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020 | _a9780143425175 | ||
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245 | _aMahabharata: Volume 4 | ||
250 | _a1st ed. | ||
260 |
_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books Ltd _c2010 |
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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 | ||
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