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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/220101003 Title: Mahabharata. Book six, Bhisma Author: Alex Cherniak Publisher: New York : New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2008-2009. ISBN/ISSN: 9780814732021 081473202X 9780814717059 0814717055 9780814716960 0814716962 OCLC:220101003

  
  

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Mahabharata. Book six, Bhisma

Author:	Alex Cherniak
Publisher:	New York : New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2008-2009.
Series:	Clay Sanskrit library, 37, 47.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	V.1. "'Bhishma, ' the sixth book of the eighteen-book epic "Maha·bhárata," narrates the first ten days of the great war between the Káuravas and the Pándavas. This first volume covers four days from the beginning of the great battle and includes the famous "Bhagavad Gita" ("Song of the Lord"), presented here within its original epic context. In this "bible" of Indian civilisation the charioteer Krishna empowers his disciple Árjuna to resolve his personal dilemma: whether to follow his righteous duty as a warrior and slay his opponent relatives in the just battle, or to abstain from fighting and renounce the warrior code to which he is born. The "Gita" culmintates in Krishna's theophany, when he reveals himself in the horrendous form of Death as the all-devouring fire of Time, a manifestation famously echoed by Oppenheimer when he witnessed the first atom bomb exploding. V.2. This second half of 'Bhishma' describes the events from the beginning of the fifth day till the end of the tenth of the great battle between the Káuravas and the Pándavas. Despite grandfather Bhishma's appeal to conclude peace with the Pándavas, Dur·yódhana continues the bloody battle. The key strategist is general Bhishma, commander of the Káurava forces. Even though he is compelled to fight on the side of the Káuravas, Bhishma's sympathies are with the Pándavas. After the ninth day of war, when Bhishma has wreaked havoc with their troops, the Pándavas realize that they will be unable to win as long as invincible Bhishma is alive. Bhishma willingly reveals to them how he can be destroyed. Strictly observing the warrior code, he will never fight with Shikhándin, because he was originally born a woman. Bhishma advises the Pándava brothers that Árjuna should strike him from behind Shikhándin's back, and they follow the grandfather's advice."--Pub. website.  Read more...
Subjects	Mahābhārata. -- Bhīṣmaparva -- Translations into English. Mahābhārata. -- Bhīṣmaparva. Mahābhārata. -- Bhīṣmaparva -- Translations into English.
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