The Mahabharata, Volume 7: Book 11: The Book of the Women Book 12: The Book of Peace, Part 1
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (845 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0226252507 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 848 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Readers of the Mahabharata can eagerly look forward to the future volumes of the series, and are greatly indebted to James Fitzgerald for his continued labors to bring the great Indian epic to a modern English audience.” (Whitney Cox South Asia News)"Fitzgerald must now be regarded as among the great Mahabharata scholars of our time. The present volume has been under production for more than twenty years, and is a work of great maturity and meticulousness. Fitzgerald has written a long introduction that is must reading for all scholars of Indian literature and religion. "The resumption of the publicatio
The scenes of mourning in The Book of Women lead into a crisis of conscience that is central to The Book of Peace and, Fitzgerald argues, the entire Mahabharata. One of the foundational elements in Hindu culture, this great work consists of nearly 75,000 stanzas in eighteen books, and this volume marks the much anticipated resumption of its first complete modern English translation. A. B. In this book, the man who has won power in the great war is torn between his own sense of guilt and remorse and the obligation to rule which ultimately he is persuaded to embrace.The Mahabharata is a powerful work that has inspired awe and wonder for centuries. Fitzgerald shows that the portrayal of the womens grief is much more than a sympathetic portrait of the sufferings of war. With a penetrating glimpse into the trauma of war, this volume offers two of its most timely and unforgettable chapters.. With the first three volumes, the late J. Indeed, the theme of The Book of Women is the grief of the women left by warriors slain in battle. Volumes 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 of the series will be published over the next several years.In his introductions to these books, Fitzgerald examines the rhetoric of The Mahabharatas representations of the wars aftermath. Now James Fitzgerald resumes this work with translations of the books that chronicle the wars aftermath: T