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Podcast: New Books in Indian Religions
Episode: Brian Black, "In Dialogue with the MahÄbhÄrata" (Routledge, 2020)
Description: This book offers the first extensive study of the dialogue form in the MahÄbhÄrata. Despite its importance, the variety of uses and implications of dialogue in the MahÄbhÄrata remain relatively unexplored, which leaves a significant gap in the understanding of this key work of Indian literature. Dialogue is a recurring and significant feature of Indian religious and philosophical literature generally, but nowhere is it explored more elaborately and more profoundly than in the MahÄbhÄrata.Ā Brian Black'sĀ In Dialogue with the MahÄbhÄrataĀ (Routledge, 2020), therefore, examines the details of some of the central...