The Mahabharata: The Only Complete and Authentic English Translation (12 Vols-Set)

Translated from original Sanskrit text into English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

ISBN 10: 812150094X / ISBN 13: 9788121500944

Published by Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers, 2019

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The Mahabharata in its present form is equal to about eight times as much as the Illiad and Odyssey put together. The nucleus of the Mahabharata is the great war of eighteen days fought between the Kauravas, the hundred sons of Dhritarashtra and Pandavas, the five sons of Pandu. The epic entails all the circumstances leading upto the war. In this great Kurukshetra battle were involved almost all the kings of India joining either of the two parties. The result of this war was the total annihilation of Kauravas and their party and Yudhishthira, the head of the Pandavas, became the sovereign monarch of Hastinapura, symbolizing the victory of good over evil. But with the progress of years new matters and episodes relating to the various aspects of human life, social, economic, political, moral and religious as also fragments of other heroic legends came to be added to the aforesaid nucleus and this phenomenon continued for centuries until it acquired the present shape. This very fact that the Mahabharata represents a whole literature rather than one single and unified work, and contains so many and so multifarious things, makes it more suited than any other book to afford us an insight into the deepest depths of the soul of Indian people.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Mahabharata: The Only Complete and Authentic English Translation (12 Vols-Set)
• Publisher: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
• Publication Date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 812150094X
• ISBN 13: 9788121500944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In the world of classical literature the Mahabharata is unique in many respects. As an epic, it is the greatest, seven times the size of the Illiad and the Odyssey combined, and the grandest - animating the heart of India over two thousand years past and destined to lead humanity for thousands of years in the future. It is the mightiest single endeavour of literary creation of any culture in human history. A walk through the table of contents alone is more than a day's journey. This twelve volume translation was completed and serially published in thirteen years from 1883 to 1896 in one hundred fasicules. The original edition was out of print within the lifetime of Mr. Ganguli, and is made available once again.