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Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative(AAR Religion in Translation)

Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative(AAR Religion in Translation)


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Recognized as the longest poem ever composed, the ancient Sanskrit Mahabharata epic tells the tale of the five Pandava princes and the cataclysmic battle they wage with their one hundred cousins, the Kauravas. This story is one of the most popular and widely-told narratives in South Asia, let alone the world. Between 800 and 1700 CE, a plethora of Mahabharatas were created in Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, and several other regional South Asian languages. Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative is a comprehensive study of premodern regional Mahabharata retellings. This book argues that Vaishnavas (devotees of the Hindu god Vishnu and his various forms) throughout South Asia turned this epic about an apocalyptic, bloody war into works of ardent bhakti or

Table of Contents:
CONTENTS Acknowledgments Note on Terms and Transliteration Introduction Part I 1. Setting the Scene: Interpretations of Krishna in the Sanskrit Mahabharata 2. Many (Krishna-Centric) Mahabharatas: An Overview of Premodern Regional Retellings Part II 3. Commencing and Concluding the Carita of Krishna: The First and Final Books of Villi's Paratam and Chauhan's Mahabharat 4. Prayers and Protection: Draupadi's Disrobing and the Book of Effort in Villi's Paratam and Chauhan's Mahabharat Part III 5. Beginning with Bhakti: Invocations and the Shrivaishnava Tradition in Villi's Paratam 6. Remembering Rama: The Role of Tulsidas's Ramayanas in Chauhan's Mahabharat Conclusion Appendix: Glossary of Characters Bibliography Index

About the Author :
Sohini Sarah Pillai is Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Her co-edited volume (with Nell Shapiro Hawley), Many Mahabharatas, was published in 2021 by State University of New York Press.

Review :
An empirically rich and detailed study of regional Mahabharatas, Sohini Pillais Krishna's Mahabharatas is a major contribution to scholarship on Hindu epic and devotional traditions. Bringing together two understudied texts composed in Tamil and Bhasha, Pillai traces the growing devotional emphasis given to the figure of Krishna in regional Mahabharatas, reshaping how we view the project of vernacularization and the growth of bhakti in the second millennium. Sohini Pillai boldly tackles the complexities of the unruly epic's chaotic development over millennia, and even more daunting, its ever-expanding retellings. She masterfully juggles the broad perspective with an acute eye for detail. At the heart of the work is a comparison between a Tamil and a Hindi retelling, influential respectively in contemporary performances in Tamil Nadu in South India and Chhattisgarh in the North, including by Dalit groups. Written engagingly in a broadly accessible way, the book also offers selections from a number of lesser-known retellings to delight the connoisseur. In Krishna's Mahabharatas Sohini Pillai takes the trajectory of bhakti as it winds its way through the sub-continent seriously, and examines its narrative path in very different geographical locations and languages, revealing its shared landscape, thus helping us theorize bhakti from the ground up in ways which have not been attempted before. This is a work of meticulous and deeply original, textual scholarship and a fitting successor to the work of those such as Friedhelm Hardy, showing us the pan-Indian shared literary landscape and tropes of Krishna-ite devotion, much after the Bhagavatapurana. Scholars of Sanskrit epics and devotional literature will welcome Sohini Pillai's insightful book which illuminates the epic's richness by analyzing Villiputturar's Tamil Paratam and Chauhan's Bhasha Mahabharat. She breaks down the rigid boundaries that separate south and north Indian bhakti texts by documenting the mythological, episodic, and rhetorical strategies that both poets deployed to transform a gruesome tale of war into a celebration of Krishna. Pillai walks the fine line of comprehensiveness with readability very well throughout her monograph, anchoring her narrative in Krishna and his role in the Mahabharata and is a wonderful contribution to epic studies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780197753552
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Series Title: AAR Religion in Translation
  • Sub Title: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative
  • Width: 150 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0197753558
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2024
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 567 gr


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