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E-BOOK.PDF: Mahabharata

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Indian and Hindu Texts

WE possess but very little of true Epic Poetry, and the wonder is that we should possess any. Of course if we define an epic as a poem which in the form of continuous narrative celebrates the achievements of one or more heroic personages of history or tradition, any poet may write, an epos. But if by epos are meant early unwritten narrative poems celebrating incidents of heroic tradition, we can easily understand why their number should be so small as it is. Strictly speaking, I know of one true enic poem only, the fealewala of the Fins, and possibly the Kalewipoeg of the Estonians...

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