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020 _a9780143425175
082 _a294.592304521 D3541 M
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245 _aMahabharata: Volume 4
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew Delhi
_bPenguin Books Ltd
_c2010
300 _a585
500 _aThis definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. 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 on a great journey with incredible ease.
650 _aEpic poetry Sanskrit
650 _aHinduism
700 _aBibek Debroy
942 _cREF
999 _c1324
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