MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHING HOUSE (MLBD) SINCE 1903



The Great Epic of India: Character and Origin of the Mahabharata

by Washburn Hopkins


  • Year of Publication: 1993
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Edition: 1st
  • No. of Pages: 479
  • Pages: 479
  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
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    Long age when this book first appeared in the opening year of the century the great Epic, Mahabharata had not been thoroughly examined to see what literature it reflected had not received a careful investigation from the metrical side its philosophy had been reviewed only in a most haphazard fashion and its relation to other epic poetry had been almost judgement on the question of the date and origin of the poem of which scholars knew as yet this poem of which scholars knew as yet scarcely more than that before a definitive answer could be given the whole huge structure must be studied from many points of view.

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