Mahabharata
By C. Rajagopalachari, 484 Pages, Paperback.
An abridged retelling of the Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari, who was the first Indian Governor General of India. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life; a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival; but, above all, it has for its core the Bhagavad Gita, which is, as the world is beginning to find out, the noblest of scriptures and the grandest of sagas.
An abridged retelling of the Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari, who was the first Indian Governor General of India. The Mahabharata is not a mere epic; it is a romance, telling the tale of heroic men and women and of some who were divine; it is a whole literature in itself, containing a code of life; a philosophy of social and ethical relations, and speculative thought on human problems that is hard to rival; but, above all, it has for its core the Bhagavad Gita, which is, as the world is beginning to find out, the noblest of scriptures and the grandest of sagas.
