The Mahabharata Revisited

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Item Code:	NAD064
Author:	R.N. Dandekar
Publisher:	Sahitya Akademi, Delhi
Edition:	2017
ISBN:	9788126028726
Pages:	306
Cover:	Paperback
Other Details	8.5 Inch X 5.5 Inch
Weight	510 gm

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From the Jacket

This volume contains the papers Presented at the International Seminal On the Mahabharata organized by the Sahitya Akademi at New Delhi on 17- 20 February, 1987. The themes Discussed at the seminar were: (1) the Mahabharata: Structure: Organic Legends; (2) the Mahabharata as an Epic of being and becoming – the Totality of life; (3) the socio-cultural Milieu of the Mahabharata; the Mahabharata as an epic of universality And human concern; (4) the Mahabharata in arts and culture in India and abroad; (5) the impact of The Mahabharata on later writers in India And abroad; and (6) the attitude of Modern creative writers towards the Mahabharata.

Contents

Presidential Address	1-10
Inaugural Address	11-18
Key-note Address	19-36
Text layers in the Mahabharata: some Observations in connection with Mahabharata	37-60
Genetic episode of the Pandavas: some remarks	61-70
The Mahabharata as an organic growth of the Oral literary tradition in ancient India	71-85
Architectonics of the Mahabharata and the place Of legends in its structure	87-93
The Mahabharata – apic of Santa rasa	95-100
Dvaipauyana, poet of being and becoming	101-111
The concept of anrsamsya in the Mahabharata	113-119
The socio-cultural milleu of the Mahabharata: An age of change	121-137
Socio-cultural milieu of the Mahabharata	139-150
The Mahabharata ideal of a welfare state	151-158
The Mahabharata: epic of universality and Human concern	159-167
The Mahabharata an epic of universality And deep human concern	169-182
The Mahabharata in performance: Forms and tradition	183-192
Mahabharata reflected in performance	193-200
Depiction of the Mahabharata scenes in Indian art	201-214
The Mahabharata in Asian Literature and arts	215-226
The impact of the Mahabharata tradition on the Malay literary tradition	227-243
The Mahabharata as the inspiration for living Literary tradition	245-253
Mahabharata: my attempt at a re-creation	255-265
The attitude of modern creative writers towards The Mahabharata: Oriya scene	267-280
A creative writer’s view of the Mahabharata	281-289
Valedictory Address	291-302
Contributors	303-306