01552nam a22001697a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021020001800062040001200080082001700092100002900109245003000138260002900168300001100197520115800208650001601366OSt20260702154738.0260702b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789360806361  cAACR-II  a294.5923 ESS  aEdited by Sahrma, Arvind  aEssays on the Mahabharata  aNew DelhibManoharc2026  a489 p.  aThis 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.  aMahabharata