The greatest Indian epic, The Mahabharata, is the tale of life - its intrigues, its joys, its sorrows and about the elusive truth. First composed in verse, coming down the centuries through the ancient oral tradition, the epic has deeply influenced the history, culture, and arts of the subcontinent, as well as most of South-East Asia.
The Mahabharata tells of a great war and the events that lead upto it. The battlefield of Kurukshetra and the eventual victory of one of the warring factions leads to the end of a yuga and a new world order comes into existence. The epic is a treasure trove of human feelings and anguish while at the heart of it lies the Song of God, the Bhagavad Gita. At one level, all the restless action of the epic is a quest for the Gita and its sacred stillness. The Gita remains the holiest of all Hindu texts while The Mahabharata continues to enamour readers and scholars all over the world.
This new rendering retells the Mahabharata to the contemporary reader in lyrical, modern prose. Without being too short or forbiddingly long, it brings alive all the epic's excitement, magic and grandeur to our times. Published in two Volumes the Book has 821 Pags in Volume.1 and 718 Pages in Vol.2,totalling 1539 Pges.
Chapter 1. THE COUNCIL IN UPAPLAVYA
Chapter 2. A CHOICE FOR TWO KSHATRIYAS
Chapter 3. ‘EVERYONE SEEMS TO KNOW ME’
Chapter 6. THE PANDAVAS’ REPLY
Chapter 7. A BLIND KING’S TERROR
Chapter 8. SANJAYA DELIVERS A MESSAGE
Chapter 9. ‘NOT LAND TO COVER THE POINT OF A NEEDLE’
Chapter 10. A SECOND COUNCIL IN UPAPLAVYA
Chapter 11. KRISHNA ARRIVES IN HASTINAPURA
Chapter 13. IN THE COURT OF HASTINAPURA
Chapter 14. DURYODHANA AND KRISHNA
Chapter 17. THE PANDAVA SENAPATI
Chapter 18. THE KAURAVA SENAPATI
Chapter 19. ON THE BANKS OF YAMUNA
Chapter 20. ‘COME AWAY TO YOUR BROTHERS’
Chapter 21. FOR LOVE OF HIS FRIEND
Chapter 22. BALARAMA AND RUKMI
Chapter 11. THE SECOND DAY: TWO KRAUNCHAS
Chapter 12. THE THIRD DAY: THE EAGLE AND THE CRESCENT
Chapter 13. THE FOURTH DAY: BHEEMA AND HIS SON
Chapter 14. THE FIFTH AND SIXTH DAYS
Chapter 15. THE SEVENTH DAY: MANY DUELS
Chapter 16. THE EIGHTH DAY: THE FIELD OF DEATH
Chapter 17. DURYODHANA’S DESPAIR
Chapter 18. THE NINTH DAY: THE TERRIBLE PATRIARCH
Chapter 19. THE LAST NIGHT OF AN AGE
Chapter 22. ‘I NEVER HATED YOU’
Chapter 4. BHAGADATTA’S ELEPHANT
Chapter 5. AN ANCIENT AND HIS BEAST
Chapter 8. JAYADRATHA’S MOMENT
Chapter 11. JAYADRATHA’S TERROR
Chapter 14. ARJUNA THE MAGNIFICENT
Chapter 15. AT THE RIM OF THE RED LOTUS
Chapter 16. DEEP INTO THE ENEMY’S ARMY
Chapter 17. THE SOUND OF KRISHNA’S CONCH
Chapter 19. YUDHISHTIRA’S ANXIETY
Chapter 22. SATYAKI AND BHOORISRAVAS
Chapter 25. KARNA, KRIPA AND ASWATTHAMA
Chapter 27. GHATOTKACHA RULES THE NIGHT
Chapter 6. IN YUDHISHTIRA’S TENT
Chapter 11. OUT UNDER THE MOON
Chapter 1. KRIPA AND HIS SISHYA
Chapter 4. THE DWAIPAYANA LAKE
Chapter 5. MAGNIFICENT DURYODHANA
Chapter 8. THE CLARITY OF KRISHNA
Chapter 2. THE WHITE OWL’S LESSON
Chapter 1. WITH DHRITARASHTRA AND GANDHARI
Chapter 3. TARPANA FOR A KSHATRIYA
Chapter 1. YUDHISHTIRA’S GRIEF.
Chapter 2. A NEW KING IN HASTINAPURA
Chapter 3. THE DYING PATRIARCH
Chapter 6. THE PASSING OF A PATRIARCH
Chapter 1. KRISHNA SAYS FAREWELL
Chapter 2. THE ASWAMEDHA YAGNA
Chapter 1. THE PASSING OF THE ELDERS