Mahabharata Book Twelve (Volume 3): Peace Part Two: The Book of Liberation

The Book of Liberation is perhaps the most enigmatic philosophical text from ancient India. Presented as the teachings of Bhishma as he lies dying on the battlefield, after the epic war between the Pándavas and Káuravas, it was composed by unknown authors in the last centuries BCE, during the early period of world-renunciation, when peripatetic sages meditated under trees and practiced austerities in forest groves, and wandering sophists debated in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081479453X
• ISBN13: 9780814794531
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
• Length: 626 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.4" x 6.5"