Nell Shapiro Hawley is Preceptor in Sanskrit at Harvard University. Sohini Sarah Pillai is a PhD candidate in South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Many Mahābhāratas is aimed at specialists in the epic, who will appreciate this volume's inclusion of new voices alongside established ones, its expansion of disciplinary perspectives, and the satisfying continuities that unite the essays, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts." — Reading Religion"Overall, the anthology is an excellent read. It thoroughly enriches and updates the field of Mahābhārata Studies. This is a groundbreaking volume assembling a range of eminent scholarship." — Religious Studies Review

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationForewordPaula Richman1. An Introduction to the Literature of the MahābhārataNell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah PillaiPart I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata2. Ā Garbhāt: Murderous Rage and Collective Punishment as Thematic Elements in Vyāsa's MahābhārataRobert Goldman3. The Invention of IrāvānDavid Gitomer4. Bodies That Don't Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of SulabhāSally J. Sutherland GoldmanPart II: Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in Poetry and Performance5. The Remembered Self: Arjuna as Bṛhannalā in the PañcarātraNell Shapiro Hawley6. The Lord of Glory and the Lord of Men: Power and Partiality in Māgha's ŚiśupālavadhaLawrence McCrea7. What Are the Goals of Life? The Vidūṣaka's Interpretation of the Puruṣārthas in Kulaśekhara's SubhadrādhanañjayaSudha Gopalakrishnan8. How Do We Remember Śakuntalā? The Mahābhārata and Kālidāsa's Drama on the Contemporary Indian StageAmanda CulpPart III: Regional and Vernacular Mahābhāratas from Premodern South Asia9. An Old Dharma in a New Age: Duryodhana and the Reframing of Epic Ethics in Ranna's SāhasabhīmavijayaTimothy Lorndale10. Three Poets, Two Languages, One Translation: The Evolution of the Telugu MahābhāratamuHarshita Mruthinti Kamath11. The Fate of Kīcaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha MahābhāratasEva De Clercq and Simon Winant12. The Power-Politics of Desire and Revenge: A Classical Hindi Kīcakavadha Performance at the Tomar Court of GwaliorHeidi Pauwels13. Blessed Beginnings: Invoking Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, and Rāma in Two Regional MahābhāratasSohini Sarah PillaiPart IV: Mahābhāratas of Modern South Asia14. How to Be Political without Being Polemical: The Debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the KṛṣṇacaritraAhona Panda15. The Epic and the Novel: Buddhadev Bose's Modern Reading of the MahābhārataSudipta Kaviraj16. Draupadī, Yājñasenī, Pāñcālī, Kṛṣṇ ā: Representations of an Epic Heroine in Three NovelsPamela Lothspeich17. From Excluded to Exceptional: Caste in Contemporary MahābhāratasSucheta Kanjilal18. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The Mahābhārata as Dystopian FuturePhilip LutgendorfBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Nell Shapiro Hawley is Preceptor in Sanskrit at Harvard University. Sohini Sarah Pillai is a PhD candidate in South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Many Mahābhāratas is aimed at specialists in the epic, who will appreciate this volume's inclusion of new voices alongside established ones, its expansion of disciplinary perspectives, and the satisfying continuities that unite the essays, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts." — Reading Religion"Overall, the anthology is an excellent read. It thoroughly enriches and updates the field of Mahābhārata Studies. This is a groundbreaking volume assembling a range of eminent scholarship." — Religious Studies Review

