Battle, Bards and Brahmins Motilal Banarsidass The image on the cover

The image on the cover of the paperback edition of this volume is a homage to the Kali in Graham

clarifies that these modern ones are not nuns in the old sense of the Bhiksuni ceremony

It covers a very large field-Epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata

The political turmoil is the predominant reason for its non-circulation in the states of India which were cut off from Kashmir by foreign invasion and internal feuds and constant political unrest in the intervening countries

those who sell the Vedas (i

Battle, Bards and Brahmins Motilal Banarsidass The image on the coverThis volume, the second in the Proceedings of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference (Edinburgh, July 2006), reflects the continued increase in interest in the Sanskrit epics seen in recent years, containing no less than 19 articles (a number than in the corresponding volume from the 12th WSC at Helsinki) by a number of distinguished scholars in the section devoted to the Sanskrit pics. The great majority of the articles focus on the Mahabharata but some