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Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling by Carole Satyamurti

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Indian and Hindu Texts

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; 1 edition (February 22, 2016)
ISBN: 978-0393352498
Paperback / Hardcover: 928 pages
About: Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, “a hundred times more interesting” than the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes Wendy Doniger in the introduction, the Mahabharata is a timeless work that evokes a world of myth, passion, and warfare while exploring eternal questions of duty, love, and spiritual freedom. A seminal Hindu text, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, it is also one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilization...

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