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100			_aHawley, Nell Shapiro (Ed.)
245			_aMany Mahabharatas
260			_bPrimus books _c2023 _aNew Delhi
300			_axxiv, 437p.
505			_aForeword / Paula Richman An introduction to the literature of the Mahābhārata / Nell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah Pillai Part I. The manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata. Ā Garbhāt : murderous rage and collective punishment as thematic elements in Vyāsa's Mahābhārata / Robert Goldman The invention of Irāvan / David Gitomer Bodies that don't matter : gender, body, and discourse in the narrative of Sulabhā / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman Part II. Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in poetry and performance. The remembered self : Arjuna as Bṛhannalā in the Pañcarātra / Nell Shapiro Hawley The lord of glory and the lord of men : power and partiality in Māgha's Śiśupālavadha / Lawrence McCrea What are the goals of life? The Vidūṣaka's interpretation of the Puruṣārthas in Kulaśekhara's Subhadrādhanañjaya / Sudha Gopalakrishnan How do you solve a problem like Śakuntalā? Considering alternative endings to Kālidāsa's drama on the contemporary Indian stage / Amanda Culp Part III. Regional and vernacular Mahābhāratas from premodern South Asia. An old dharma in a new age : Duryodhana and the reframing of epic ethics in Ranna's Sāhasabhīmavijaya / Timothy Lorndale Three poets, two languages, one translation : the evolution of the Telugu Mahābhāratamu / Harshita Mruthinti Kamath The fate of Kīcaka in two Jain Apabhramsha Mahābhāratas / Eva De Clercq and Simon Winant The power-politics of desire and revenge : a classical Hindi Kīcakavadha performance at the Tomar Court of Gwalior / Heidi Pauwels Blessed beginnings : invoking Viṣṇu in two regional Mahābhārata Retellings / Sohini Sarah Pillai Part IV. Mahābhāratas of modern South Asia. How to be political without being polemical : the debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the Kṛṣṇacaritra / Ahona Panda The epic and the novel : Buddhadev Bose's modern reading of the Mahābhārata / Sudipta Kaviraj Many Draupadīs : representations of an epic heroine in three novels / Pamela Lothspeich From excluded to exceptional : caste in contemporary Mahābhāratas / Sucheta Kanjilal A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away : the Mahābhārata as dystopian future / Philip Lutgendorf
520			_aMany Mahabharatas is an introduction to the spectacular and long-lived diversity of Mahabharata literature in South Asia. This diversity begins with the Sanskrit Mahabharata, an early epic poem that narrates the events of a catastrophic fratricidal war. Along the way, it draws in nearly everything else in Hindu mythology, philosophy, and story literature. The magnitude of its scope and the relentless complexity of its worldview primed the Mahabharata for uncountable tellings in South Asia and beyond. For two thousand years, the instinctive approach to the Mahabharata has been not to consume it but to create it anew.The many Mahabharatas of this book come from the first century to the twenty-first. They are composed in nine different languages—Apabhramsha, Bengali, English, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, Tamil, and Telugu. Early chapters illuminate themes of retelling within the Sanskrit Mahabharata itself, demonstrating that the story’s propensity for regeneration emerges from within. The majority of the book, however, reaches far beyond the Sanskrit epic. Readers dive into classical dramas, premodern vernacular poems, regional performance traditions, commentaries, graphic novels, political essays, novels, and contemporary theater productions—all of them Mahabharatas.Because of its historical and linguistic breadth, its commitment to primary sources, and its exploration of multiplicity and diversity as essential features of the Mahabharata’s long life in South Asia, Many Mahabharatas constitutes a major contribution to the study of South Asian literature and offers a landmark view of the field of Mahabharata studies.
650			_aLiterary criticism
650			_aMahabharata Influence
690			_aGeneral
700			_aPillai, Sohini Sarah (Ed.)
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