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Index
Title Page
Copyright page
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
BOOK ONE: Adi Parva
On the banks of the Ganga
A tale of two curses
The river’s son
A scent of heaven
A solemn vow
Two princes
Three princesses of Kasi
Bheeshma and Amba
Amba
The solemn oath
Satyavati’s other son
The blind night and the pale one
In the dark
The three princes of Hastinapura
Kuntibhoja’s daughter
The blazing Deva
A curse in the forest
Pandu’s yearning
Kunti’s unworldly lovers
The sons of Pandu
The sinister night
Sweet, deadly spring
The Pandavas come home
The seeds of envy
At Pramanakoti
Under the river
A master for the Kuru princes
Drona’s story
The brilliant pupil
At the river
Ekalavya
A young man’s dreams
Karna finds a master
The exhibition
The golden warrior
Drona’s revenge
A father and his son
To Varanasi
The palace of lac
Fire
The tragic news
Flight through the jungle
A change of heart
Ghatotkacha
A sleepy town
A strange story
Encounter in the night
The spinning fish
‘Share the alms you’ve brought’
The unusual wedding
Anxiety in Hastinapura
The council at Hastinapura
Vidura in Kampilya
A desolate gift
Miracle in the wilderness
Narada visits Indraprastha
Ulupi and Chitrangadaa
The crocodiles
The Raivataka hill
The holy yati
The yati and the princess
Cure for an illness
Balarama’s anger
Draupadi’s anger
The Yadavas come to Indraprastha
The hungry brahmana
The burning of the Khandava vana
BOOK TWO: Sabha Parva
Mayaa
Mayaa’s sabha
Narada, the messenger
Yudhishtira’s quandary
Krishna arrives in Indraprastha
Jarasandha
Girivraja
The blade of grass
The four quarters
The Rajasuya yagna
A cousin’s anger
Dark omens
The green monster
Shakuni’s plan
An anxious messenger
The game of dice
Shame
‘Am I a free woman?’
The miracle and the oaths
Dhritarashtra’s fickleness
The second game of dice
BOOK THREE: Vana Parva
The Sun’s gift
The king’s brother
The rishis’ warning
Krishna swears an oath
Dwaitavana
The trials of Yudhishtira
Vyasa’s advice
Arjuna’s quest
The vetala
The Lords of light
Amravati
The weapons of Indra
The apsara Urvashi
The curse
The Muni Brihadaswa
Tirtha yatra*
To Badarikasrama
An old monkey
Where the saugandhika grows
Arjuna returns
Arjuna’s story
The wondrous city
Hiranyapuri
Bheema’s adventure
The riddles of Nahusha
Markandeya’s lore*
The four yugas
The foolish brahmana
Duryodhana’s ghosha-yatra
The shaming of Duryodhana
Despair
The powers of darkness
The Rishi Durvasa
Jayadratha
The lake of death
Yaksha prasna: the yaksha’s riddles
BOOK FOUR: Virata Parva
The thirteenth year
Kanka, the gambler
Ajnatavasa
The cook and the wrestler
Karna’s dream
The brahmana at noon
The queen’s sairandhri
The besotted Keechaka
Ballava’s night visitor
The long day
The angry gandharvas
Duryodhana’s spies
Virata’s battle
The prince and the eunuch
Uttara Kumara
Unearthly weapons
Dissension
The Kuru army
Arjuna
A gambler’s blood
The Pandavas
A wedding in Upaplavya
Glossary
Appendix
Title Page
Copyright page
Contents
BOOK FIVE: Udyoga Parva
The council in Upaplavya
A choice for two kshatriyas
‘Everyone seems to know me’
The two armies
The messengers
The Pandavas’ reply
A blind king’s terror
Sanjaya delivers a message
‘Not land to cover the point of a needle’
A second council in Upaplavya
Krishna arrives in Hastinapura
In Vidura’s house
In the court of Hastinapura
Duryodhana and Krishna
‘I am not alone’
Krishna and Karna
The Pandava Senapati
The Kaurava Senapati
On the banks of Yamuna
‘Come away to your brothers’
For love of his friend
Balarama and Rukmi
Uluka’s embassy
BOOK SIX * : Bheeshma Parva
Sanjaya’s gift
Kurukshetra
A moment of crisis
The Bhagavad Gita
The Song of God
The Bhagavad Gita
The Bhagavad Gita
The Song of God
The Bhagavad Gita
The ghastly war
The second day: two kraunchas
The third day: the eagle and the crescent
The fourth day. Bheema and his son
The fifth and sixth days
The seventh day: many duels
The eighth day: the field of death
Duryodhana’s despair
The ninth day: the terrible patriarch
The last night of an age
The tenth morning
The bed of arrows
‘I never hated you’
BOOK SEVEN: Drona Parva
Drona, Senapati
The eleventh day
Susharma
Bhagadatta’s elephant
An ancient and his beast
Drona’s vow
The chakra vyuha
Jayadratha’s moment
Abhimanyu
Arjuna’s vow
Jayadratha’s terror
Arjuna’s dream
The three vyuhas
Arjuna the magnificent
At the rim of the red lotus
Deep into the enemy’s army
The sound of Krishna’s conch
Terrible Satyaki
Yudhishtira’s anxiety
Bheema arrives
Karna and Bheema
Satyaki and Bhoorisravas
The setting sun
The war at night
Karna, Kripa and Aswatthama
Awesome Karna
Ghatotkacha rules the night
Indra’s Shakti
Drona
One white lie
Recriminations
Narayanastra
BOOK EIGHT: Karna Parva
Senapati Karna
Many duels
The lucid night
Shalya
The two brothers
In Yudhishtira’s tent
The tastiest drink
Karna and Arjuna
The mired wheel
The sorrowing sun
Out under the moon
BOOK NINE: Shalya Parva
Kripa and his sishya
Tameless Shalya
The last men
The Dwaipayana lake
Magnificent Duryodhana
The two cousins
At Samantapanchaka
The clarity of Krishna
BOOK TEN: Sauptika Parva
In Hastinapura
The white owl’s lesson
The savage camp
Aswatthama’s jewel
BOOK ELEVEN: Stree Parva
With Dhritarashtra and Gandhari
Gandhari’s curse
Tarpana for a kshatriya
BOOKS TWELVE and THIRTEEN: Shanti Parva and Anusasana Parva *
Yudhishtira’s grief
A new king in Hastinapura
The dying patriarch
Bheeshma’s wisdom *
Dharma
The passing of a patriarch
BOOK FOURTEEN: Aswamedha Parva
Krishna says farewell
The Aswamedha yagna
BOOK FIFTEEN: Asramavasika Parva
The passing of the elders
BOOK SIXTEEN: Mausala Parva
Ritual at Prabhasa
Krishna
Arjuna’s anguish
BOOK SEVENTEEN: Mahaprasthanika Parva
The final journey
BOOK EIGHTEEN: Swargarohanika Parva
The law of heaven
Phalasruti
Glossary
Appendix
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