Mahabharata

William Buck

earliest edition we have, 2000 University of California Press, 2000 440 pages

"Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience, in nations with radically different languages and cultures, as the Mahabharata, a Sanskrit verse epic written some 2,000 years ago. The Mahabharata is probably the largest Indian epic ever composed. It is the story of dynastic struggle, between the Kurus and Pandavas for land. In his introduction, sanskritist B. A. Nooten notes "Apart from William Buc...

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Mahabharata paperback · 2019 · University of California Press · 320 pages · 9780520305588
Mahabharata paperback · 2012 · University of California Press · 442 pages · 9780520273023
Mahabharata paperback · 2000 · Motilal Banarsidass · 430 pages · 9788120817197
Mahabharata edition · 2000 · University of California Press · 440 pages · 9780520227040

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