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    The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Book 1: The Book of the Beginning
    The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Book 1: The Book of the Beginning
    The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Book 1: The Book of the Beginning
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    The Mahabharata, Volume 1: Book 1: The Book of the Beginning

    By J. A. B. van Buitenen

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    The Mahabharata, an ancient and vast Sanskrit poem, is a remarkable collection of epics, legends, romances, theology, and ethical and metaphysical doctrine. The core of this great work is the epic struggle between five heroic brothers, the Pandavas, and their one hundred contentious cousins for rule of the land. This is the first volume in what will ultimately become a multi volume edition encompassing all eighteen books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
    Release dateMay 4, 2011
    ISBN9780226217543
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      Amazing epic of India. Depicting the exile and eventual victory of the five Pandva brothers aided by Krishna. More absorbing than Homer's Illaid.

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