The Mahabharata, Volume 2: Book 2: The Book of Assembly; Book 3: The Book of the Forest

878 Pages·1981·30.93 MB·English

The Mahabharata
The Book of the
Book 2
Assembly Hall
The Boo k of the
Book 3
Forest

The
The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London
Mahabharata
Translated and 2 The Book of the
Edited by
Assembly Hall
J.A.B. van Buitenen
3 The Book of the
Forest
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London
© 1975 by The University of Chicago
All rights reserved. Published 1975
Phoenix edition 1981
Printed in the United States of America
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ISBN-13: 978-0-226-84664-4 (paper, vol. 2)
ISBN-10: 0-226-84664-4 (paper, vol. 2)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Maha¯bha¯rata. English.
The Maha¯bha¯rata.
Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS: v. 1. The book of the beginning. v. 2. The book of the assembly hall.
The book of the forest.
I. Buitenen, Johannes Adrianus Bernardus van, tr.
PK3633.A2B8 294.5(cid:2)923 72-97802
The relief sculpture on the title page, dating from the second half of the fifth century
a.d., depicts Nara and Na¯ra¯yaana in Visnu temple, Deogarh, U.P., India, courtesy
Pramod Chandra.
øThe paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the
American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for
Printed Library Materials,ANSIZ39.48-1992.
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Contents
Preface ix
THE MAHABHARATA Translated
Book 2. The Book of the Assembly Hall
Introduction 3
Contents 31
Summaries and Translation 33
Book 3. The Book of the Forest
Introduction 1 73
Contents 217
Summaries and Translation 219
Notes to Text 809
Concordance of Critical Edition and Bombay
Edition: Books 2 and 3 837
Index 839
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