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This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahābhārata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak, and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them.

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McGrath has produced a painstaking examination of how Kunti, Gandhari, Damayanti, Savitri, Amba and Shakuntala function in the Mahabharata as a true mirror for princes, intervening at critical junctures of the narrative to take it forward by proclaiming the true dharma of rulers...McGrath makes an important contribution in bringing out the importance of the matriline in the epic. -- Pradip Bhattacharya * The Statesman *

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A Paperback / softback by Kevin McGrath

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    Publisher: Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies
    Publication Date: 01/03/2009
    ISBN13: 9780674031982, 978-0674031982
    ISBN10: 0674031989
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    Literary studies: ancient, classical Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahābhārata, and focuses particularly on the roles of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak, and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them.

    Trade Review
    McGrath has produced a painstaking examination of how Kunti, Gandhari, Damayanti, Savitri, Amba and Shakuntala function in the Mahabharata as a true mirror for princes, intervening at critical junctures of the narrative to take it forward by proclaiming the true dharma of rulers...McGrath makes an important contribution in bringing out the importance of the matriline in the epic. -- Pradip Bhattacharya * The Statesman *

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