Evil in the Mahabharata - Prof. Meena Arora Nayak

Evil in the Mahabharata

Buch | Hardcover
376 Seiten
2018
OUP India (Verlag)
978-0-19-947774-6 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
A reinterpretation of the Mahabharata that shows how over theepic has lost much of its richness and nuance, and the characters have become one-dimenssional cut-outs, distorted into meagre archetypes, creating customary laws that injure society.
Good and evil, loyalty and treachery, faith and doubt, honour and ignominy---the Mahabharata has served as a primer for codes of conduct of generations of Hindus. Over time, the epic has also fascinated those who love a tale well told. In its telling, however, the story has lost much of its richness and nuance, and the characters have become one-dimenssional cut-outs---either starkly good or irredeemably evil.

In this reinterpretation, Meena Arora nayak analyses how the values espoused in the Mahabharata came to be distorted into meagre archetypes, creating customary laws that injure society even today.

Meena Arora Nayak is Professor of English at Northern Virginia Community College, USA. She is the author of the books like 'In the Aftermath' (1992), 'About Daddy' (2000), and 'Endless Rain' (2006). She has also authored a children's book 'The Puffin Book of Legendary Lives' (2004). She translated 'Neela' (of the Hindi novel by Teji Grover) in the journal 'Hindi: Language, Discourse, Writing' in 2000.

Acknowledgements
Note on the Text
Glossary

Introduction
1. Nagas and Asuras: The Origin of Evil
2. The Ethical Framework of the Mahabharata
3. Dharamaksetra and Adharmaksetra: Framing the Ksetra
4. Dharamaksetra and Adharmaksetra: Delineating the Ksetra
5. The Ideal of Dharmayuddha and its Practicability

Conclusion: Questioning the Tradition of the Mahabharata

Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New Delhi
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 223 mm
Gewicht 544 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Hinduismus
ISBN-10 0-19-947774-4 / 0199477744
ISBN-13 978-0-19-947774-6 / 9780199477746
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