Mahabharata Studies

Here are some of the studies on Mahabharata that I found interesting. You may download them by clicking on the link:

  1. Introducing the Mahabharata
  2. Introduction: The Critical Edition and its Critics - A retrospective of Mahabharata Scholarship, by Vishwa P. Adluri
  3. An Overview of Mahabharata Scholarship: A Perspective on the State of the Field, by Bruce M Sulllivan, 2016
  4. Argument and Design: THe Unity of the Mahabhrata, by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
  5. Critical Studies in the Mahabharata, by V.S. Sukthankar, 1944
  6. On the meaning of the Mahabharata, by V.S. Sukthankar, 1957
  7. Censorship and Censureship: Insiders, Outsiders, and the Attack on Bhandarkar Institute, by Adheesh Sathaye, 2006
  8. Reading the Fifth Veda: Studies on the Mahabharata - Essays by Alf Hilterbeitel, Volume 1. Edited by Vishwa Adluri & Joydeep Bagchee, 2011
  9. When the Goddess was a Woman: Mahabharata Ethnographies - Essays by Alf Hilterbeitel, Volume 2. Edited by Vishwa Adluri & Joydeep Bagchee, 2011
  10. Ways and Reasons for Thinking about the Mahabharata as a Whole, by Vishwa Adluri
  11. The Religious Authority of the Mahabharata: Vyasa and Brahma in the Hindu Scriptural Tradition, by Bruce M Sullivan
  12. Ends and Closures in the Mahabharata, by Tamar C Reich
  13. Frame Narratives and Forked Beginnings: Or, How to Read the Adiparvan, by Vishwa P. Adluri
  14. Battles, Bards and Brahmans: Papers from the Epics Section of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference, Edinburgh, 2006
  15. Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahabharata, by Julian F. Woods, 2001
  16. Geographical and Economic Studies in the Mahabharata: Upayana Parva, by Moti Chandra, 1945
  17. Astrological Key in Mahabharata, by Paule Lerner
  18. Astronomical Dating of the Mahabharata War, by Vedavyas
  19. The Date of the Mahabharata War and the Kali Yugadhi, by K. Srinivasa Raghavan, 1891
  20. In Search of Vyasa: The use of Greco-Roman Sources in Book 4 of the Mahabharata, by Fernando Wulff Alonso
  21. The Questionable Historicity of the Mahabharata, by SSN Murthy
  22. Yoga and the Mahabharata: Engaged Renouners, by Christopher Key Chapple
  23. The Other Kind of Brahman: Rama Jamadagnya and the Psychosocial Construction of Brahman Power in the Mahabharata, by Adheesh Sathaye
  24. How to become a Brahman: The construction of Varna as social place in the Mahabharata's legends of Vishvamitra, by Adheesh Sathaye
  25. The Story of Savitri in the Mahabharata: a Lineal Interpretation, by Simon Brodbeck
  26. Comments on Philipp A Maas, "Negotiating Efficiencies: Human Sacrifice, Karma and Asceticism in Jantu's Tale of the Mahabharata, by Vishwa Adluri, 
  27. Reinventing Orthopraxy and Practicing Worldly Dharma: Vasu and Ashoka in Book 14 of the Mahabharata, by Michael Baltutis, 2011
  28. Bhagavadgita: A Bird's Eye View of Its Historical Background, Formation and Teaching, by Niranjan Saha, 2018
  29. Paradigm Lost: The Application of the Historical-Critical Method to the Bhagavad Gita, by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
  30. Rajadharma in the Mahabharata, by Swapna Borah, 2012
  31. Philosophical Aspects of Bhakti in the Narayaniya, by Vishwa Adluri
  32. The Mahabharata and Dharma, by Adam Bowles
  33. Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India: The Apaddharmaparvan of the Mahabharata, by Adam Bowles,  2007
  34. The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's Great Epic Poem and the Hindu System of World Ages, by Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
  35. Time in the Mahabharata and the Time of the Mahabharata, by Luis Gonzalez-Reimann
  36. The Sanskrit Epics' Representation of Vedic Myths, Danielle Feller
  37. Mahabharata's Spatial Politics and the Khandavadahana, by Kanad Sinha, 2014
  38. Shiva
  39. "Doubling the Darkness": Ashvatthaman in the Mahabharata and Beyond, by Richard Batchelor
  40. Balarama's Pilgrimage to the Sacred Sites along the Saraswati, by Peter Szaler, 2017
  41. Shyama Draupadi, the Dynamic Twilight Iron-Lady
  42. Draupadi's Garments, by Alf Hiltebeitel
  43. Shakuntala: Texts, Readings and Histories, by Romila Thapar
  44. Conversations on Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness from the Mahabharata, by Rama Ramanuja Achari, 2017
  45. Interpolations in the Mahabharata, by M.A. Mehendale, 2001
  46. Management Principles from the Mahabharata: the Tragedy of Karna, by Bharat Bhushan, 2009
  47. The Mystery of the Mahabharata, by N.V. Thadani, 1931
  48. About Yogas and Yogis in Mahabharata, by G.H, Visweswara, 2017
  49. The Complex Nature of Religious Sacrifice in the Mahabharata, in the Bhagavadgita and in General: A Cross-Cultural Comparison Between Indian and Western Theories of Religious Sacrifice, by Lourens Minnema
  50. The Magic Weapon: Its Appearance, Acquisition and Application as Described in Texts of Hindu Tradition, by Agnieszka Staszczyk, 2014
  51. Reflections on the Upakhyanas in the Apaddharmaparvan of the Mahabharata, by Adam Bowles, 2016
  52. Ethical issues in the Mahabharata in the context of Dharma, by T.S. Rukmani

3 Comments

  1. Vishwanatha
    September 9, 2020 at 11:27 am

    Great compilation!! Really helpful for Mahabharata enthusiasts like me. Thank you!!

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