In the Indian census of 1981, over 80% of the population declared
themselves Hindu - that's in excess of 500 million people. Theirs
is a spectacularly diverse religious tradition without the unity a
single creed bestows, and without a founding prophet such as the
great monotheistic religions have, or even a central moral code.
The Mahabharata - 'war poems of the Bharata' and what could,
arguably, described as the tradition's 'central' text, is 15 times
the length of the Bible, and dates back to the 5th century BC. This
edition features 4000 of the 90,000 verses from the Hindu epic
mythological poem - family feuds, wars, love and supernatural
happenings enshrine the values of ancient Hindu society. (Kirkus
UK)
Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem
embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and
the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses
is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an index
correlating the verses with the original Sanskrit text.
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