Text and Variations of the Mahabharata: Contextual, Regional and Performative Traditions
Chakravarty, Kalyan Kumar
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Book ID : 34048
ISBN-10 : 81-904029-8-6 / 8190402986
ISBN-13 : 978-81-904029-8-9 / 9788190402989
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2009
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
xxiii, 335p., 8p. of Plts., 23 cm. (Samisika Series No. 2)
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- 1. The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata-Its Constitution, Achievements, and Limitations; 2. The Mahabharata in Asian Literature and Arts; 3. The Mahabharata: the Global Epic; 4. The Mahabharata in the Literary Creativity of Indonesia; 5. Some Reflections of the Mahabharata in Japanese Literature; 6. Was Draupadi ever sought to be Disrobed?; 7. Computational Database of the Mahabharata for Assisting Research /Analysis; 8. Tamil Women and a Mahabharata Myth; 9. Nilalkkuttu and Over Mahabharata Episodes from Kerala; 10. The Epic Imagination and its (Dis)continuities : The Mewati Mahabharata; 11. Bheel Bharath : When the Mahabharata Incarnates Down Under; 12. Ideals in music as seen through the Mahabharata; 13. Life outside the Text: On the Background and Interpretation of the Mahabharata Characters in Contemporary Kataikuttu Performance; 14. The Mahabharata on Screen; 15. The Mahabharata as Represented in the Classical Contemporary Theatre of Kerala; 16. Purusharthas: values of Life; 17. Artha--Purusartha; 18. The Principle of Kama Purusurtha in the Mahabharata: Its Conception and Variations.
