Book, Chapter

 1   1  |       Tournament)~THE scene of the Epic is the ancient kingdom of
 2   1  |       historical fact on which the Epic is based is a great war
 3   1  |           Christ.~According to the Epic, Pandu and Dhrita-rashtra,
 4   1  |         the leading thought of the Epic, as the rivalry between
 5   1  |            Book i. of the original Epic in Sanscrit (Calcutta edition
 6   3  |          the main incidents of the Epic, Draupadi might rather be
 7   5  |            form the subject of the Epic Ramayana;-these and various
 8   5  |       unity and conciseness of the Epic, impart a moral instruction
 9   9  |           stirring passages in the Epic. The description of the
10  10  |    crowning incident of the Indian Epic, as the contest between
11  12  |   Sacrifice of the Horse)~THE real Epic ends with the war and the
12  12  |  one-fourth of the entire Sanscrit Epic!~The reason of adding all
13  12  |       recent matter to the ancient Epic is not far to seek. The
14  12  |            is not far to seek. The Epic became more popular with
15  12  |         therefore to insert in the Epic itself their rules of caste
16  12  |         venerable character in the Epic than Bhishma, and these
17  12  |           form no part of the real Epic, they are not a portion
18  12  |           the leading story of the Epic, and we pass them by.~Bhishma
19  12  |          forms no part of the real Epic, and we pass it by.~Yudhishthir
20  12  |           leading incidents of the Epic the last great and crowning
21 End  |                CONCLUSION~THE real Epic ends with the war and with
22 End  |           sense a part of the real Epic; it consists merely of concluding
23 End  |            concluding Books of the Epic, the Great Journey and the
24 Epi  |       which is the subject of this Epic is believed to have been
25 Epi  |      narrative form and formed the Epic of the Great Bharata nation,
26 Epi  |            the fabric of the great Epic.~We should have been thankful
27 Epi  |         have been thankful if this Epic, as it was thus originally
28 Epi  |            this was not to be. The Epic became so popular that it
29 Epi  |         desired to have in the old Epic some sanction for the new
30 Epi  |            wings of this wonderful Epic; and as Krishna-worship
31 Epi  |         decay of Buddhism, the old Epic caught the complexion of
32 Epi  |         together in the form of an Epic; until the crystal rill
33 Epi  |            the crystal rill of the Epic itself was all but lost
34 Epi  |    mischief had been done, and the Epic had nearly assumed its present
35 Epi  |          work. The contents of the Epic were described in some prefatory
36 Epi  |            have been made; and the Epic as printed and published
37 Epi  |            concluding books of the Epic is familiar to a larger
38 Epi  |        complete translation of the Epic into English prose has also
39 Epi  |    reference.~But although the old Epic had thus been spoilt by
40 Epi  |         and characters of the real Epic are still discernible, uninjured
41 Epi  |   impossible to exhume this buried Epic from the superincumbent
42 Epi  |           leading narrative of the Epic forms about one-fourth of
43 Epi  |          The main incidents of the Epic are narrated in the original
44 Epi  |           leading narrative of the Epic, at that narrative itself
45 Epi  |        these main incidents of the Epic would bear a full and unabridged
46 Epi  |            the entire story of the Epic to the modem reader in a
47 Epi  |            version of the original Epic, but the condensation would
48 Epi  |          the main incidents of the Epic, and they describe those
49 Epi  |          the main incidents of the Epic.~From this method I have
50 Epi  |          war. No translation of an Epic relating to a great war
51 Epi  |         the other incidents of the Epic, have been narrated in the
52 Epi  |           adopted in presenting an Epic of ninety~thousand Sanscrit
53 Epi  |           welcome, after the great Epic has been so often translated
54 Epi  | translation. Much of tile Sanscrit Epic is written in the well-known
55 Epi  |          the translation of an old Epic whose predominating characteristic
56 Epi  |           well as the other Indian Epic, the Ramayana) from all
57 Epi  |         the Achilles of the Indian Epic. The proud and unyielding
58 Epi  |            the women of the Indian Epic possess characters as marked
59 Epi  |       reader, the incidents of the Epic are no less striking. Every
60 Epi  |        scene of this venerable old Epic impresses itself on the
61 Epi  |          the crowning event of the Epic, the final contest between
62 Epi  |           Karna, the heroes of the Epic, and the war ends in a midnight
63 Epi  |          tales interspersed in the Epic, and which spoil the work
64 Epi  |         which spoil the work as an Epic, have themselves a charm