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The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic by R. K. Narayan

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Indian and Hindu Texts

Publisher: University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (February 12, 2016)
ISBN: 978-0226051659
Paperback / Hardcover: 216 pages
About: The Mahabharata tells a story of such violence and tragedy that many people in India refuse to keep the full text in their homes fearing that if they do they will invite a disastrous fate upon their house Covering everything from creation to destruction this ancient poem remains an indelible part of Hindu culture and a landmark in ancient literature Centuries of listeners and readers have been drawn to The Mahabharata which began as disparate oral ballads and grew into a sprawling epic The modern version is famously long and at more than 1 8 million words seven times the combined lengths of the Iliad and Odyssey it can be incredibly daunting Contemporary readers have a much more accessible entry point to this important work thanks to R K Narayan s masterful translation and abridgement of the poem Now with a new foreword by Wendy Doniger as well as a concise character and place guide and a family tree...

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