Raja Yudhisthira: Kingship in Epic Mahabharata

by Kevin McGrath

In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary polity and how the king becomes a ruler who is viewed as ritually divine. Based on his precise and empirical close reading of the text, McGrath...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501704982
• ISBN13: 9781501704987
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher