Tag: Mahabharata

Free Download Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, "The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: Book 1 Adi Parva"
English | ISBN: 153535402X | 2016 | 524 pages | EPUB | 1072 KB
The Mahabharata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana. Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kauravas and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains much philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas.

Free Download Alf Hiltebeitel, "World of Wonders: The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa"
English | ISBN: 0197538223 | 2021 | 368 pages | PDF | 36 MB
In World of Wonders, Alf Hiltebeitel addresses the Mahabharata and its supplement, the Harivamsa, as a single literary composition. Looking at the work through the critical lens of the Indian aesthetic theory of rasa, "juice, essence, or taste," he argues that the dominant rasa of these two texts is adbhutarasa, the "mood of wonder." While the Mahabharata signposts whole units of the text as "wondrous" in its table of contents, the Harivamsa foregrounds a stepped-up term for wonder (ascarya) that drives home the point that Vishnu and Krishna are one.

Free Download Lavanya Vemsani, "Feminine Journeys of the Mahabharata: Hindu Women in History, Text, and Practice"
English | ISBN: 3030731642 | 2021 | 281 pages | AZW3 | 732 KB
The Mahabharata preserves powerful journeys of women recognized as the feminine divine and the feminine heroic in the larger culture of India. Each journey upholds the unique aspects of women’s life. This book analytically examines the narratives of eleven women from the Mahabharata in the historical context as well as in association with religious and cultural practices. Lavanya Vemsani brings together history, myth, religion, and practice to arrive at a comprehensive understanding of the history of Hindu women, as well as their significance within religious Indian culture. Additionally, Vemsani provides important perspective for understanding the enduring legacy of these women in popular culture and modern society.

Free Download Anirban Bhattacharjee, "Contemporaneity of the Mahabharata Narrative: Epic of the Moment"
English | ISBN: 1032849568 | 2024 | 248 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Notwithstanding its renowned comprehensive narrative encapsulation of the Indic culture, the Mahabharata keeps on posing a challenge to its contemporary readers: how do we relate to something over two-millennia old in today’s context without freezing it in time? This volume looks at the problem from diverse periods and standpoints and shows us that this challenge is, in fact, a legacy of the Mahabharata and the responses to this challenge are what makes the text ever-contemporary to different readers of different times and positions.

Free Download Simon Brodbeck, "Krishna’s Lineage: The Harivamsha of Vyasa’s Mahabharata"
English | ISBN: 0190279176 | 2019 | 462 pages | AZW3 | 2 MB
Forming the final part of the Sanskrit Mahabharata, the Harivamsha’s main business is to supply narrative details about the great god Vishnu’s avatar Krishna Vasudeva, who has been a comparatively minor character in the previous parts of the Mahabharata, despite having taken centre stage in the Bhagavad Gita.

Free Download Meena Arora Nayak, "Evil in the Mahabharata"
English | ISBN: 0199477744 | 2018 | 376 pages | AZW3 | 563 KB
Good and evil, loyalty and treachery, faith and doubt, honour and ignominy–the Mahabharata has served as a primer for codes of conduct of generations of Hindus. Over time, the epic has also fascinated those who love a tale well told. In its telling, however, the story has lost much of its richness and nuance, and the characters have become one-dimenssional cut-outs–either starkly good or irredeemably evil.

Free Download Sudipta Bhawmik, "Dwapar Katha: The Stories of the Mahabharata"
English | ISBN: 9356995699 | 2024 | 608 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download Devdutt Pattanaik, "What Came First: The Ramayana or the Mahabharata?"
English | 2016 | pages: 14 | ASIN: B0721X38YM | EPUB | 0,3 mb
Itihas means this is how it was, this is how it is, and this is how it will continue to be. It means history, but it also means timeless. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata form a rich tapestry of Indian itihas.