The Difficulty of Being Good by Das, Gurcharan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Copyright Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS A NOTE ON RENDERING SANSKRIT INTO ENGLISH THE CENTRAL STORY OF THE MAHABHARATA DRAMATIS PERSONAE GENEALOGICAL TABLE CHRONOLOGY PRELUDE

I take an academic holiday

1. DURYODHANA’S ENVY

2. DRAUPADI’S COURAGE

‘Whom did you lose first, yourself or me?’

3. YUDHISHTHIRA’S DUTY

‘I act because I must’

4. ARJUNA’S DESPAIR

‘There are no victors in war’

5. BHISHMA’S SELFLESSNESS

‘Be intent on the act, not on its fruits’

6. KARNA’S STATUS ANXIETY

How could a doe give birth to a tiger?

7. KRISHNA’S GUILE

‘That is the way it is!’

8. ASHWATTHAMA’S REVENGE

‘Now I feel the whirligig of Time’

9. YUDHISHTHIRA’S REMORSE

‘This victory feels more like defeat to me’

10. MAHABHARATA’S DHARMA

‘Great king, you weep with all creatures’

CONCLUSION

The difficulty of being good

DHARMA—THE STORY OF A WORD A SHORT BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY NOTES

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