The Sanskrit Hero : Karna in Epic Mahābhārata
Associate of the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies Kevin McGrath
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The Mahhabhrata, 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.
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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.
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