Mahabharata

A Modern Retelling

Carole Satyamurti, Vinay Dharwadker (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago)

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English

Norton
17 April 2015

Poetry by individual poets; Religion & beliefs; Hindu sacred texts

Originally composed approximately two thousand years ago, the Mahabharata tells the story of a royal dynasty, descended from gods, whose feud over their kingdom results in a devastating war. But it contains much more than conflict. An epic masterpiece of huge sweep and magisterial power, a hundred times more interesting than the Iliad and the Odyssey, writes Wendy Doniger in the introduction, the Mahabharata is a timeless work that evokes a world of myth, passion, and warfare while exploring eternal questions of duty, love, and spiritual freedom. A seminal Hindu text, which includes the Bhagavad Gita, it is also one of the most important and influential works in the history of world civilization. Innovatively composed in blank verse rather than prose, Carole Satyamurti's English retelling covers all eighteen books of the Mahabharata. This new version masterfully captures the beauty, excitement, and profundity of the original Sanskrit poem as well as its magnificent architecture and extraordinary scope.

By: Carole Satyamurti
Afterword by: Vinay Dharwadker (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Foreword by: Wendy Doniger (University of Chicago)
Imprint: Norton
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 244mm, Width: 168mm, Spine: 46mm
Weight: 1.318kg
ISBN: 9780393081756
ISBN 10: 0393081753
Pages: 928
Publication Date: 17 April 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Mahabharata: A Modern Retelling

A bold new English translation captures the excitement and scope of the original Sanskrit epic poem. -- The Tablet Carole Satyamurti's Mahabharata, crucially not a translation, uses previous English versions as a springboard for her blank-verse modern retelling . Her aim has been to produce a readable and gripping narrative, focusing on the story, for the reader who may have little or no previous knowledge of the epic, and in this she has been resoundingly successful. -- New Statesman