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Arjuna and the Hunter (Hardcover)
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Arjuna and the Hunter (Hardcover)
Series: Murty Classical Library of India
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The first complete English translation of one of the great court
epics of Sanskrit literature. Kiratarjuniya, or Arjuna and the
Hunter, is one of the great court epics of the Sanskrit literary
canon. Written by the sixth-century poet Bharavi, it is also the
first and most remarkable reinterpretation of a pivotal episode in
the Mahabharata, India's ancient epic. The warrior Arjuna travels
to the Himalayas to perform penance and win a boon from the god
Shiva that will help his brothers, the Pandavas, overcome their
enemies in righteous war. Appearing in the guise of a hunter, Shiva
tests Arjuna's courage in combat, ultimately reveals himself, and
bestows upon the hero an invincible weapon. In Bharavi's hands, the
episode is turned into a masterful contemplation of heroic action,
ethical conduct, ascetic discipline, and religious devotion-core
values in India's classical civilization and enduring themes in
Indian literature. But the poem's fame rests above all on its
aesthetic achievement. With its elegant, epigrammatic verse,
powerful imagery, dramatic speeches, and vivid descriptions, Arjuna
and the Hunter, now made available for the first time in a complete
English translation and accompanied by the Sanskrit original in the
Devanagari script, will dazzle and move contemporary readers no
less powerfully than its first courtly connoisseurs.
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