The Mahabharata

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Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351188760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746

Book Description
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.

The Mahabharatha

Author: Samhita Arni
Publisher: Tara Publishing
ISBN: 9788186211700
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Eleven year old Samhita Arni s beautifully illustrated version of the Mahabharatha is a bold and fresh re-telling of the great epic.

Mahabharata

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Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520227040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
William Buck's stirring retelling of a classic Indian epic--in its original Sanskrit, probably the largest epic ever composed.

The Mahabharata, Volume 1

Author: J. A. B. van Buitenen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226846636
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 546

Book Description
Sanskrit classical epic translated into English.

Mahabharata

Author: Krishna Dharma
Publisher: Torchlight Pub
ISBN: 9781887089135
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 941

Book Description
Cheated of their kingdom and sent into exile by their envious cousins, the Pandavas set off on a fascinating journey. This work recounts the history of the five heroic Pandava brothers. Its includes spiritual themes, and is filled with suspense, intrigue, and wisdom.

The Mahābhārata

Author: Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120816732
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
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.

The Mahabharata, Volume 7

Author: Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226252507
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 851

Book Description
The second-longest poem in world literature, this is an epic tale, replete with legends, romances, theology, and metaphysical doctrine written in Sanskrit. One of the foundational elements of Hindu culture, this work in its entirety consists of 75,000 stanzas in eighteen books, and this volume marks the resumption of its first complete modern English translation.--From book jacket.

Until the Lions

Author: Karthika Nair
Publisher: Archipelago
ISBN: 193981037X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
A dazzling and eloquent reworking of the Mahabharata, one of South Asia's best-loved epics, through nineteen peripheral voices. With daring poetic forms, Karthika Naïr breathes new life into this ancient epic. Karthika Naïr refracts the epic Mahabharata through the voices of nameless soldiers, outcast warriors and handmaidens as well as abducted princesses, tribal queens, and a gender-shifting god. As peripheral figures and silent catalysts take center stage, we get a glimpse of lives and stories buried beneath the dramas of god and nation, heroics and victory - of the lives obscured by myth and history, all too often interchangeable. Until the Lions is a kaleidoscopic, poetic tour de force. It reveals the most intimate threads of desire, greed, and sacrifice in this foundational epic.

The Mahabharata

Author:
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184759444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 797

Book Description
The Greatest Story Ever Told Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins—the Pandavas and the Kouravas—but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers. Thus every possible human emotion features in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. In this superb and widely acclaimed translation of the complete Mahabharata, Bibek Debroy takes us on a great journey with incredible ease.

The Mahabharata

Author: John D. Smith
Publisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 916

Book Description
A new selection and translation of the great epic story of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody conflict, magic and beauty.