Mahabharata - The Forest

Klappentext "Slender lady, I came out with you to gather fruit. I got a pain in my head and fell asleep in your lap. Then I saw a terrible darkness and a mighty person. If you know, then tell me - was it my dream? Or was what I saw real?" So speaks Satyavat, newly rescued from the god of death by Savitri, his faithful wife, at the heart of one of the best loved stories in Indian literature. This, and other well known narratives, including a version of Rama's story, bring the Forest Book of the great Sanskrit epic, the Zusammenfassung The Mahabharata! a classic in world literature! is presented here in a bilingual (with English) facing page edition.

Product details

• Authors: W J Johnson, W. J. (EDT) Johnson, William Johnson
• Assisted by: W. J. Johnson (Editor), Geoffrey Underwood (Editor), W. J. Johnson (Translation), William Johnson (Translation)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2005
• EAN: 9780814742785
• ISBN: 978-0-8147-4278-5
• No. of pages: 374
• Dimensions: 114 mm x 165 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Clay Sanskrit Library; Clay Sanskrit Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies