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The Mahabharata, Volume 3: Book 4: The Book of the Virata; Book 5: The Book of

The Mahabharata, Volume 3: Book 4: The Book of the Virata; Book 5: The Book of the Effort (Mahabharata (CHUP)) Paperback - 1983

by J. A. Van Buitenen (Translator)

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  • Title The Mahabharata, Volume 3: Book 4: The Book of the Virata; Book 5: The Book of the Effort (Mahabharata (CHUP))
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 582
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago, USA
  • Date 1983-11-15
  • Features Concordance
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR011340753
  • ISBN 9780226846651 / 0226846652
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.31 x 6.01 x 1.61 in (23.65 x 15.27 x 4.09 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Hindu
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 72097802
  • Dewey Decimal Code 294.592

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The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic brothers, the Pandavas, and their one hundred contentious cousins for rule of the land. This is the third volume of van Buitenen's acclaimed translation of the definitive Poona edition of the text. Book 4, The Book of Virata, begins as a burlesque, but the mood soon darkens amid molestation, raids, and Arjuna's battle with the principal heroes of the enemy. Book 5, The Book of the Effort, relates the attempts of the Pandavas to negotiate the return of their patrimony. They are refused so much as a "pinprick of land," and both parties finally march to battle.

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"The instants are joined together," remarks Bhisma sagely, "and so are the hours, days, fortnights, months, lunar houses, planets, seasons, and years: thus the wheel of time revolves with the divisions of time."

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