The Complete Mahabharata (3)

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About the Book: The Complete Mahabharata- Volume3 The third instalment of Rupas 12-book Mahabharata series,this volume narrates brilliantly the life of the Pandavas in exilein the forest and their ajnatavasa, living incognito, . Meteors rain down in torrents and a deep gloom fallseverywhere. Birds fly about in alarm and great trees tremble. Fromthe thunderous sound the Kurus know that it is Arjunas hands thatdrew the string of that best of bows. The Mahabharata of Veda Vyasa is the longest recorded epic ofthe world. With almost 100,000 verses, it is many times as long asthe Iliad and the Odyssey combined and has deeply influenced everyaspect of the Indian ethos for some 4,000 years. The Mahabharata embodies the ancient and sacred Indiantradition, in all its earthy and spiritual immensity. Many believethis most magnificent epic to be the greatest story ever told. Yet,the only full Indian translation of the Mahabharata into English isthe 19th century one by Kisari Mohan Ganguli. More than a hundredyears have passed since Ganguli accomplished his task, and thelanguage he used is now, sadly, archaic. This new 12-volume series retells the great epic, line by line,in fresh, easily readable English prose. With it, we hope to bringthe Mahabharata alive again, for the contemporary and futurereader. About the Authors: Jayashree Kumar, KatyaOsbornepling Jayashree Kumar lives in Kodaikanal, which she and her husbandmade their home in 1986. She has been a teacher and is now afreelance editor with a passion for reading, knitting andbookbinding. Katya Osborne grew up in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. She is thedaughter of Arthur Osborne who wrote Ramana Maharshi and the Pathof Self-knowledge. Series editor: Ramesh Menon was born in 1951 in New Delhi. He has also writtenmodern renderings of the Mahabharata, Ramayana, Srimad BhagavadGita, Siva Purana, Devi Purana and Bhagavata Purana.