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Raja Yudhisthira: Kingship in Epic Mahabharata

Raja Yudhisthira: Kingship in Epic Mahabharata

McGrath, Kevin

Hardcover

Series: Myth and Poetics II

Literary CriticismReligion General

ISBN10: 1501704982
ISBN13: 9781501704987
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 16 2017
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary polity and how the king becomes a ruler who is viewed as ritually divine. Based on his precise and empirical close reading of the text, McGrath then addresses the idea of heroic religion in both antiquity and today; for bronze-age heroes still receive great devotional worship in modern India and communities continue to clash at the sites that have been--for millennia--associated with these epic figures; in fact, the word hero is in fact more of a religious than a martial term.

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