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Hardback. New. After the War is a new translation of the final part of the Mahabharata, the great Sanskrit Epic poem about a devastating fraternal war. In this aftermath of the great war, the surviving heroes find various deaths, ranging from a drunken debacle in which they kill many of their own comrades to suicide through meditation and, finally, magical transportation to both heaven and hell. Bereaved mothers and widows on earth are comforted when their dead sons and husbands are magically conjured up from heaven and emerge from a river to spend one glorious night on earth with their loved ones. Ultimately, the bitterly opposed heroes of both sides are reconciled in heaven, but only when they finally let go of the vindictive masculine pride that has made each episode of violence give rise to another. Throughout the text, issues of truth and reconciliation, of the competing beliefs in various afterlives, and of the ultimate purpose of human life are debated. This last part of the Mahabharata…
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After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata
de Wendy Doniger
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Southport, Merseyside, United Kingdom
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After the War: The Last Books of the Mahabharata
de Doniger, Wendy
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Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
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Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, 2022. Hardcover. New. 192 pages. 5.62x8.50x0.58 inches.
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