Mahabharata

Name: Mahabharata
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ISBN: 9780520273023

ISBN-10: 0520273028

ISBN-13: 9780520273023

Edition: 3rd 2012

Authors: William Buck, B. A. van Nooten, Shirley Triest

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Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as theRamayanaandMahabharata,two Sanskrit verse epics written some 2,000 years ago.InRamayana(written by a poet known to us as Valmiki), William Buck has retold the story of Prince Rama--with all its nobility of spirit, courtly intrigue, heroic renunciation, fierce battles, and triumph of good over evil--in a length and manner that will make the great Indian epics accessible to the contemporary reader.The same is true for theMahabharata--in its original Sanskrit, probably the longest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of a dynastic struggle, between the Kurus…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 6/12/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 442
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.82" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

William Buck(1933-1970) was a Sanskritist, devoting his life's work to modern retellings of theRamayana, Mahabharata,and the unfinishedHarivamsa.