bharata

Seeking authenticity, he studied bharata nātyam with master instructor Uday Shankar (Ravi's uncle), attaining expertise.

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_Maha-bharata_ might be more acceptable to the modern reader.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

In the _Maha-bharata_ we find just the reverse; each hero has a distinct individuality, a character of his own, clearly discernible from that of other heroes.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

_Maha-bharata_ and the _Ramayana_, will be placed without hesitation by the side of Homer by critics who survey the world's literatures from a lofty standpoint, and judge impartially of the wares turned out by the hand of man in all parts of the globe.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

And if the characters of the _Maha-bharata_ impress themselves on the reader, the incidents of the Epic are no less striking.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

Indeed, the _Maha-bharata_ would lose that unadorned simplicity which is its first and foremost feature if the translator ventured to decorate it with the art of the modern day, even if he had been qualified to do so.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

The war of the _Maha-bharata_ was a series of eighteen battles, fought on eighteen consecutive days, and I felt it necessary to present the reader with an account of each day's work.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

Homer has an interest for the European reader which the _Maha-bharata_ cannot lay claim to; as the father of European poetry he has a claim on the veneration of modern Europe which an Indian poet can never pretend to.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

It was necessary to adopt such a metre in order to transfer something of the truth about the _Maha-bharata_ into

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878

_Maha-bharata_, practically unknown to European readers.

Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878