Essays on the Mahabharata Motilal Banarsidass usually speak of vast expanses

usually speak of vast expanses of time to estimate the periods of creation (srsti)

and authenticity in the Diamond Path

and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities

Durgadatta Misra

Men of sight and wisdom almost always fail to save people from the doom that awaits them

Essays on the Mahabharata Motilal Banarsidass usually speak of vast expansesThis book is a classic study of a monumental work, the Mahabharata, perhaps the largest epic in world literature. It is an epic study of the epic on account of the voluminous size it has itself attained, the kaleidoscopic variety of the themes it covers, the great diversity of approaches it canvasses, and the wide array of contributions it includes, and the high standard of scholarship it achieves. This volume, like the epic it deals with, passed