Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : New. 1st Edition. The Mah�bh�rata is a unique text which not only claims for itself an encyclopaedic status declaring itself to be a compendium of everything that is there on social morality (dharma), political economy (artha), pleasure (k�ma) and spiritual liberation (moksa) (Mbh I.56.33) but also points out its rightful position as an itih�sa placed at a conversational crossroads among the authors located in its past, present and future (Mbh I.1.24; I.56.22). Therefore, there is no wonder that it captured the imagination of scholars, interpreters, translators and creative writers across time and space, leading to the production of a mammoth bibliography around itself. Sibaji Bandyopadhyay s Three Essays on the Mah�bh�rata is an addition to that corpus, and not a very novel one. All the three essays in the volume are pre-published in some form or other. The exercises in literary hermeneutics , the way the author introduces his work, is also not something completely new. The Mah�bh�rata, though primarily considered an itih�sa text in ancient tradition, is often attributed other designations inside and outside the text, and the status of k�vya (creative literature), mah�k�vya (loosely translated as epic ) and �khy�na (narrative) have been among them. Therefore, if scholars like Christian Lassen, Adolf Holtzmann, Leopold von Schroeder, E. Washburn Hopkins and F.E. Pargiter had tried to see the text analytically to locate some historical kernel by separating its layers, and a historicist approach deployed by historians like Romila Thapar and R.S. Sharma indicated a plausible separation between the narrative and the didactic sections of the text to unravel the embedded history in it, there has been a strong tradition of hermeneutical studies viewing the text as a unified literary piece. The early medieval literary critics, �nandavardhana and Abhinavagupta, found the literary essence of the diverse material of this massive text in the exposition of the s�nta rasa (mood of tranquillity). Such an approach might not have been disapproved by the authoritative seventeenth century commentator on the text, Nilakantha. Since then, hermeneutical analysis of the Mah�bh�rata has attracted many scholars including V.S. Sukthankar, A.K. Ramanujan, Patricia Greer and Radhavallabh Tripathi. If Stig Wikander and Georges Dumezil tried to locate the text within an overarching structure of Indo-European mythology, the overtly visible frame of . N� de r�f. du vendeur 117108

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