| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 121 pages) |
| Contents |
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Pronunciation -- 1. Getting Started -- 2. A First Reading -- 3. Frame Stories -- 4. The Summaries (Chapters 1-2) -- Ch. 1 (The Lists of Contents) -- Ch. 2 (The Summaries of the Books) -- 5. The Snake Sacrifice -- 6. Pauá¹£ya (Chapter 3) -- 7. Puloman (Chapters 4-12) -- The first story -- The second story -- 8. á?¹stıka (Chapters 13-24) -- Ch. 13 -- Ch. 14 -- Chs. 15-17 -- Chs. 18-19 -- Chs. 20-24 -- 9. Taking Stock -- 10. Back to Garuá??a (á?¹stıka, Chapters 24-30) |
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11. Back to the Snakes (á?¹stıka, Chapters 31-46Chs. 31-32 -- Chs. 33-35 -- Chs. 36-46 -- Taking stock again -- The Story of Pariká¹£itâ€?at Last -- Reader be warned -- The first version (chs. 36-40) -- The second version (chs. 45-46) -- The Story of JaratkÄ?ruâ€?at Last -- 12. The Sacrificeâ€?At Last (á?¹stıka, Chapters 47-53) -- Ch. 47 -- Chs. 48-50 -- Ch. 51 -- Chs. 52-53 -- 13. Rereading -- 14. Coda: (á?¹stıka, chapters 53-56; Book XV, chapter 43; Book XVIII, chapter 5) -- Closing the Frame -- Book XV, Ch. 43 -- Book XVIII, Ch. 5 |
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Works CitedThe MahÄ?bhÄ?rata -- Secondary |
| Summary |
This is a reader's guide to the prefatory materials, or preamble, which come before the main story begins, which include two interlocking frame stories. At 5,000 lines, it is a fraction of the whole poem, and this guide/explication to it ends at the beginning of the main narrative |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| SUBJECT |
Mahābhārata -- Commentaries
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Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Mahābhārata fast |
| Subject |
Epic poetry, Sanskrit -- History and criticism
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Epic poetry, Sanskrit
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| Genre/Form |
Commentaries
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
South Asian Studies Association.
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| ISBN |
9780983447252 |
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098344725X |
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