On-line articles related to Mahabharata

by Pradip Bhattacharya

Articles

1. Desire: The Root of All Misery

2. Karma : Electable, Immutable, Inexorable

3. Leadership and Managing Power - Insights from Mahabharata

4. Desire under the Kalpataru

5. The Mahabharata As Theatre

6. Enigmas in the Mahabharata

7. Panchkanya - Women of Substance
   

   Also see
   A Report on National Seminar on Panchakanya of Indian Epics

   Also see
   A Review on National Seminar on Panchakanya of Indian Epics by
   Saroj Thakur

Reviews

1. Tales and Teachings of Mahabharata by Janaki Abhisheki

2. Kampilya: Quest for a Mahabharata City

3. Draupadi The Goddess and Bhishma's Reminiscences
   Reviews of
   Alf Hiltebeitel: The Cult of Draupadi: Mythologies from Gingee to Kurukshetra Vol.1
   and
   M.M.Thakur: Thus Spake Bhishma
   

4. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics By Alf Hiltebeitel

5. Maggi Lidchi-Grassi's trilogy based on Mahabharata

6. Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel

7. Peter Brook's film Mahabharata

8. A Gap in Puranic History Bridged

9. Purana Pravesh Dr. Girindrashekhar Basu (Translated by Pradip Bhattacharya).

10. Summary of the book
    THE THARU BARKA NAACH: Nepal's Dangaura Tharu folk version of Mahabharata
    Ed Kurt Meyer & Pamela Deuel, translation by Dinesh Chamling Rai,
    Himal Books, Lalitpur Nepal 1998
    

11. The Transmogrification of Myth
    Review of Satisaptakam: Saga of Seven Mothers by Dr. K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar [Samata Books, Madras, pp. 642, Rs. 325].

12. Vidur's Mother, Pritha's First and Duryodhan
    Review of Three Mahabharata Verse Plays (Writer's Workshop, Calcutta, 1991)
    Translation by Kanak Kanti De of the three plays by Buddhadeb Bose, Sankranti [The Ending], Pratham Partha [The First Born], and Anamni Angana [Angana Unnamed]

13. Review of Management Concepts from the Mahabharata by N.M. Khandelwal.

14. Note on Persian translation of Mahabharata

15. Review of P. Lal transcreation of Mahabharata, Parvas 1 and 2

1. Desire Under the Kalpataru
2. Panchkanya - Women of Substance
3. Leadership and Managing Power - Insights from Mahabharata
4. Agastya's Gateway
5. The Third Dice Game (original in Bengali by Rajshekhar Basu)

Articles by Satya Chaitanya

1. The Brides of the Bharatas

2. Draupadi - The Last Wager

3. Mahabharata - Odes to Red Blood and Savage Death

4. Mahabharata - As the Curtain of Death Falls

5. A Woman of Ayodhya, A Womb Desecrated

6. Ganga Weds a Frog Prince This article tries to understand a part of the Bheel Bharata, on its own and in relation to Vyasa’s epic.

7. Kunti and the Birth of the Sun God's Child This article tries to understand an episode from Bheel Bharatha (a Mahabharata version of the tribal Bheels), on its own and in relation to Vyasa’s epic.

8. Mahabharata: The Harvest of Hatred The tragedy of the Mahabharata seen through the eyes of the blind king Dhritarashtra

9. The Puzzle of Pandu Understanding the character of Pandu

1. The Universal Message Of The Mahabharata
   

2. Bhishma and Sri Krishna - The New Value System in the Mahabharata

3. A follow-up on the New Value System in the Mahabharata

4. From Morality to Moksa - Freedom in the Mahabharata
   

Other Articles

• Thinking about Bhisma Parvan - David Gitomer. Read this article from D. Gitomer's Home Page

• An Apprenticeship in Attentiveness: Narrative Patterning in the Dyutaparvan and the Nalopakhyanam of the Mahabharata by James M. Hegarty. (Provisional Version)

• "Yatrasayayamgrho Muni" A. Harindranath and A. Purushothaman

• The Gita of J. Robert Oppenheimer James A. Hijia

• Some thoughts on translating translation from Korea to India Alf Hiltebeitel

• The Dice Match -- Narendra Kohli (Presented at the International Seminar on Mahabharata organized by Sahitya Academy, Delhi, India: April 2004 .)

• Introduction to French Translation of Harivamsa S. A. Langlois (Translated into English by Gilles Schaufelberger.
  1. A note on Langlois, Thoreau and Harivamsa
  2. The Transmigrations of the Seven Brahmans Translation by Henry David Thoreau, from Langlois' French translation of Harivamsa, appendix to The Mahabharata.

