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‘Nature’ in the Epic The Mahâbhârata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Gilles Schaufelberger  and
Guy Vincent
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Abstract

The Mahâbhârata is a fundamental reference for Indian culture. Because of its philosophical scope and encyclopaedic character it is in many respects universal, offering scope for study and comparison to those in the fields of law, ethnology, mythology, geography, the arts and philosophy. The authors sketch the conception of nature as it appears in several texts in the first volume: ‘The Sacrifice of Serpents’, ‘The Pilgrim's Guide’, ‘Skanda’.

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Diogenes , Volume 52 , Issue 3 , August 2005 , pp. 141 - 143
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Copyright © ICPHS 2005

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Notes

1. The Mahâbhârata, text translated from the Sanskrit and annotated by G. Schaufelberger and G. Vincent, Quebec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2004. Vol. I: La Genèse du monde, April 2004; vol. II: Rois et guerriers, January 2005; Vol. III: Les Révélations, forthcoming in October 2005.

2. Ibid., I, pp. 687-91.

3. Ibid., I, pp. 548-54.

4. Ibid., I, p. 184.

5. Ibid., I, pp. 447-60.

6. Ibid., I, pp. 379-82.

7. Ibid., I, pp. 637-41.