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The greatest Indian story ever told of a war between two factions of a family, the Mahabharata has continued to capture the imagination of readers over centuries. While the dispute over land and kingdom between the warring cousins—the Pandavas and the Kauravas—forms the chief narrative,\nthe primary concern of the Mahabharata is about the conflicts of dharma. These conflicts are immense and various, singular and commonplace. Throughout the epic, characters face them with no clear indications of what is right and what is wrong; there are no absolute answers.\n\n\nGiven its formidable length of 80,000 shlokas, with innumerable subplots that accommodate fascinating meanderings and digressions, the epic has rarely been translated in full. Bibek Debroy makes the Mahabharata marvellously accessible to contemporary readers in this premium collector’s edition.
Bibek Debroy is a renowned economist, scholar and translator. He has worked in universities, research institutes, industry and for the government. He has widely published books, papers and articles on economics. As a translator, he is best known for his magnificent rendition of the Mahabharata in ten volumes as well as the three-volume Valmiki Ramayana-both of which have been published to wide acclaim by Penguin Classics. He is also the author of Sarama and Her Children, which splices his interest in Hinduism with his love for dogs. Most recently, he translated the Bhagavata Purana and the Markandeya Purana for Penguin Classics.
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