{"product_id":"siṃhi-the-becoming-सिंही-siṃhi-learn-sanskrit-learn-life","title":"Siṃhī: The Becoming (सिंही Siṃhī: Learn Sanskrit. Learn Life.)","description":"There was in a dense and vast forest a sweet and beautiful young lioness.\nSo the story begins — the way the old stories begin. What it opens onto is as deep as it is long.\nA cub loses her mother in the tall grass and is driven by a storm into a cave, where a snake named Sarpa keeps the dark. He does not tell her it will be all right. He tells her a story. And inside his story is another story, and inside that one, another still — because that is how this tradition has always carried what matters: nested tellings, teller to listener, around fires, for thousands of years.\nIt is a novel about what a parent gives a child before leaving — and what a story can hold that a single life cannot.\nWhat follows is her whole becoming. A tortoise older than the valley. A mouse who stops her mid-hunt with a single name. A bird with a broken wing and an unbroken vow. Fire, and the goddess who walks out of it. A charioteer's song on the morning of a war. Thirteen tellings, each complete in itself, each opening the next — carrying her from lost cub to the lioness the valley will one day tell stories about.\nThe old stories live inside it the way they have always lived — the churning of the ocean, Ekalavya's thumb, Garuḍa's vow, the Bhagavad Gītā — met not as mythology but as medicine, given at the moment the listener needs them. Sanskrit mantras close many of the tellings, unexplained and unhurried, the way a fire is banked for morning: oṃ bhūr bhuvaḥ svaḥ…\nWatership Down meets Siddhartha. For readers of Ursula K. Le Guin, of Clarissa Pinkola Estés, of the epics themselves.\nWritten and illustrated by Mateo Rose.\nसिंही Siṃhī\nBeginning · Becoming · Receiving · Carrying · Finding · Awakening\nEach book complete on its own.\nA story you can live in. A language you can keep.\nBegin where you are.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0GSWV8L6Z\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.B0GSWV8L6Z.A\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Acceptable\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Rose, Mateo\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing  age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43868586672189,"sku":"BVV.B0GSWV8L6Z.A","price":20.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/B0GSWV8L6Z-0.jpg?v=1792621076","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/si%e1%b9%83hi-the-becoming-%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%82%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%80-si%e1%b9%83hi-learn-sanskrit-learn-life","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}