Mahabharata / with an introd. by B. A. van Nooten. Illustrated by Shirley Triest.
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TextLanguage: engsan Publisher: Berkeley, University of California Press [1973]Description: xxiii, 417 pages ; illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 0520020170
- 813/.5/4
- PZ4.B9215 Mah PS3552.U335
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Publisher's preface. Introduction. Part 1 - In the beginning. 1 A mine of jewels and gems. 2 The ring and the well. 3 Fire and flame. 4 Indraprastha. 5 The falling sand. Part 2 - In the middle. 6 Nala and Damayanti. 7 The thousand-petaled lotus. 8 An iron net. 9 Virata. 10 The ionvasion. 11 Do not tell. 12 Sanjaya returns. 13 Trees of gold. 14 The enchanted lake. 15 The night. Part 3 - In the end. 16 The blade of grass. 17 The lonely encounter. 18 Parikshita. 19 The timeless path. 20 The city of gates. Notes. Reference list of characters
'In 1955 Bill Buck discovered an elaborate nineteenth century edition of The Sacred Song of the Lord, the Bhagavad-Gita of Lord Krishna, in a state library in Carson City, Nevada. Immediately captivated, he plunged into a study of Indian literature which has resulted in this rendering of the Mahabharata, one of the Ramayana, and an unfinished manuscript of Harivamsa--unfinished because of the death of Bill Buck in 1970 at the age of 37....'
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