The Sanskrit Hero: Karna in Epic Mahābhārata

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The Sanskrit Hero: Karna in Epic Mahābhārata

Name: The Sanskrit Hero: Karna in Epic Mahābhārata
ISBN: 9789004137295

Kevin McGrath

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The Mahâhabhârata, a vital Indic epic and a flourishing influence on Indian culture past and present, has surprisingly enough hardly got much attention from scholars in the West. This latest volume in Brill’s Indological Library convincingly fills this hiatus. At that, at the hand of the hero Karna, Kevin McGrath develops a view on the nature and function of the hero in epic Indic poetry. Making use of models taken from Indo-European and preliterate studies, a model emerges for ‘heroic religion’, having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics, but also cognate Indo-European epics, such as Homer’s Iliad. As a result this work goes beyond Indology, but is of importance to classicists and comparative religionists as well.

الفئات:

Society, Politics & Philosophy - Anthropology

عام:

2004

الناشر:

Brill Academic Publishers

اللغة:

english

الصفحات:

273

ISBN 10:

9004137297