Beginning the Mahābhārata
Subtitle: a reader's guide to the frame stories
By: James W. Earl
Contributors: South Asian Studies Association
Publisher: South Asian Studies Association
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Woodland Hills, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9780983447221
Subjects: Sanskrit Epic poetry; Mahābhārata; Commentaries; Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism
Description: This is a reader's guide to the prefatory materials, or preamble, which come before the main story begins, which include two interlocking frame stories. At 5,000 lines, it is a fraction of the whole poem, and this guide/explication to it ends at the beginning of the main narrative.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.