Tales of Love and War from the Mahabharat

Author: G D Khosla
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1997
Language: English
Pages: 146
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195634667

Description

Without losing any of its traditional aesthetic power, this work encapsulates 100,000 verse epic in short tales in modern idiom, making it easily accessible to a new generation of readers.

The Mahabharat as long been recognized as India's great epic, fascinating generation after generation with its story of the fratricidal war of succession between the Pandav brothers and Duryodhan. With its strong passions and bitter slaughter, the ethical questions raised in the Mahabharat have been a constant source of inspiration and debate throughout Indian history.