Strī : women in epic Mahābhārata / Kevin McGrath.
By: McGrath, Kevin.
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TextSeries: Ilex Foundation series: 2.Publisher: Boston, Mass. : New Delhi : Washington, D.C. : Cambridge, Mass. : Ilex Foundation ; Orient BlackSwan ; Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University ; Distributed by Harvard University Press, c2009Description: viii, 232 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9780674031982 (pbk.); 9788125042792; 0674031989 (pbk.).Subject(s): Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Mahābhārata | Women in the Mahābhārata | Women in literature | Sex role in literature | Sex role in literature | Women in literature | Women in the MahābhārataGenre/Form: Criticism, interpretation, etc.DDC classification: 294.5923046 Summary: This volume is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the role 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-228) and index.
This volume is a study of heroic femininity as it appears in the epic Mahabharata, and focuses particularly on the role of wife, daughter-in-law, and mother, on how these women speak and on the kinship groups and varying marital systems that surround them.
In English, includes passages from Sanskrit.