INDRA: The Rise and Fall of a Hero - Couverture souple

Patel, Utkarsh

 
9789355205407: INDRA: The Rise and Fall of a Hero
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9355205406 ISBN 13 : 9789355205407
Editeur : Rupa Publications India, 2022

Synopsis

There was something unusual in the air. There was no sound, no breeze and time seemed to have stopped as the world waited with bated breath. The eerie silence was unnerving and unsettling. What was this anticipation for? What was the world waiting for?
In the stillness of the infinite silence, a mother was waiting in anticipation to give the world its elements. Indra was about to be born.
Indra, most popularly known for his power over the rains, has been considered to be a cosmic, dragon-killing hero and a warrior god. So, what makes this warrior hero fall from grace? What makes him insecure, powerless and given to lust and merriment in the post-Vedic era? Indra—the Rise and Fall of a Hero is an attempt to look closely at an erstwhile ‘human-hero’, much maligned in the later period due to the wheel of time, which doesn’t even spare the gods.

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À propos de l?auteur

Utkarsh Patel is a lecturer of comparative mythology at the University of Mumbai and is a guest faculty in many other academic institutions across the country. He is an author of mythological fiction. 

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Éditeur
Rupa Publications India
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9355205406
ISBN 13 
9789355205407
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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