The Mahabharata
$31.45
- Paperback
912 pages
- Release Date
29 June 2009
Summary
The Mahabharata: A Timeless Epic of Ancient India
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, revealing a mythic world of bloody conflict, magic, and beauty. It holds immense importance in the culture of the Indian subcontinent and stands as a major text of Hinduism. Its exploration of human goals—artha (purpose), kama (pleasure), dharma (duty), and moksha (liberation)—occurs within a long-standing tradition. The epic attempts to explain the relationship…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140446814 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140446818 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | John D. Smith, Vyasa, J.D. Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 912 |
| Release Date: | 29 June 2009 |
| Weight: | 621g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 42mm |
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About The Author
John D. Smith
John D. Smith was born in Nottingham in 1946. He attended Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he read Sanskrit and Hindi. In the early 1970s he held a research fellowship at Christ’s College, Cambridge; this was followed by nine years as lecturer in Sanskrit at the School of Oriental and African Studies in the University of London. In 1984 he returned to Cambridge, where he is now emeritus Reader of Sanskrit. He has worked on both Sanskrit and modern Rajasthani, and his publications include The Visa?adevarasa- a restoration of the text (Cambridge, 1976) and The epic of Pabuji- a study, transcription and translation (Cambridge, 1991).
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