![]() Thus every possible human emotion features in the Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong there are no absolute answers. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Dispute over land and kingdom may lie at the heart of this story of war between cousins-the Pandavas and the Kouravas-but the Mahabharata is about conflicts of dharma. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers. This definitive and magnificent 10-volume unabridged translation is one of the rare English translations in full of the epic. The complete and unabridged Sanskrit classic, now masterfully and accessibly rendered for contemporary readers into English by Bibek Debroy. Thus every possible human emotion features in The Mahabharata, the reason the epic continues to hold sway over our imagination. While the dispute over land and kingdom between the warring cousins-the Pandavas and the Kauravas-forms the chief narrative, the primary concern of The Mahabharata is about the conflict of dharma. The greatest Indian story ever told of a war between two factions of a family, The Mahabharata has continued to sway the imagination of its readers over the past centuries. ![]()
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