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List of Mahabharata-inspired literature

Started by jenil_gada 2 replies2 views
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I have tried to put together a list of Mahabharata-inspired literature, but, of course, it is far from exhaustive. Please feel free to drop in names of books which I should add here.

Adi Parva – Churning of the Queen by Amruta Patil After Kurukshetra by Mahasweta Devi And Now Let Me Sleep by P.K. Balakrishnan Arjuna: Saga of a Pandava Warrior by Anuja Chandramouli Asura: Tale of the Vanquished by Anand Neelakantan Duryodhan by Kaka Vidhate (original in Marathi) Gandhari Ki Atmakathha by Manu Sharma Jaya: An Illustrated Retelling of the Mahabharata by Devdutt Pattanaik Karna's Wife: The Outcast's Queen by Kavita Kane Mahabharata by C. Rajagopalachari Mahabharata by William Buck Mahabharat Ki Ek Saanjh by B.B.Aggarwal. Mrityunjaya, the death conqueror: The story of Karna by Sivaji Savanta (original in

Marathi) Parva by S.L. Bhyrappa Rethinking the Mahabharata by Alf Hiltebeitel The Aryavrata Chronicles: Govinda (Book 1) The Aryavarta Chronicles: Kaurava (Book 2) The Book of Yudhishthir The Cult of Draupadi Vol I by Alf Hiltebeitel The Cult of Draupadi Vol II by Alf Hiltebeitel The Difficulty of Being Good by Gurucharan Das The Forest of Stories by Ashok K. Banker (MBA1) The Great Golden Sacrifice of The Mahabharata (Hardcover) by Maggi Lidchi-Grassi

The Great Indian Novel by Shashi Tharoor The Mahabharata (2 Vols):A Modern Rendering 01 Edition (Hardcover) by Ramesh Menon The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition 1st Edition (Hardcover) by Chaturvedi Badrinath The Mahabharata: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (Paperback) by R. K. Narayan The Mahabharata (Volume - 1) by Bibek Debroy The Mahabharata by Meera Uberoi The Mahabharata: Re-Imagined by Trisha Das The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

The Pregnant King by Devdutt Pattnaik The Second Turn by M.T.Vasudevan Nair (original in Malyalam) The Seeds of War by Ashok K. Banker (MBA2) Thus Spake Bhishma by M.M.Thakur Women of the Mahabharata by Badrinath Chaturvedi Yajnaseni by Pratibha Ray Yudhishthir and Draupadi by Pavan K. Varma Yugandhar by Shivaji Sawant Yuganta by Irawati Karve

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Thanks a ton man...I am big fan of Mahabharta related works

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