The Mahabharata: A Modern Rendering, 第 2 卷iUniverse, 2006 - 600 頁 The Mahabharata is the more recent of India's two great epics, and by far the longer. First composed by the Maharishi Vyasa in verse, it has come down the centuries in the timeless oral tradition of guru and sishya, profoundly influencing the history, culture, and art of not only the Indian subcontinent but most of south-east Asia. At 100,000 couplets, it is seven times as long as the Iliad and the Odyssey combined: far and away the greatest recorded epic known to man. The Mahabharata is the very Book of Life: in its variety, majesty and, also, in its violence and tragedy. It has been said that nothing exists that cannot be found within the pages of this awesome legend. The epic describes a great war of some 5000 years ago, and the events that led to it. The war on Kurukshetra sees ten million warriors slain, brings the dwapara yuga to an end, and ushers in a new and sinister age: this present kali yuga, modern times. At the heart of the Mahabharata nestles the Bhagavad Gita, the Song of God. Senayor ubhayor madhye, between two teeming armies, Krishna expounds the eternal dharma to his warrior of light, Arjuna. At one level, all the restless action of the Mahabharata is a quest for the Gita and its sacred stillness. After the carnage, it is the Gita that survives, immortal lotus floating upon the dark waters of desolation: the final secret! With its magnificent cast of characters, human, demonic, and divine, and its riveting narrative, the Mahabharata continues to enchant readers and scholars the world over. This new rendering brings the epic to the contemporary reader in sparkling modern prose. It brings alive all the excitement, magic, and grandeur of the original-for our times. |
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ONE The council in Upaplavya | 3 |
TWO A choice for two kshatriyas | 9 |
THREE Everyone seems to know me | 14 |
FOUR The two armies | 17 |
FIVE The messengers | 21 |
SIX The Pandavas reply | 29 |
SEVEN A blind kings terror | 34 |
EIGHT Sanjaya delivers a message | 42 |
SEVENTEEN The sound of Krishnas conch | 280 |
EIGHTEEN Terrible Satyaki | 284 |
NINETEEN Yudhishtiras anxiety | 287 |
TWENTY Bheema arrives | 291 |
TWENTYONE Karna and Bheema | 295 |
TWENTYTWO Satyaki and Bhoorisravas | 299 |
TWENTYTHREE The setting sun | 303 |
TWENTYFOUR The war at night | 307 |
NINE Not land to cover the point of a needle | 47 |
TEN A second council in Upaplavya | 53 |
ELEVEN Krishna arrives in Hastinapura | 59 |
TWELVE In Viduras house | 63 |
THIRTEEN In the court of Hastinapura | 66 |
FOURTEEN Duryodhana and Krishna | 70 |
FIFTEEN I am not alone | 76 |
SIXTEEN Krishna and Karna | 81 |
SEVENTEEN The Pandava Senapati | 87 |
EIGHTEEN The Kaurava Senapati | 91 |
NINETEEN On the banks of Yamuna | 94 |
TWENTY Come away to your brothers | 98 |
TWENTYONE For love of his friend | 100 |
TWENTYTWO Balarama and Rukmi | 104 |
TWENTYTHREE Ulukas embassy | 107 |
BOOK SIX1 Bheeshma Parva | 111 |
ONE Sanjayas gift | 112 |
TWO Kurukshetra | 116 |
THREE A moment of crisis | 120 |
FOUR The Bhagavad Gita | 124 |
FIVE The Song of God | 129 |
SIX The Bhagavad Gita | 133 |
SEVEN The Bhagavad Gita | 137 |
EIGHT The Song of God | 141 |
NINE The Bhagavad Gita | 144 |
TEN The ghastly war | 149 |
two kraunchas | 153 |
the eagle and the crescent | 158 |
Bheema and his son | 163 |
FOURTEEN The fifth and sixth days | 168 |
many duels | 174 |
the field of death | 179 |
SEVENTEEN Duryodhanas despair | 184 |
the terrible patriarch | 188 |
NINETEEN The last night of an age | 195 |
TWENTY The tenth morning | 202 |
TWENTYONE The bed of arrows | 206 |
TWENTYTWO I never hated you | 212 |
ONE Drona Senapati | 219 |
TWO The eleventh day | 222 |
THREE Susharma | 226 |
FOUR Bhagadattas elephant | 228 |
FIVE An ancient and his beast | 233 |
SIX Dronas vow | 236 |
SEVEN The chakra vyuha | 239 |
EIGHT Jayadrathas moment | 242 |
NINE Abhimanyu | 245 |
TEN Arjunas vow | 249 |
ELEVEN Jayadrathas terror | 255 |
TWELVE Arjunas dream | 260 |
THIRTEEN The three vyuhas | 264 |
FOURTEEN Arjuna the magnificent | 267 |
FIFTEEN At the rim of the red lotus | 271 |
SIXTEEN Deep into the enemys army | 275 |
TWENTYFIVE Karna Kripa and Aswatthama | 314 |
TWENTYSIX Awesome Karna | 317 |
TWENTYSEVEN Ghatotkacha rules the night | 323 |
TWENTYEIGHT Indras Shakti | 328 |
TWENTYNINE Drona | 333 |
THIRTY One white lie | 338 |
THIRTYONE Recriminations | 347 |
THIRTYTWO Narayanastra | 352 |
ONE Senapati Karna | 359 |
TWO Many duels | 363 |
THREE The lucid night | 365 |
FOUR Shalya | 368 |
FIVE The two brothers | 371 |
SIX In Yudhishtiras tent | 376 |
SEVEN The tastiest drink | 380 |
EIGHT Karna and Arjuna | 384 |
NINE The mired wheel | 388 |
TEN The sorrowing Sun | 393 |
ELEVEN Out under the moon | 396 |
ONE Kripa and his sishya | 401 |
TWO Tameless Shalya | 405 |
THREE The last men | 409 |
FOUR The Dwaipayana lake | 412 |
FIVE Magnificent Duryodhana | 416 |
SIX The two cousins | 419 |
SEVEN At Samantapanchaka | 422 |
EIGHT The clarity of Krishna | 426 |
ONE In Hastinapura | 433 |
TWO The white owls lesson | 437 |
THREE The savage camp | 442 |
FOUR Aswatthamas jewel | 448 |
ONE With Dhritarashtra and Gandhari | 455 |
TWO Gandharis curse | 459 |
THREE Tarpana for a kshatriya | 463 |
ONE Yudhishtiras grief | 469 |
TWO A new king in Hastinapura | 474 |
THREE The dying patriarch | 478 |
FOUR Bheeshmas wisdom1 | 482 |
FIVE Dharma | 490 |
SIX The passing of a patriarch | 496 |
ONE Krishna says farewell | 501 |
TWO The Aswamedha yagna | 504 |
ONE The passing of the elders | 517 |
ONE Ritual at Prabhasa | 529 |
TWO Krishna | 535 |
THREE Arjunas anguish | 537 |
ONE The final journey | 543 |
ONE The law of heaven | 551 |
Phalasruti | 555 |
APPENDIX | 557 |
Glossary | 573 |
About the Author | 593 |