The Mahabharata The Book Of The Beginning

Author : Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226846636
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata, Volume 1 written by Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanskrit classical epic translated into English.

Author : James Whitby Earl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983447221
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beginning the Mahābhārata written by James Whitby Earl and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation. A readers guide to the frame stories that structure this classic Indian epic poem.

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 9351188760
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata written by and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though the basic plot is widely known, there is much more to the epic than the dispute between Kouravas and Pandavas that led to the battle in Kurukshetra. It has innumerable sub-plots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, and it has rarely been translated in full, given its formidable length of 80,000 shlokas or couplets. This magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation of the epic is based on the Critical Edition compiled at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. * The final volume ends the instructions of the Anushasana Parva. The horse sacrifice is held, and Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Kunti, Vidura and Sanjaya leave for the forest. Krishna and Balarama die as the Yadavas fight among themselves. The Pandavas leave on the great journey with the famous companion—Dharma disguised as a dog. Refusing to abandon the dog, Yudhishthira goes to heaven in his physical body and sees all the Kurus and the Pandavas are already there. * Every conceivable human emotion figures in the Mahabharata, the reason why the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. In this lucid, nuanced and confident translation, Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers.

Author : Vyasa
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226846484
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata written by Vyasa and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. K. Narayan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022605747X
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata written by R. K. Narayan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Narayan makes this treasury of Indian folklore and mythology readily accessible to the general reader . . . he captures the spirit of the narrative.”—Library Journal The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes, fearing that doing so would invite a disastrous fate upon their house. Covering everything from creation to destruction, this ancient poem remains an indelible part of Hindu culture and a landmark in ancient literature. Centuries of listeners and readers have been drawn to The Mahabharata, which began as disparate oral ballads and grew into a sprawling epic. The modern version is famously long, and at more than 1.8 million words—seven times the combined lengths of the Iliad and Odyssey—it can be incredibly daunting. But contemporary readers have a much more accessible entry point to this important work, thanks to R. K. Narayan’s masterful, elegant translation and abridgement of the poem. Now with a new foreword by Wendy Doniger, as well as a concise character and place guide and a family tree, The Mahabharata is ready for a new generation of readers. Narayan ably distills a tale that is both traditional and constantly changing. He draws from both scholarly analysis and creative interpretation and vividly fuses the spiritual with the secular. Through this balance he has produced a translation that is not only clear, but graceful, one that stands as its own story as much as an adaptation of a larger work.

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520227040
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mahabharata written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Buck's stirring retelling of a classic Indian epic--in its original Sanskrit, probably the largest epic ever composed.

Author : Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120816732
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahābhārata written by Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index correlating the verses with the original Sanskrit text.

Author : John D. Smith
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata written by John D. Smith and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2009-07-28 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new selection from the national epic of India. Originally composed in Sanskrit sometime between 400 BC and 400 AD, The Mahabharata--with one hundred thousand stanzas of verse--is one of the longest poems in existence. At the heart of the saga is a conflict between two branches of a royal family whose feud culminates in a titanic eighteen-day battle. Exploring such timeless subjects as dharma (duty), artha (purpose), and kama (pleasure) in a mythic world of warfare, magic, and beauty, this is a magnificent and legendary Hindu text of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent."--Publisher's description.

Author : Karthika Nair
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9352772830
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Until the Lions written by Karthika Nair and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Until the Lions, Karthika Nair retells the Mahabharata through multiple voices. Her poems capture the epic through the lenses of nameless soldiers, outcast warriors and handmaidens but also abducted princesses, tribal queens and a gender-shifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take centre stage, we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the edifices of god and nation, heroes and victory; a glimpse of the price paid for myth and history--all too often interchangeable.

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226846484
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mahabharata, Volume 1 written by and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic brothers, the Pandavas, and their one hundred contentious cousins for rule of the land. This is the first volume in what will ultimately become a multi volume edition encompassing all eighteen books.