{"product_id":"mahabharata-volume-8","title":"Mahabharata, Volume 8","description":"\u003cb\u003eA translation of the twelfth book of \u003ci\u003eThe Mah­­ābhārata\u003c\/i\u003e, an epic tale of history and kingship, reinforced with legends, romances, and metaphysical, theological, and ethical teachings written in Sanskrit 1700 or more years ago.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A remarkable composition of 100,000 couplets, \u003ci\u003eThe Mah­­ābhārata\u003c\/i\u003e is the second-longest poem in world literature. In this volume, James L. Fitzgerald completes his translation of the twelfth of \u003ci\u003eThe Mah­­ābhārata’s\u003c\/i\u003e eighteen books, the vast \u003ci\u003eShanti Parvan\u003c\/i\u003e, or \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e. Covering a wide range of ancient Indian intellectual history, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e was intended to serve as a comprehensive, brahmin-inspired basis for living a Good Life in a Good Society in a Good Polity and is one of the most important and complex books of the poem.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Fitzgerald’s previous contribution to the Chicago edition of\u003ci\u003e The Mahābhārata\u003c\/i\u003e, volume 7, opened with Book 11, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Women\u003c\/i\u003e, which movingly portrayed the grief of the wives, mothers, and sisters of the many warriors slain in the epic’s central war narrative. The crises of grief presented in \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Women\u003c\/i\u003e give particular poignancy and depth to the shanti, or pacification, that is the theme of Book 12, \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e. Volume 7 included the first half of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Peace\u003c\/i\u003e, and volume 8 now completes it with the second half, which is focused particularly on the ways people can escape the cycle of rebirth and realize sublime beatitude by way of saving knowledge or \u003ci\u003eyoga \u003c\/i\u003emeditation or devotion to God Viṣṇu-Nārāyaṇa. Supported by an extensive introduction and notes, this publication will be greeted as a major event in Sanskrit studies.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283874890072,"sku":"9780226835921","price":112.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226835921.jpg?v=1770523249","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/mahabharata-volume-8","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}