Chakravarthi V. Narasimhan (Translator)
The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verse.
Columbia University Press, 1998. Columbia Asian Studies series. Sixth printing of revised edition, with a new preface. 0231110553 xxix/254 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.5", shows light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. This edition contains genealogical tables, glossary, list of alternative names and an index of verses on which English version is based.
""The Mahabharata" is the longest, and arguably one of the greatest, epic poems in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. With its central theme of universal destruction and the evils of war, the epic poem reveals not the exploits of heroes but the lives of ordinary people in search of the most fundamental of human desires: peace and reconciliation."