Vishwa Adluri, "Reading the Fifth Veda: Studies on the Mahabharata - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel"
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub | ISBN 10: 9004185666 | 2011 | PDF | 646 pages | 3.1 MB
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub | ISBN 10: 9004185666 | 2011 | PDF | 646 pages | 3.1 MB
Often spoken of as the 'Fifth Veda', i.e., as a text in continuity with the four Vedas and outweighing them all in size and import, the Mahābhārata presents a complex mythological and narrative landscape, incorporating fundamental ethical, social, philosophic, and pedagogic issues.