The Mahabharata and the Yugas : India's Great Epic Poem and the Hindu System of World Ages
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Asian Thought and Culture
ISBN-10
082045530X
ISBN-13
9780820455303
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 7th, 2002
Print length
298 Pages
Weight
436 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Religion & beliefs
Ksh 5,450.00
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This book questions the conventional wisdom that a fully matured theory of the yugas – Hinduism’s ages of the world – is integral to the Mahābhārata, and it illustrates how traditional commentators and modern scholars have read the later Purāṇic yuga theory into the Mahābhārata, in particular when it comes to placing the action at the beginning of the current terrible Kali Yuga. Luis González-Reiman discusses the meaning of key terms in the epic by examining the text and early Buddhist sources. This book also traces the sectarian appropriation of the yuga system in later literature and documents how modern religious movements have used the system to proclaim the arrival of a new, prosperous Kṛta Yuga, a phenomenon that coincides with New Age expectations.
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