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationForewordPaula Richman1. An Introduction to the Literature of the MahābhārataNell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah PillaiPart I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata2. Ā Garbhāt: Murderous Rage and Collective Punishment as Thematic Elements in Vyāsa's MahābhārataRobert Goldman3. The Invention of IrāvānDavid Gitomer4. Bodies That Don't Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of SulabhāSally J. Sutherland GoldmanPart II: Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in Poetry and Performance5. The Remembered Self: Arjuna as Bṛhannalā in the PañcarātraNell Shapiro Hawley6. The Lord of Glory and the Lord of Men: Power and Partiality in Māgha's ŚiśupālavadhaLawrence McCrea7. What Are the Goals of Life? The Vidūṣaka's Interpretation of the Puruṣārthas in Kulaśekhara's SubhadrādhanañjayaSudha Gopalakrishnan8. How Do We Remember Śakuntalā? The Mahābhārata and Kālidāsa's Drama on the Contemporary Indian StageAmanda CulpPart III: Regional and Vernacular Mahābhāratas from Premodern South Asia9. An Old Dharma in a New Age: Duryodhana and the Reframing of Epic Ethics in Ranna's SāhasabhīmavijayaTimothy Lorndale10. Three Poets, Two Languages, One Translation: The Evolution of the Telugu MahābhāratamuHarshita Mruthinti Kamath11. The Fate of Kīcaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha MahābhāratasEva De Clercq and Simon Winant12. The Power-Politics of Desire and Revenge: A Classical Hindi Kīcakavadha Performance at the Tomar Court of GwaliorHeidi Pauwels13. Blessed Beginnings: Invoking Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, and Rāma in Two Regional MahābhāratasSohini Sarah PillaiPart IV: Mahābhāratas of Modern South Asia14. How to Be Political without Being Polemical: The Debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the KṛṣṇacaritraAhona Panda15. The Epic and the Novel: Buddhadev Bose's Modern Reading of the MahābhārataSudipta Kaviraj16. Draupadī, Yājñasenī, Pāñcālī, Kṛṣṇ ā: Representations of an Epic Heroine in Three NovelsPamela Lothspeich17. From Excluded to Exceptional: Caste in Contemporary MahābhāratasSucheta Kanjilal18. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The Mahābhārata as Dystopian FuturePhilip LutgendorfBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

Nell Shapiro Hawley is Preceptor in Sanskrit at Harvard University. Sohini Sarah Pillai is a PhD candidate in South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Many Mahābhāratas is aimed at specialists in the epic, who will appreciate this volume's inclusion of new voices alongside established ones, its expansion of disciplinary perspectives, and the satisfying continuities that unite the essays, making the whole greater than the sum of its parts." — Reading Religion"Overall, the anthology is an excellent read. It thoroughly enriches and updates the field of Mahābhārata Studies. This is a groundbreaking volume assembling a range of eminent scholarship." — Religious Studies Review

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationForewordPaula Richman1. An Introduction to the Literature of the MahābhārataNell Shapiro Hawley and Sohini Sarah PillaiPart I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata2. Ā Garbhāt: Murderous Rage and Collective Punishment as Thematic Elements in Vyāsa's MahābhārataRobert Goldman3. The Invention of IrāvānDavid Gitomer4. Bodies That Don't Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of SulabhāSally J. Sutherland GoldmanPart II: Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in Poetry and Performance5. The Remembered Self: Arjuna as Bṛhannalā in the PañcarātraNell Shapiro Hawley6. The Lord of Glory and the Lord of Men: Power and Partiality in Māgha's ŚiśupālavadhaLawrence McCrea7. What Are the Goals of Life? The Vidūṣaka's Interpretation of the Puruṣārthas in Kulaśekhara's SubhadrādhanañjayaSudha Gopalakrishnan8. How Do We Remember Śakuntalā? The Mahābhārata and Kālidāsa's Drama on the Contemporary Indian StageAmanda CulpPart III: Regional and Vernacular Mahābhāratas from Premodern South Asia9. An Old Dharma in a New Age: Duryodhana and the Reframing of Epic Ethics in Ranna's SāhasabhīmavijayaTimothy Lorndale10. Three Poets, Two Languages, One Translation: The Evolution of the Telugu MahābhāratamuHarshita Mruthinti Kamath11. The Fate of Kīcaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha MahābhāratasEva De Clercq and Simon Winant12. The Power-Politics of Desire and Revenge: A Classical Hindi Kīcakavadha Performance at the Tomar Court of GwaliorHeidi Pauwels13. Blessed Beginnings: Invoking Viṣṇu, Kṛṣṇa, and Rāma in Two Regional MahābhāratasSohini Sarah PillaiPart IV: Mahābhāratas of Modern South Asia14. How to Be Political without Being Polemical: The Debate between Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Rabindranath Tagore over the KṛṣṇacaritraAhona Panda15. The Epic and the Novel: Buddhadev Bose's Modern Reading of the MahābhārataSudipta Kaviraj16. Draupadī, Yājñasenī, Pāñcālī, Kṛṣṇ ā: Representations of an Epic Heroine in Three NovelsPamela Lothspeich17. From Excluded to Exceptional: Caste in Contemporary MahābhāratasSucheta Kanjilal18. A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: The Mahābhārata as Dystopian FuturePhilip LutgendorfBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex