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Book Review: Mahabharata- Volume 9
The penultimate volume – 9 – in Dr. Debroy’s series of unabridged translation of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute’s Critical Edition of the Mahabharata is long, over seven hundred pages, and over eight thousand shlokas. It contains approximately six thousand shlokas of Moksha-dharma Parva and two-and-a-half thousand shlokas from Dana-dharma Parva – both from Anushasan Parva. As has been the trait of all preceding volumes, the text is easy to read, without any of the archaic forms of addressal and pronouns like “thee”, “thou”, etc…. The text is accompanied by copious footnotes, over a thousand, so many doubts are nipped in the bud.
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