Essays on the Mahabharata

This book is a classic study of a monumental work, the Mahabharata perhaps the largest epic in world literature. It is an epic study of the epic, on account of the voluminous size it has itself attained, the kaleido­scopic variety of the themes it covers, the great diversity of approaches it canvasses, the wide array of contributions it includes and the high standard of scholarship it achieves. Contributors: Daniel H.H. Ingalls & Daniel H.H. Ingalls Jr; Barbara Stoler Miller; Edwin Gerow; Alf Hiltebeitel; Bimal K. Matilal; A.K. Ramanujan; Klaus Klostermaier; Gary A. Tubb; James L. Fitzgerald; Mary Carroll Smith; Ruth Katz; Indira V. Peterson; Vidyut Aklujkar; Bruce M. Sullivan; David Gitomer; William Sax; C.Z. Minkowski; B.N. Sumitra Bai and Robert J. Zydenos; Victoria Urubshurow and T.R. Singh; M.M. Despande; Braj M. Sinha; and John Dunham. About the Author Arvind Sharma, Ph.D. (1978) in Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, is Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He has edited several volumes on the position of women in the world’s religions.