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In this enthralling retelling of India's greatest epic, the Mahabharata, originally known as Jaya, the author seamlessly weaves into a single narrative plots from the Sanskrti classic as well as its many folk and regional variants, including the Pandavani of Chhattisgrah, Gondhal of Maharashtra, Terukkutu of Tamil Nadu, and Yakshagana of Karnataka.
Richly illustrated with over 250 line drawings by the author, the 108 chapters abound with little-known details such as the names of the hundred Kauravas, the worship of Draupadi as a goddess in Tamil Nadu, the stories of Astika, Madhavi, Jaimini, Iravan and Barbareek, the Mahabharata version of the Shakuntalam and the Ramayana, and the dating of the war based on astronomical data.
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