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	Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd.
	Author Amit Majmudar
	Language: English
	Pages: 359
	Cover: Paperback
	21.5 cm x 12.5 cm
	Weight 300 gm
	Edition: 2023
	ISBN: 9780143458302
	HAK302
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The Book of Vows, the first volume of the Mahabharata trilogy, follows the epic from the fateful meeting between a king and a fisherwoman to the catastrophic gambling match between warring cousins. Grounded in the ancient Sanskrit epic, this lively, contemporary retelling is unputdownable.

About the Author

Amit Majmudar is an internationally acclaimed novelist, poet and essayist, as well as a translator of the Bhagavad Gita (Godsong, PRHI, 2018). His work has won awards in both the United States and India. He works as a diagnostic and nuclear radiologist in Westerville, Ohio, where he lives with his wife and three children.

Introduction

WHAT IS THE MAHABHARATA? Of India's two epic poems, one was seemingly designed to disseminate. The Ramayana has a love story, a clear hero and a clear villain, talking monkeys, victimhood transcended and victimization avenged and plenty of magical adventure. Puppets in Java and kings of Thailand took their names from it. Before the Gospels, the Ramayana was the most popular story on earth, and it spread because of its own appeal, without the help of missionary empires or a Gideon society. The story travelled so well in part because it resembles a fairy tale-its prince and princess separated and, after many brave deeds, reunited. And indeed it is believed to be the earlier of the two epics.
What about India's other epic poem, the Mahabharata? It travelled too-one of the earliest surviving Sanskrit manuscripts was found inside a cave along the northern Silk Road in present- day China; carbon dated to 130 CE, it contains a table of contents for the Mahabharata. This epic, which grew by accretion to the longest in the world, has a more forbidding design. The original text, which fills multiple volumes, seems meant to be accessed piecemeal and selectively, like the internet; meant to be read in segments, like genetic code, the DNA of a civilization.
The Mahabharata contains complexities, ambiguities, backstories, digressions, parables, treatises, dozens of characters who combine admirable and frustrating traits, interventions in the story by the poet who will go on to compose it and plenty of death on both sides. It hosts a complete version of the Ramayana, an incantatory list of the 1000 names of Vishnu and a philosophical dialogue that has since been elevated to the status of an independent scripture. This is no once-upon-a-time, no happily-ever-after. The Mahabharata is narrative art that has evolved far beyond the fairy tale. It makes the novel, even at its most 'epic' or experimental or capacious, at its most Tolstoian or Joycean or Proustian, seem reserved, small-scale, unambitious.
WHY WRITE A MAHABHARATA? There are other things a poet or novelist could do with their limited time on earth. A novel with a contemporary setting is likelier to find an audience. Poems that find audiences are usually short and lyrical', focusing on personal experiences and emotions. I coach myself often enough to do what works, in prose and in verse-but the instant my fingers touch the keyboard, they disobey me. And so I ended up (re)writing the Mahabharata.
In the original epic, the frame story opens with a king holding a grand sacrifice. Vyasa, the epic's composer (as well as an important character in it, as you will see), shows up to present the epic poem for the first time. But it isn't Vyasa who recites it. Vyasa's pupil, Vaishampayana, has learned it from his teacher and recites it instead. Vyasa doesn't add a word. So, from the very beginning, the epic is transmitted. We do not hear from Vyasa. We hear from Vyasa's pupil. I, too, am Vyasa's pupil. I am a conduit of the story.

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