{"product_id":"raja-yudhisthira-kingship-in-epic-mahabharata-9789386392732","title":"Raja Yudhisthira: Kingship in Epic Mahabharata","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kevin McGrath\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRaja Yudhi??hira\u003c\/em\u003e, Kevin McGrath brings his literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e to bear on the representation of kingship in the epic. He shows how the \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary polity and how the king becomes a ruler who is seen as ritually divine. McGrath then addresses the idea of heroic religion in antiquity and the present, for bronze-age heroes still receive great devotional worship in modern India and communities continue to clash at the sites that have been—for millennia—associated with these epic figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e One of the most important contributions of \u003cem\u003eRaja Yudhi??hira\u003c\/em\u003e is the revelation that neither of the contesting side of the royal Hastinapura clan triumphs in the end, for it is the Yadava band of K???a that achieves real victory. That is, it is the matriline and not the patriline that secures ultimate success: it is the kinship group of K???a—the heroic figure who was to become the dominant Vai??ava icon of classical India—who benefits most from the terrible Bharata war. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e This book will appeal to scholars in the field of \u003cem\u003eMahabharata\u003c\/em\u003e Studies as well as to students of early Hinduism and of late bronze-age cultural and political tradition. It will also be of interest to scholars of early Indian history, kinship, religious studies, and poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45616491200663,"sku":"9789386392732","price":1316.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789386392732.webp?v=1769294934","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/raja-yudhisthira-kingship-in-epic-mahabharata-9789386392732","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}