Fwd: [JNUFML] Discussion on: The Voice of Vyāsa: Viewing the Mahābhārata as an itihāsa

[diwakar mishra]

Sanskrit People should attend this lecture. Such researches can be carried out by Sanskrit students also and that should be more authentic as they can go deeper in the text.

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Date: 2013/8/25
Subject: [JNUFML] Discussion on: The Voice of Vyāsa: Viewing the Mahābhārata as an itihāsa
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Dear Friends,

The next discussion of the forum will be held on 31.08.2013 and the details of the discussion as given below.

The Voice of Vyāsa: Viewing the Mahābhārata as an itihāsa”

Abstract

The Mahābhārata has been interpreted differently by various scholars. Some consider it as a text whose layers should be separated to find out an historical kernel, some view it as a synthetic whole. It has been variously seen as a history of the Kurus, as a literary creation based on the śānta rasa, as an extension of Indo-European mythology, or as a Brahmanical reaction against heterodox religions. However, a careful survey of the text, by analyzing its internal evidence and comparing it with other corroborative sources may be useful to historically locate the history of its text-creation in various stages by various authors.

 

In that history, a very significant factor seems to be its attributed author, Vyāsa. The paper tries to show the intricacies of that attribution which is crucial for the text’s assertion of a new philosophy of behavioural fitness and ability over the crystallizing Brahmanical notion of hereditary varṇa. The paper also discusses how this fresh and unusual voice makes the text an epoch-making one in tradition, representative of the end of an era, the juncture in history when ‘past’ ends and ‘future’ begins.

Speaker:  Kanad Sinha, Research Scholar, CHS, SSS, JNU

Venue:  Committee Room, JNU Central Library

Date and Time: 31st August 2013 (Saturday), 4:30 pm

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