Essays on the Mahabharata Motilal Banarsidass four hundred men and women

four hundred men and women turned their backs on a millennium of degradation and slavery

usually speak of vast expanses of time to estimate the periods of creation (srsti)

Men of sight and wisdom almost always fail to save people from the doom that awaits them

Durgadatta Misra

In the present work

Essays on the Mahabharata Motilal Banarsidass four hundred men and womenThis book is a classic study of a monumental work, the Mahabharata, perhaps the largest epic in world literature. It is an epic study of the epic on account of the voluminous size it has itself attained, the kaleidoscopic variety of the themes it covers, the great diversity of approaches it canvasses, and the wide array of contributions it includes, and the high standard of scholarship it achieves. This volume, like the epic it deals with, passed