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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
War in the Mahabharata
Beteiligte:
Thapar, Romila
Erschienen:
Modern Language Association (MLA), 2009
Erschienen in:
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 124 (2009) 5, Seite 1830-1833
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1632/pmla.2009.124.5.1830
ISSN:
0030-8129;
1938-1530
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Beschreibung:
The Mahabharata, composed in sanskrit, is generally described as an epic. Other sanskrit texts refer to it occasionally as a kavya, or poem, and more often as an itihasa, which literally means “thus indeed it was,” suggesting an element of history. As with many early epics, it carries a consciousness of history but does not claim historicity. It evokes a past society of clans and narrates the events that bound them together or tore them asunder, focusing on the actions of those regarded as heroes.