Friday, November 25, 2016

Overview: Grassi. Mahabharata.

Title: The Great Golden Sacrifice of the Mahabharata
Author: Maggi Lidchi Grassi
Year: 2011
Length: You can use this for 1 or 2 or more weeks of reading.
Bizzell: There is a copy available for checkout from the regular Bizzell stacks: BL 1138.25 .L53 2011 (click to see if it is checked out or not), and it's also available on the Bizzell Kindles.

Find out more at Random House India, and you can learn about the author at Wikipedia: Maggi Lidchi Grassi. There is an interview with the author at the Indian Express, and there is also a book review by Samhita Arni at DNA India. The book also figures prominently in this essay at Jabberwock: Epic fictions: the Rashomon-like world of the Mahabharata.




Amazon:
Kindle book

Length: You can read this for one or two weeks, or for all six weeks! You'll see that the reading is divided into 16 parts below, and you can choose the parts of the Mahabharata  that you are most interested in.

WEEK 1:
Reading A
Ashwatthama Speaks 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
Reading B
Ashwatthama Speaks 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14

WEEK 2:
Reading C
Ashwatthama Speaks 15 - 16 - Arjuna Speaks 17 - 18 - 19
Reading D
Arjuna Speaks 20 - 21

WEEK 3: 
Reading E
Arjuna Speaks 22 - 23 - 24
Reading F
Arjuna Speaks 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - Ashwatthaman Speaks - 29 - Arjuna Speaks 30

WEEK 4: 
Reading G
Yuddha Parva 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7
Reading H
Yuddha Parva 8 - 9 - 10 -  11

WEEK 5: 
Reading I
Yuddha Parva 12 - 13 - 14 - 15
Reading J
Yuddha Parva 16 - 17 - 18 - 19 - 20 - After the War 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25

WEEK 6:
Reading K
After the War 26 - 27 - 28 - 29 - 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35
Reading L
Ashwamedha Parva 36 - 37 - 38 - 39

WEEK 7:
Reading M
Great Golden Sacrifice 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9
Reading N
Great Golden Sacrifice 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 - 18

WEEK 8:
Reading O

Great Golden Sacrifice 19 - 20 - Dwaraka 21 - 22 - 23 - 24 - 25 - 26 - 27 - 28 - 29
Reading P
Great Golden Sacrifice 30 - 31 - 32 - 33 - 34 - 35 - 36 - 37 - 38 - 39




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