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Epic Mythology

Categorie	Religie & Theologie
Boeknummer	#388825
Titel	Epic Mythology
Auteur	Hopkins, E. Washburn
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Delhi/Varanasi/Patna : Motilal Banarsidass
Jaar van uitgave	1974
ISBN10	0842605606
ISBN13	9780842605601
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original boards, 8vo.
Samenvatting	This volume strikes a new note in the study of Indian epics-the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In it, for the first time, mythology is dissociated from the running threads of both the epic texts. The mythology of the two epics of India represents in general the belief of the people of Northern India along the lower Ganges within a few centuries of the Christian era. For the Mahabharata, the time from 300 B. C. to 400 A. D. The Mahabharata as a whole is later than the Ramayana, which is metrically more advanced and the work of one author. The rougher epic form of the Mahabharata, represents a life less rude than depicted in the Ramayana, and work of many hands and of different times. Epic mythology is, however, is fairly consistent. There is no great discrepancy between the character of any one god in the Mahabharata and that of the same god in Ramayana. Nor is the character of gods very different in different parts of the Mahabharata, save for the sectarian tendency to invert the positions of the three highest gods in favour of the sect.
Pagina's	274
Conditie	Redelijk — Brown stain on page 273-274, front board and top cut, few underlining on margins.
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