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Sep 11th, 2014, 5:19 pm
Mahabharata adaptated by Narendra Sharma and Ravi Paranjave
Requirements: CBR Reader, 103 MB.
Overview: This is the English version of the Mahabharata - the classic tale of Hindu mythology about a great war between cousins, and also with the story of Krishna as an adult and his famous words captured in the Bhagavad-Gita - and it is presented in two parts from Indrajal comics. Nothing fancy as far as art, paneling or storytelling but it's a cool look at the Indian comics that are quite common and popular over there - and how they feature religious myths. You may enjoy giving it a spin!

Genre: Comics, Adaptation, Classic, Mythology, War.

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Mahabharata
    Narendra Sharma writer
    Ravi Paranjave arts, pencils
    Published by Indrajal Comics, 1977.

      The Mahabharata or Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India, the other being the Ramayana.

      Besides its epic narrative of the Kurukshetra War and the fates of the Kaurava and the Pandava princes, the Mahabharata contains philosophical and devotional material, such as a discussion of the four "goals of life" or purusharthas (12.161). Among the principal works and stories in the Mahabharata are the Bhagavad Gita, the story of Damayanti, an abbreviated version of the Ramayana, and the Rishyasringa, often considered as works in their own right.

      Traditionally, the authorship of the Mahabharata is attributed to Vyasa. There have been many attempts to unravel its historical growth and compositional layers. The oldest preserved parts of the text are thought to be not much older than around 400 BCE, though the origins of the epic probably fall between the 8th and 9th centuries BCE. The text probably reached its final form by the early Gupta period (c. 4th century CE). The title may be translated as "the great tale of the Bhārata dynasty". According to the Mahabharata itself, the tale is extended from a shorter version of 24,000 verses called simply Bhārata.

      The Mahabharata is the longest known epic poem and has been described as "the longest poem ever written". Its longest version consists of over 100,000 shloka or over 200,000 individual verse lines (each shloka is a couplet), and long prose passages. About 1.8 million words in total, the Mahabharata is roughly ten times the length of the Iliad and the Odyssey combined, or about four times the length of the Ramayana.

Download Instructions:
http://www.gboxes.com/9out9po1r2mz -- Mahabharata Part-I (1977)
http://www.gboxes.com/m7j24r2rmsks -- Mahabharata Part-II (1977)

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