• Nilakantha Caturdhara and the Genre of Mantrarahasyaprakasika Christopher Z Minkowski

• Indian Epic Narrative: Alive and Vibrant Prema Nandakumar

• Empowering all our women, not in theory but in daily practice -- Falis Nariman

• Notes on Bhasa's Play Madhyama Vyayoga by Kavalam Narayana Panikkar

• New Media and People's Empowerment a Lecture by Dr. Mallika Sarabhai who played Draupadi in Peter Brook's Mahabharata.

• Rishyashringa and the unicorn Excerpts From G. Schaufelberger & Guy Vincent, Le Mahabharata, Presses de l'Universite Laval, Quebec, 2004, Vol I: The Pilgrim's Guide, pp. 346-347.
  Translated into English by G. Schaufelberger

• Supplement to the above article
  Quotes from The Mahabharata, Vol. II, 2. The Book of the Assembly Hall, 3. The Book of the Forest, Translated and Edited by J.A.B. van Buitenen, The University of Chicago Press (1975)

• Alexander's Shadow in the Mahabharata English translation of a article in French by Guy Vincent on Alexander and Kalayavana who gets a mention in Mahabharata, Book XII. Translated by Gilles Schaufelberger.
  1. Kalayavana in Harivamsa - Brief account in Harivamsa Parva (From the Bengali recension of Harivamsa. Note prepared by Pradip Bhattacharya)
  2. On Kalayavana from Vishnu Purana From the translation by H.H. Wilson
  3. On Kalayavana from Langlois' Translation of Harivamsa, Translation by Gilles Schaufelberger (part of chapter 35 and chapters 108, 109, 110 and 113)
  4. Kalayavana from Harivamsa (Critical Edition) Translated by Sekhar Sen (chapter 25 of Harivamsa Parva and chapter 85 of Vishnu Parva)
  5. Kalayavana from Harivamsa (Gita Press Edition) Translated by Sekhar Sen (chapter 25 of Harivamsa Parva and chapter 85 of Vishnu Parva)
  6. Kalayavana in Krishnattam :
     1. Picture Gallery One
     2. Picture Gallery Two
     (Krishnattam or Krishnanattam is a temple art, now performed at Guruvayur Temple, Kerala, India as a votive performance. The performance is based on Krishnagiti, a text of slokas and padams in Sanskrit, composed by Manaveda, the Zamorin King of Calicut, in 1654.)

• Jaya -- Swami Siddhinathananda (An investigation into the meaning of Jaya and its intimate connection with sacrifice)

• On Battle Scenes in the Vernacular Mahabharatas by W.L. Smith

• Dharmo Rakshati Rakshitaha Sheenu Srinivasan

• Link to Mahabharata articles Mahabharat: A Myth or a Reality, The Mahabharat Chronology, Mahabharat: An Astronomical Proof from the Bhagavat Puraan, The Scientific Dating of the Mahabharat War, Mahabharat: Some Interpretations, The Sun Set Twice to Kill Jayadratha, The Fall of Star Vega

• Peter Brook, The Mahabharata and Intercultural Performance Craig S. Strobel

• Mahabharata Translation An article by A.R. Rajaraja Varma on the Mahabharata translation by Kunhikkuttan Thampuran

• Many Encounters with Ghantakarna who appears in Salya Parva and Harivamsa

  • An eye-witness account of Kanthakarnan Theyyam in northern Kerala (by A. Purushothaman).

  • A newspaper article on Karkkitaka Theyyam in northern Kerala (folk ritual connected with kirata episode from Mahabharata)

  • English Translation of the article on Karkkitaka Theyyam.

  • Another newspaper article (Mathrubhumi, August 17, 2004 (Kannur Edition) on Atitheyyangal in northern Kerala

  • For an illuminating study of Theyyam and associated folk rituals of Northern Kerala see Possession Rites and the Tantric Temple: A Case-Study from Northern Kerala by J. R. Freeman

• The Mahabharata as I Remember it Saroj Thakur

• Derrida, A Renunciant? The Gift of the Bhagavad Gita in The Gift of Death - Peter Huk

• Saying Good-Bye the Himalayan Way by Claus Peter Zoller
  available in the book
  Tender Ironies A Tribute to Lothar Lutze Edited by Dilip Chitre, Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer, Heidrun Bruckner, Anne Feldhaus & Rainer Kimmig

• Mahabharata Book 3: The Forest, Vol. 4: A Translator's Story William Johnson

• Summary of Kresnayana Kakawin Manuscript

• Images of Women and Embodiment in Kakawin Literature Helen Creese

• Legend from Kerala involving Aswathama Also see Ashwatthama Factbites