Mahabharata An English Version Based on Selected Verses

Name: Mahabharata An English Version Based on Selected Verses
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ISBN: 9780231110556

ISBN-10: 0231110553

ISBN-13: 9780231110556

Edition: 1998 (Revised)

Authors: Chakravarthi Narasimhan

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The Mahabharata is the longest and, in some ways, the greatest epic poem in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. The shortest recension of the Sanskrit version consists of some 88,000 verses. The main narrative, however, is the story of the rivalry between the cousins, the Pandavas and the Kauravas, which culminates in the great battle of Kuruksetra. Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan here introduces and presents the portions dealing with this story and its central theme of the universal destruction and evil of war. His prose translation of approximately 4000 verses is supplemented…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 11/5/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 254
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.84" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English