• ISBN13: 9788171561483
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: N/A
• Publication Date: August 21, 2000
• Pages: 184
• Original Price: INR 275.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 170 grams

The work maintains just the convenient middle course between the simple narrative of the Mahabharata story and the researches into its truth. The analysis marks well a passage from the myth stage of those ancient legends of India to their scientific bearings upon the modern evolutions, often in significant digressions assessing their literary values. Of the 14 episodes selected here some deal with the human roles of Lord Krishna which declare readily his divinity, some the eugenic principles and the laws of marriage under the mask of myths, some the evolution of Rajtantra (kingship) from the state of nature and the succession problem of the monarchy of Heaven, one or two episodes the secrets of the sacrifice (Jajna) and at least one the principles of Dharma and one the concept of Death and disease afflicting earthly life and the scheme of the Creation thereof.

The author who did his Ph.D. in English at Calcutta now heads the Department of English, Katwa College Burdwan University, and has also to his credit some articles published in the London based Hinduism, three research works, A Trend in English Fiction, Firma KLM (Cal), Scenes in Nineteenth Century English Fiction, Associated Publishing House (Delhi), and The Latest Revelation in the East, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar (Cal) and a Pamphlet of 85 pages, The Second Coming.