two novels in every book - about the time between 1480 and 1560 in different parts of the world, giving a panoramic view of society and human life. We are starting with India …
The lives of two great men of the time are here presented, in two separate novels, by two authors.
The first one is Zahir-ud-din Mahomed, commonly called Babar, Emperor of India, the first of the dynasty of the Great Moghuls. He was a poet, painter, soldier, athlete, gentleman, musician, beggar and King. He lived the most adventurous life a man ever lived, in the end of the fifteenth, the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; and he kept a record of it. Babar brought with him into India his own religion, the Islam. He was very powerful and profoundly soulful. The Crystal Bowl of Life is the promise of the Fullness of Life, of love, joy, and happiness, and of sorrow and death …
The second great man of this book is St. Francis Xavier, who was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, commonly called Jesuits. He was known as the 'Apostle of the Indies' as he was ordered by the King of Portugal, Joam III, to restore Christianity among the Portuguese settlers there. He achieved much more than that …
Two civilisations introduce themselves almost at the same time into India. It is exciting to discover in what fashion and to what purpose …
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The Crystal Bowl of Life
If you were born in 1480 in India, what would you have witnessed if you were to live for 80 years? This book is the first of a series of historical novels of very fine quality - two novels in every book - about the time between 1480 and 1560 in different parts of the world, giving a panoramic view of society and human life. We are starting with India …
The lives of two great men of the time are here presented, in two separate novels, by two authors.
The first one is Zahir-ud-din Mahomed, commonly called Babar, Emperor of India, the first of the dynasty of the Great Moghuls. He was a poet, painter, soldier, athlete, gentleman, musician, beggar and King. He lived the most adventurous life a man ever lived, in the end of the fifteenth, the beginning of the sixteenth centuries; and he kept a record of it. Babar brought with him into India his own religion, the Islam. He was very powerful and profoundly soulful. The Crystal Bowl of Life is the promise of the Fullness of Life, of love, joy, and happiness, and of sorrow and death …
The second great man of this book is St. Francis Xavier, who was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus, commonly called Jesuits. He was known as the 'Apostle of the Indies' as he was ordered by the King of Portugal, Joam III, to restore Christianity among the Portuguese settlers there. He achieved much more than that …
Two civilisations introduce themselves almost at the same time into India. It is exciting to discover in what fashion and to what purpose …
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| ISBN-13: | 9783942676007 |
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| Publisher: | Auroralit Edition |
| Publication date: | 10/07/2010 |
| Series: | Petya Lehmann's Historical Series , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 283 KB |
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