The Mah?bh?rata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses

Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan

Columbia University Press, 1998 - Education - 254 pages

The Mahabharata is the longest and, arguably, one of the greatest epic poems in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. With its central theme of universal destruction and the evils of war, the epic poem reveals not the exploits of heroes but of ordinary lives in search of the most fundamental of human desires: peace and reconciliation.

Contents

• V: 1
• VI: 44
• VII: 58
• VIII: 72
• IX: 89
• X: 121
• XI: 142
• XII: 160
• XIII: 167
• XIV: 179
• XVI: 186
• XVII: 190
• XVIII: 193
• XIX: 195
• XX: 198
• XXI: 203
• XXII: 207
• XXIII: 211
• XXIV: 217
• XXV: 219
• XXVI: 227
• XXVII: 231

About the author

Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan was educated at Madras University in India and at Oxford University. From 1937 to 1956 he worked in the Indian Civil Service, and for the next twenty-two years he worked at the undersecretary-general level at the United Nations.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Mah?bh?rata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses; Issue 71 of Records of civilization, sources and studies, ISSN 0080-0287; Translations from the Asian classics
• Author: Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
• Editors: Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan, Wm. Theodore De Bary
• Translated by: Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan
• Contributor: Columbia College (Columbia University)
• Edition: illustrated, revised
• Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0231110553, 9780231110556
• Length: 254 pages
• Subjects: Education / General; Literary Collections / Essays; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical; Literary Criticism / Asian / General; Literary Criticism / General; Poetry / Asian / General; Poetry / General; Religion / General; Religion / Hinduism / General; Religion / Hinduism / Sacred Writings