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Maha-bhrata Book Eight (Volume 2): Karna (Clay Sanskrit Library)
Adam Bowles
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Description for Maha-bhrata Book Eight (Volume 2): Karna (Clay Sanskrit Library)
Hardcover. Presents the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general of the Kaurava army. This title deals with the war's seventeenth and penultimate day. Translator(s): Bowles, Adam. Series: Clay Sanskrit Library. Num Pages: 624 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FQ; HRG; HRLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 119 x 30. Weight in Grams: 422.
In India's great epic Maha*bharata, the eighth book, Karna, ; recounts the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karna's two days as general of the Kaurava army. This second volume resumes on the war's seventeenth and penultimate day. This will be a momentous day for the Bharata clans and especially for a number of their most distinguished heroes, with some of the epic's most telegraphed events reaching their climax. Not only will the epic's most anticipated duel between its greatest champions Arjuna and Karna be played out to its cruel and tragic end, but one of the more gruesome episodes in the epic will also take place with Duhshasana meeting the fate that has long awaited him since his brazen mistreatment of Draupadi in the assembly hall. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org
Product Details
Publisher
NYU Press
Number of pages
450
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Series
Clay Sanskrit Library
Condition
New
Weight
422g
Number of Pages
624
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814799956
SKU
V9780814799956
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Ref
99-15
About Adam Bowles
Adam Bowles translates and edits Sanskrit literature full time for the JJC Foundation, co-publishers (with NYU Press) of the Clay Sanskrit Library.
Reviews for Maha-bhrata Book Eight (Volume 2): Karna (Clay Sanskrit Library)
The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance. -Willis G. Regier,The Chronicle Review No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience. -The Times Higher Education Supplement “t;Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs. -Tricycle The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes. -New Criterion Published in the geek-chic format. -BookForum