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Product details:
- Publisher BRILL
- Date of Publication 25 March 2004
- ISBN 9789004137295
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages260 pages
- Size 235x155 mm
- Weight 627 g
- Language English 0
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At the hand of the hero Karna this book offers a model for ‘heroic religion’, having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics, but also cognate Indo-European epics, such as Homer’s Iliad.
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The Mahāhabhārata, a vital Indic epic and a flourishing influence on Indian culture past and present, has surprisingly enough hardly got much attention from scholars in the West. This latest volume in Brill’s Indological Library convincingly fills this hiatus.
At that, at the hand of the hero Karna, Kevin McGrath develops a view on the nature and function of the hero in epic Indic poetry. Making use of models taken from Indo-European and preliterate studies, a model emerges for ‘heroic religion’, having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics, but also cognate Indo-European epics, such as Homer’s Iliad.
As a result this work goes beyond Indology, but is of importance to classicists and comparative religionists as well.
'That the characters of the Mahābhārata are receiving the same literary scrutiny that the characters of the Homeric epics have enjoyed is surely a moment for Indologists to celebrate…McGrath is a careful reader as well as a wonderful translator, and he has a great deal to teach his readers…recommended to epic specialists as well as those who are interested in the modes which comparatives Asian studies are taking place.'
Aditya Adarkar, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2005.
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At the hand of the hero Karna this book offers a model for ‘heroic religion’, having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics, but also cognate Indo-European epics, such as Homer’s Iliad.
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