Author: TRS Sharma
Eminent Contributors/
Translator(s)/ Editors(s): TRS Sharma
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 389
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788126026715
Description
This volume is a collection of essays that attempts to exemplify the protean nature of Vyasa’s Mahabharata. Vyasa, apart from his being both a character and a virtual narrator who manages his narrations through several voices, had seemingly many strongly-felt moral concerns close to his heart. The essays presented here explore many a vexing question, the ethical and the epistemic concerns, issues of gender, ‘caste’ and metaphysical ‘evil’ that the epic raises.
The volume also addresses the question of how each regional language looks upon the epic as a contested site and works out its own form of appropriation, its variations in theme, plot, and character. The essays trace the interpretive changes made in different versions of the epic in other Indian languages and attempt to contribute to our sense of the epic as something composite, made up of multiple texts/contexts, and put together under multiple perspectives.
The well-focused, learned articles of this volume project some of the recent reflections and variations on the ever enigmatic, ever-haunting Mahabharata that is deeply interwoven into the culture of the land.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Many Makers, Many Texts/Contexts
TRS SHARMA
The Human Universal in the Mahabharata
R N DANDEKAR
Socio-Cultural Milieu of the Mahabharata: An Age of Change
G C PANDE
Architectonics of the Mahabharata and the Place of Legends in its Structure
K KUNJUNNI RAJA
Dvaipayana, Poet of Being and Becoming
J L MEHTA
The Concept of Anrshamsya in the Mahabharata
MUKUND LATH
Genetic Episode of the Pandavas: Some Remarks
S G KANTAWALA
Imaging Vengeance: Amba and Draupadi in the Mahabharata
JANAKI SREEDHARAN
The Concept of Apaddharma and the Moral Dilemma of Politics in the Mahabharata
ASHOK CHOUSALKAR
The Mahabharata: A Reading in Political Structuring
PRAFULLA KUMAR MOHANTY
Learning in the Labyrinth: Irony, Contingency and the question of Responsibility in the texts of the Mahabharata
D VENKAT RAO
Why did Bhima Wed Hidimba? A Comparative Perspective on Marriage to the Other
PAULA RICHMAN
Whose Mahabharat? A Point of View
VRINDA NABAR
Defending the Sacred in the Age of Atrocities: On Translating Dharamvir Bharati’s Andha Yug
ALOK BHALLA
The Mahabharata and the Marathi Novel: Textual Strategies
HARISHCHANDRA THORAT
Buddhadeva Bose’s Reading of the Mahabharata
AMIYA DEV
Draupadi as Interpreted in Assamese Literature
MALINEE GOSWAMI
Sarala Dasa’s Mahabharata: A Supermyth
G K DAS
Fiction and Reception: Reconstructions of the Mahabharata. In Malayalam
P P RAVEENDRAN
One Story, Many Texts: Conceptualising a Seed Text in Epics Retold
SREEDEVI K. NAIR
Kumaravyasa Bharata: A Folk perspective
KRISHNAMURTHY HANUR
“Jhug Jaayen Vaarta Aage Ha”: Oral Versions of the Mahabharata
C N RAMACHANDRAN
The Old Konkani Bharata
ROCKY V. MIRANDA
Epic Mediations: Text, Book and Authority in the Organization of the Mahabharata
ARJUN MAHEY
Notes on Contributors