Mahabharata, Volume 7 Book 11: the Book of the Women Book 12: the Book of Peace, Part 1

Name: Mahabharata, Volume 7 Book 11: the Book of the Women Book 12: the Book of Peace, Part 1
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ISBN: 9780226252506

ISBN-10: 0226252507

ISBN-13: 9780226252506

Edition: 2004

Authors: James L. Fitzgerald, James L. Fitzgerald

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What is found in this epic may be elsewhere; What is not in this epic is nowhere else. —from The Mahabharata The second longest poem in world literature, The Mahabharata is an epic tale, replete with legends, romances, theology, and metaphysical doctrine written in Sanskrit. One of the foundational elements in Hindu culture, this great work consists of nearly 75,000 stanzas in eighteen books, and this volume marks the much anticipated resumption of its first complete modern English translation. With the first three volumes, the late J. A. B. van Buitenen had taken his translation up to the threshold of the great war that is central to the epic. Now James Fitzgerald resumes this work with…

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List price: $130.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/15/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 848
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.00" tall
Weight: 3.058
Language: English



Preface


List of Abbreviations


General Introduction: The Translation Resumed


THE MAHaBHaRATA Translated


Book 11: The Book of the Women


Introduction


Contents


Summaries and Translation


Book 12: The Book of Peace, Part One, Chapters 1-167


Introduction


Contents


Summaries and Translation


Appendixes


Notes to the Translations of Books 11 and 12


Glossary of Sanskrit Words


Concordance of Chapters in the Critical Edition and the Bombay Edition: Book 11 and Book 12, Part One


References


Index of Proper Names