Arjuna and the Hunter - Couverture rigide

Bharavi

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674504968 ISBN 13 : 9780674504967

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2016

Synopsis

The first complete English translation of one of the great court epics of Sanskrit literature.

Kirātārjunīya, or Arjuna and the Hunter, is one of the great court epics of the Sanskrit literary canon. Written by the sixth-century poet Bharavi, it is also the first and most remarkable reinterpretation of a pivotal episode in the Mahābhārata, India's ancient epic. The warrior Arjuna travels to the Himalayas to perform penance and win a boon from the god Shiva that will help his brothers, the Pandavas, overcome their enemies in righteous war. Appearing in the guise of a hunter, Shiva tests Arjuna's courage in combat, ultimately reveals himself, and bestows upon the hero an invincible weapon.

In Bharavi's hands, the episode is turned into a masterful contemplation of heroic action, ethical conduct, ascetic discipline, and religious devotion--core values in India's classical civilization and enduring themes in Indian literature. But the poem's fame rests above all on its aesthetic achievement. With its elegant, epigrammatic verse, powerful imagery, dramatic speeches, and vivid descriptions, Arjuna and the Hunter, now made available for the first time in a complete English translation and accompanied by the Sanskrit original in the Devanagari script, will dazzle and move contemporary readers no less powerfully than its first courtly connoisseurs.

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À propos de l'auteur

Indira Viswanathan Peterson is David B. Truman Professor of Asian Studies at Mount Holyoke College.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674504968
• ISBN 13: 9780674504967
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
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