By Naama Shalom
This booklet demanding situations wide-spread assumptions in regards to the Mahābhārata: that its narrative is inherently incapable of accomplishing a end and that its finishing, the Svargārohaṇa parva, is an extraneous a part of the textual content. whereas the exegetic traditions have mostly tended to suppress, forget about, or forget the significance of this ultimate part, Shalom argues that the instant of the condemnation of dharma that happens within the Svargārohaṇa parva, expressed by way of the epic protagonist, Yudhiṣṭhira, opposed to his father, Dharma, is of an important value. It sheds mild at the incessant preoccupation and intrinsic dismay in the direction of the concept that of dharma (the cardinal subject matter round which the epic revolves) expressed by means of Mahābhārata narrators during the epic, and is therefore hugely major for figuring out the Mahābhārata narrative as a whole.
Naama Shalom is Assistant Professor within the Humanities division at Shalem university, Jerusalem.
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