Epic Mythology Chaukhamba Orientalia or if it seemed advisable

or if it seemed advisable to point out that they do not come from the Rigveda

and possess itself in fully self-explicated self-consciousness as the "Highest Truth" and unconditional nature of all existence

About the Author The late KAMALESWAR BHATTACHARYA was Directeur de Recherche at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris

FROM THE RIGVEDA

Epic Mythology Chaukhamba Orientalia or if it seemed advisableThis volume strikes a new note in the study of Indian epics the Ramayana and the Mahabharata. In it, for the first time, mythology is dissociated from the running threads of both epic texts. The mythology of the two epics of India represents in general the belief of the people of Northern India along the lower Ganges within a few centuries of the Christian era. For the Mahabharata, the time was from 300 B. C. to 400 A. D. The Mahabharata as a whole is