Author: Fernando Wulff Alonso
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788120837911
Category : Greece
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Sudha Murty
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9385990179
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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How many names does Arjuna have? Why was Yama cursed? What lesson did a little mongoose teach Yudhisthira? The Kurukshetra war, fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas and which forced even the gods to take sides, may be well known, but there are innumerable stories set before, after and during the war that lend the Mahabharata its many varied shades and are largely unheard of. Award-winning author Sudha Murty reintroduces the fascinating world of India’s greatest epic through the extraordinary tales in this collection, each of which is sure to fill you with a sense of wonder and bewilderment.

Author: N. J. Allen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000652009
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Bringing together the study of the Greek classics and Indology, Arjuna–Odysseus provides a comparative analysis of the shared heritage of the Mahābhārata and early Greek traditions presented in the texts of Homer and Hesiod. Building on the ethnographic theories of Durkheim, Mauss, and Dumont, the volume explores the convergences and rapprochements between the Mahābhārata and the Greek texts. In exploring the networks of similarities between the two epic traditions, it also reformulates the theory of Georges Dumézil regarding Indo-European cultural comparativism. It includes a detailed comparison between journeys undertaken by the two epic heroes – Odysseus and Arjuna – and more generally, it ranges across the philosophical ideas of these cultures, and the epic traditions, metaphors, and archetypes that define the cultural ideology of ancient Greece and India. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of Indo-European comparativism, social and cultural anthropology, classical literature, Indology, cultural and post-colonial studies, philosophy and religion, as well as to those who love the Indian and Greek epics.

Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 9385990195
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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• Olympus is the home of the Greek gods, much like Amravati of the Hindu devas. • Zeus, leader of Olympians, wields a thunderbolt like Indra, and rides an eagle like Vishnu. • The feats of the Greek hero Heracles, known to Romans as Hercules, reminded many of Krishna, as did his name, ‘Hari-kula-esha’ or lord of the Hari clan. • The Greek epic of a husband sailing across the sea with a thousand ships to bring his wife, Helen, back from Troy seems strikingly similar to the story of Ram rescuing Sita from Lanka. Is there a connection between Greek and Hindu mythology then? Does it have something to do with a common Indo-European root? Or maybe an exchange of ideas in the centuries that followed the arrival of Alexander the Great, when Greek emissaries travelled to the kingdoms of Mathura and Magadha? In this book, mythologist Devdutt Pattanaik turns his attention to ancient Greek tales, and explores a new world of stories. Long have Europeans and Americans retold Indic mythologies. It is time for Indians to reverse the gaze.

Author: Devdutt Pattanaik
Publisher: Rupa
ISBN: 9789353332303
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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RAMAYANA MAHABHARATA Also available as an e-book Non-fiction/Philosophy RAMAYANA vs DEVDUTT PATTANAIK MAHAB HARATA

Author: Homer
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781985083622
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734

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The Iliad Ancient Greek:Ili�s, pronounced [i?.li.�s] in Classical Attic; sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

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Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 9351188760
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 746

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The Mahabharata is one of the greatest stories ever told. Though the basic plot is widely known, there is much more to the epic than the dispute between Kouravas and Pandavas that led to the battle in Kurukshetra. It has innumerable sub-plots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, and it has rarely been translated in full, given its formidable length of 80,000 shlokas or couplets. This magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation of the epic is based on the Critical Edition compiled at the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute. * The final volume ends the instructions of the Anushasana Parva. The horse sacrifice is held, and Dhritarashtra, Gandhari, Kunti, Vidura and Sanjaya leave for the forest. Krishna and Balarama die as the Yadavas fight among themselves. The Pandavas leave on the great journey with the famous companion—Dharma disguised as a dog. Refusing to abandon the dog, Yudhishthira goes to heaven in his physical body and sees all the Kurus and the Pandavas are already there. * Every conceivable human emotion figures in the Mahabharata, the reason why the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. In this lucid, nuanced and confident translation, Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers.

Author: Jeremy McInerney
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691140073
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Includes selections translated from the Ancient Greek.

Author: Amrita Rao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781549973451
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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When young Indian archaeologist Aditya Kamat unwittingly reads aloud an ancient mantra, he is plunged into an adventure that takes him across states, countries, and realms of existence to recover a mythical gem belonging to the snake people, the Nagas. Accompanying him on his task is his Australian fellow archaeologist and Sanskrit scholar, Kayla Anderson. The two decipher clues, get trained to steal the precious stone back from mythical creatures, and adjust to life on a different plane of existence while dealing with astounding archeological discoveries and exploring their new-found friendship.

Author: Debalina
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
ISBN: 1543705766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 138

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“Into the Myths” presents an analytical perspective of ancient and Indian Mythology. It goes beyond the traditional realm of beliefs and understanding to delve deep into Rationalism. The rationale behind writing this book is to demystify the mystic and interpret fantasy in Epics and Mythologies with a realistic approach. With an aim to decode that which is fantastical and delineate meaningful interpretation relating with reality, this book covers a wide range of mythologies and provides scientific interpretation of the subject. Readers may expect discussions related to Symbols, popular ancient mythologies like Indian, Egyptian, Babylonian, Greek, and Roman etc and primary epics like Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Iliad. This book is a collection of her published and unpublished research papers and articles on the unexplored and unrecognized aspects of mythology, epic and archetypes with a rational, realistic and scientific approach.