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Beginning the Mahābhārata: a reader's guide to the frame stories

By South Asian Studies Association.;Earl , James Whitby

Book information

Publisher
South Asian Studies Association
Year
2011
ISBN
9780983447221, 0983447225
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3621826 bytes)
Pages
viii, 121 pages ; 23 cm\133
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

This is a reader's guide to the prefatory materials, or preamble, which come before the main story begins, which include two interlocking frame stories. At 5,000 lines, it is a fraction of the whole poem, and this guide/explication to it ends at the beginning of the main narrative.

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