The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's Great Epic Poem and the Hindu System of World Ages
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The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's Great Epic Poem and the ...
Author: Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
Brand: Exotic India
Binding: hardcover
Number Of Pages: 312
Release Date: 01-12-2010
Details: This book questions the conventional wisdom that a fully matured theory of the yugas-Hinduism's ages of the world is integral to the Mahabharata and it illustrates how traditional commentators and modern scholars have read the later Puranic yuga theory into the Mahabharata, in particular when it comes to placing the action at the beginning of the current terrible Kali Yuga. Luis Gonzalez-Reimann discusses the meaning of key terms in the epic by examining the text and early Buddhist sources. This book also traces the sectarian appropriation of the yuga system in later literature and documents how modern religious movements have used the system to proclaim the arrival of a new, prosperous Krta Yuga, a phenomenon that coincides with new age expectations.
EAN: 9788120834842
Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.7 x 1.2 inches
Languages: English
