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The Mahabharata. As it Was is and Shall Be. A Critical Study

1934

I tried to impress upon the members of the Bhandarkar Society the importance of establishing the real original incidents and plot of the great Epic illustrating some of them there so that the original texts and characters might be joined together divested of the subsequent interpolations and additions made under the specious plea of adapting it to the march of the times and the tastes of the pub [...] These sages have handed to us the revealed Vedas the Upanishads the Mahabharata the Ramayana and the Purans the magnitude and vastness of the quantity and the excellence of the quality of which have at once been the admiration envy and enigma of the whole world. [...] The sun the moon the wielder of thunder the master of oceans the maker of storms the creator of fire or the holder of the earth no longer seemed to be the presiding deities of life the soul or energy ofII creation and destruction. [...] The idea of the four stages of life and the four orders of the caste system based on the preponderance in the proportion of the three inherent qualities Sattwa Rajas and Tamas which were represented in the Hindu trinity were the outcome of the Narayana cult as is clear from the Purusha Sukta of the Rigveda by sage Narayana the patronymic of Nara. [...] The combined efforts of all the Vedic gods failed to subdue the great disciples of Narayana Hirayana Kasipu Bali Vritrasura until and unless the espouser of the cause of Dadhichi was sacrificed and the wife of Bhrigu was killed by the sound of the fearful Nrisinghdeva and Bali was translated from Heaven to Patala (Hades the region under the earth) and the great King Nahusa was placed on t
philosophy religion
Pages
602
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.147258
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-v Promatha Mullick view
Preface
1-4 Promatha Mullick view
Introduction
5-37 Promatha Mullick view
Ancient Education
38-45 Promatha Mullick view
Indo-Aryan Worship
46-111 Promatha Mullick view
Epic Inter-Relation with the Vedas
112-158 Promatha Mullick view
Narayana
159-189 Promatha Mullick view
Indo-Aryan Epic Genesis
190-252 Promatha Mullick view
Epic History and Civilisation
253-286 Promatha Mullick view
Religion
287-307 Promatha Mullick view
Philosophy and Religion of Love
308-333 Promatha Mullick view
Epic Authors and Editors
334-357 Promatha Mullick view
Interpolations and Revisions
358-395 Promatha Mullick view
Epic Aim
396-416 Promatha Mullick view
Ancient Hindu Marriage System
417-457 Promatha Mullick view
The Divine Light in Epic
458-476 Promatha Mullick view
Epic Characters
477-545 Promatha Mullick view
Review
546-573 Promatha Mullick view
Appendices
574-581 Promatha Mullick view
Bibliography
i-ii Promatha Mullick view
Topographical Index
iii-iv Promatha Mullick view
Index
v-xiv Promatha Mullick view

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