After the War: : the last books of the Mahabharata / Wendy Doniger

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doniger, Wendy, author.

Series:

Oxford Academic

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--Mahabharata.

India.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

First Edition

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022

Summary:

This new translation of the end of the great Sanskrit epic depicts the final years of the surviving heroes, their debates about the justice of war and the meaning of life, their ultimate deaths, and their experiences of heaven and hell. The men now contemplate the ways in which they had violated the warrior code, and the women lament the conditions under which they had conceived their sons, often against their will, and the tragic and often unjust deaths of those sons. Finally, in heaven, enemies are reconciled, wounds healed, and deaths undone, as the heroes regain the divine natures that had been merely suspended during their sojourn on earth. The author, a distinguished translator of Sanskrit texts, has put the text into clear, flowing, contemporary prose, with a comprehensive but unintrusive critical apparatus. This book will delight general readers and enlighten students of Indian civilization and of great world literature.

Contents:

Contents: Acknowledgments - Introduction - The Translation - Book Fifteen, Ashramavasika Parvan, The Book of Living in the Ashram: Chapters 26-47 - Book Sixteen, Mausala Parvan, The Book of the Battle of the Clubs - Book Seventeen, Mahaprasthanika Parvan, The Book of the Great Departure - Book Eighteen, Svargarohana Parvan, The Book of Climbing to Heaven - Appendices

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Doniger, Wendy After the War

ISBN:

0-19-755341-9

0-19-755340-0

0-19-755343-5

0-19-755342-7

OCLC:

1336992162