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Beginning the Mahabharata : a reader's guide to the frame stories /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodland Hills, CA :
South Asian Studies Association,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Pronunciation
- 1. Getting Started
- 2. A First Reading
- 3. Frame Stories
- 4. The Summaries (Chapters 1-2)
- Ch. 1 (The Lists of Contents)
- Ch. 2 (The Summaries of the Books)
- 5. The Snake Sacrifice
- 6. Pauá¹£ya (Chapter 3)
- 7. Puloman (Chapters 4-12)
- The first story
- The second story
- 8. �stıka (Chapters 13-24)
- Ch. 13
- Ch. 14
- Chs. 15-17
- Chs. 18-19
- Chs. 20-24
- 9. Taking Stock
- 10. Back to Garuá??a (á?¹stıka, Chapters 24-30)
- 11. Back to the Snakes (�stıka, Chapters 31-46Chs. 31-32
- Chs. 33-35
- Chs. 36-46
- Taking stock again
- The Story of Parikṣit�at Last
- Reader be warned
- The first version (chs. 36-40)
- The second version (chs. 45-46)
- The Story of JaratkÄ?ruâ€?at Last
- 12. The Sacrifice�At Last (�stıka, Chapters 47-53)
- Ch. 47
- Chs. 48-50
- Ch. 51
- Chs. 52-53
- 13. Rereading
- 14. Coda: (�stıka, chapters 53-56; Book XV, chapter 43; Book XVIII, chapter 5)
- Closing the Frame
- Book XV, Ch. 43
- Book XVIII, Ch. 5
- Works CitedThe MahÄ?bhÄ?rata
- Secondary