Sarala Mahabharat

Here I will post some short pieces on Sarala Mahabharata. Sarala Das is known as the "aadikavi" (the first poet) of Oriya Literature. He lived and wrote in the 15th Century. Mahabharat is his magnum opus. The episodes in Sarala's Mahabharat are significantly different from those in Vyasa's (Sanskrit) Mahabharat. Some of these posts have been translated into French, German and Hindi.

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

LAZY NOTES (IN LOCKDOWN)

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I YUDHISTHIRA'S HALF-TRUTH Yudhisthira was persuaded to tell Drona “The man or the elephant Aswasthama was dead’ but utter “...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

A LIST OF ARTICLES ON SARALA MAHABHARATA

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These articles deal with the creativity of Sarala as the re-teller of the canonical text and the richness and the depth of his poetic vis...
Saturday, April 18, 2020

FAKE PEOPLE (IN THE WORLD OF SARALA MAHABHARATA)

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Made of the three gunas , namely, satwa , raja and tama , and destined to live enveloped in maya , humans lack the necessary clarity of v...
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FAKE VIEWS

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“Fake views” are views one advocates but does not really subscribe to them. The expression is used in this broad sense here. One could ex...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

NARAYANA AND HIS GRACE

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Deeply offended by Krishna’s plain speaking, Duryodhana lost his temper and started abusing him. To be fair, his feeling humiliated and e...
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

SARALA'S SAHADEVA AND HIS BOON!

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As god Ashwini Kumara shared his life with the dead child, life returned to him. He was born and had died as Pandu’s (and Madri’s) son bu...
Thursday, February 6, 2020

WHEREFORE "THE MANGO OF TRUTH"?

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I am rephrasing a question a young researcher-participant at a Sarala Mahabharata conference asked me the other day: what purpose – narr...
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