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Mahabharata: a modern retelling

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London W. W. Norton & Company 2015Description: xxxviii, 888 pISBN:
  • 9780393081756
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.914 S2M2
Summary: “Astonishing. . . . [Satyamurti’s Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive . . . as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse.”—Vinay Dharwadker Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, “a hundred times more interesting” than the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes Wendy Doniger in the introduction, the Mahabharata is a timeless work that evokes a world of myth, passion, and warfare while exploring eternal questions of duty, love, and spiritual freedom. A seminal Hindu text, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, it is also one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilization. Innovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole Satyamurti’s English retelling covers all eighteen books of the Mahabharata. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope. http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294985235
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Table of Contents:

PART I: The Book of the Beginning
PART II: The Book of the Assembly Hall
PART III: The Book of the Forest
PART IV: The Book of Virata
PART V: The Book of Perseverance
PART VI: The Book of Bhishma
PART VII: The Book of Drona
PART VIII: The Book of Karna
PART IX: The Book of Shalya
PART X: The Book of the Night Attack
PART XI: The Book of the Women
PART XII: The Book of Peace
PART XIII: The Book of Instruction
PART XIV: The Book of the Horse Sacrifice
PART XV: The Book of the Hermitage
PART XVI: The Book of the Clubs
PART XVII and PART XVIII: The Book of the Final Journey and the Ascent to Heaven

“Astonishing. . . . [Satyamurti’s Mahabharata] brings [the] past alive . . . as though it were a novel in finely crafted verse.”—Vinay Dharwadker
Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, “a hundred times more interesting” than the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes Wendy Doniger in the introduction, the Mahabharata is a timeless work that evokes a world of myth, passion, and warfare while exploring eternal questions of duty, love, and spiritual freedom. A seminal Hindu text, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, it is also one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilization.
Innovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole Satyamurti’s English retelling covers all eighteen books of the Mahabharata. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope.

http://books.wwnorton.com/books/detail.aspx?id=4294985235

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