Essays on the Mahabharata Motilal Banarsidass Men of sight and wisdom

Men of sight and wisdom almost always fail to save people from the doom that awaits them

three departed mentors: Louis Renou

where I was a research associate and then a visiting scholar

it climbed up a mango tree

In the present work

Essays on the Mahabharata Motilal Banarsidass Men of sight and wisdomThis book is a classic study of a monumental work, the Mahabharata, perhaps the largest epic in world literature. It is an epic study of the epic on account of the voluminous size it has itself attained, the kaleidoscopic variety of the themes it covers, the great diversity of approaches it canvasses, and the wide array of contributions it includes, and the high standard of scholarship it achieves. This volume, like the epic it deals with, passed