Mahabharata Book Six (Volume 1): Bhishma (Clay Sanskrit Library) |
 enlarge | Author: Vyasa
Creator: Alex Cherniak
Publisher: NYU Press
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Media: Hardcover
Edition: Volume One
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 611
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0814716962
Dewey Decimal Number: 808
EAN: 9780814716960
ASIN: 0814716962
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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Bhishma, the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic The Mahabharata, narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous Bhagavadgita (The Song of the Lord), presented here within its original epic context. In this bible of Indian civilization the charioteer Krishna empowers his disciple Arjuna to resolve his personal dilemma: whether to follow his righteous duty as a warrior and slay his opponent relatives in the just battle, or to abstain from fighting and renounce the warrior code to which he is born.
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Mahabharata Book Six September 1, 2008
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Though there are English condensations of the Mahabharata (William Buck's is good), this series seems to be the only full-length English version accessible to and usable by general readers. It is being produced by and for scholars, with Sanskrit transliteration on each facing page, but the apparatus is helpful even for nonspecialists.
This volume is especially valuable as containing the Bhagavad Gita, often published separately but here appearing in its original dramatic and mythic context.
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