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Codice articolo L2-9798235971981
- Titolo
- Mahakatha
- Autore
- Darshan, Vb
- Editore
- VB DARSHAN
- Anno di pubblicazione
- 2026
- Condizione
- New
- Rilegatura
- PAP
- Lingua
- inglese
- ISBN 13
- 9798235971981
- Peso dell'articolo
- 546 grammi
MAHAKATHA: 101 Stories from the Puranas
A Journey Through the Sacred Narratives of Hindu Mythology
By VB Darshan
In the beginning, before the first temple was built and before the first prayer was spoken, there were stories.
The Puranas - the ancient sacred texts of the Hindu tradition - are the world's most vast and daring act of mythological imagination. They contain the account of how the universe was created, how it will end, and what it means to live inside it with wisdom and devotion. They contain the stories of gods who drink oceans and dance inside rings of cosmic fire, of sages who hold mountain ranges motionless by asking them to bow, of goddesses who rise from divine fire to do what no god could accomplish alone, of devotees so singular in their love that even death could not outargue them.
Mahakatha - which means The Great Story - gathers 101 of the most essential, most beautiful, and most enduring of these narratives into a single volume. Organized across eight parts and twenty-eight chapters, the book moves through the complete arc of the Puranic universe: from the cracking of the Cosmic Egg and the birth of Brahma in the Golden Womb, through the ten avatars of Vishnu and the great battles of the Goddess, through the celestial powers of sun and moon and the shadow planets that pull human lives toward what they have not yet resolved, through the long transformations of the sages and the dharmic struggles of the kings, all the way to the edge of the age that is ending and the white horse that waits at its boundary - Kalki, the avatar yet to come.
Along the way, the reader will meet:
A king who gave three worlds to a small brahmin carrying a reed umbrella and called it a privilege to be asked.
A sage who drank an entire ocean in his cupped palms to expose the demons hiding inside it.
The moon god, cursed for loving one wife too completely, whose grief became the cycle of lunar phases that has governed the calendar for three thousand years.
A five-year-old child who wanted his father's lap, was refused, and went to the forest to perform austerities so severe that the earth shook - and became the Polestar.
The woman who followed the god of death himself down the road to the underworld and argued him out of her husband's soul through three precisely constructed boons.
The god who was kicked in the chest by a sage trying to settle a theological debate - and responded by asking whether the sage's foot was hurt.
The elephant king who prayed from a crocodile's grip with no theology and no training, only the genuine cry of a being who had reached the end of what it could do for itself - and was answered immediately.
The Puranas are not history. They are not superstition. They are the memory of what is always true - and the stories gathered in this book have been told and retold across the subcontinent for more than two thousand years because generation after generation has found in them something that neither history nor science provides: the account of what kind of universe this is, what the divine looks like when it moves through the world, and what the human life is for.
Mahakatha is for anyone who has ever looked at the night sky and felt that the stars were saying something. It is for anyone who has stood at the bank of a river and understood that the water is more than water. It is for anyone who has ever wanted the great story of India told from the beginning - all of it, in one place, the way it was always meant to be heard.
The wheel is turning. The stories are waiting.
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