Epic Mythology Chaukhamba Orientalia of the human quest for

of the human quest for enlightenment wherever records had survived

FROM THE RIGVEDA

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

he was given the name Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi by the famed Poet- Saint Ganpati-Muni

Epic Mythology Chaukhamba Orientalia of the human quest forThis 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