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After the War - The Last Books of the Mahabharata (Paperback)
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After the War - The Last Books of the Mahabharata (Paperback)
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Loot Price R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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After the War is a new translation of the final part of the
Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating
fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving
heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which
they kill many of their own comrades to suicide through meditation
and, finally, magical transportation to both heaven and hell.
Bereaved mothers and widows on earth are comforted when their dead
sons and husbands are magically conjured up from heaven and emerge
from a river to spend one glorious night on earth with their loved
ones. Ultimately, the bitterly opposed heroes of both sides are
reconciled in heaven, but only when they finally let go of the
vindictive masculine pride that has made each episode of violence
give rise to another. Throughout the text, issues of truth and
reconciliation, of the competing beliefs in various afterlives, and
of the ultimate purpose of human life are debated. This last part
of the Mahabharata has much to tell us both about the deep wisdom
of Indian poets during the centuries from 300 BCE to 300 CE (the
dates of the recension of this enormous text) and about the
problems that we ourselves confront in the aftermath of our own
genocidal and internecine wars. The author, a distinguished
translator of Sanskrit texts (including the Rig Veda, the Laws of
Manu, and the Kamasutra), puts the text into clear, flowing,
contemporary prose, with a comprehensive but unintrusive critical
apparatus. This book will delight general readers and enlighten
students of Indian civilization and of great world literature.
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