Mahabharata

Name: Mahabharata
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ISBN: 9780520227040

ISBN-10: 0520227042

ISBN-13: 9780520227040

Edition: 2000

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

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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…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 11/14/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

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