TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tomassetti, Giampaolo 
AU  - Dharma, Krishna 
TI  - Mahabharata 
SN  - 9789385285141
U1  - ARTS 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Niyogi Books
KW  - Ancient epic
KW  - Art
KW  - Drawing
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Mahabharat
KW  - Painting
KW  - Religion
N1  - The epic Mahabharata, eulogized and worshiped by devotees worldwide, takes center stage in the artist's current creative repertoire. Tomassetti’s paintings, mostly in large size and bold colors, engage with the phenomenal Sanskrit epic of ancient India. As the title suggests it is a mahan (great) narration about bharatbaraga (descendants of Bharat/India), inscribed millennia ago by rishi Vyasadeva, around 400 BCE. Revered as a significant civilizational marker, the Mahabharata is the longest epic poem ever written. In its original, full form, it contains about 1.8 million words in over 100,000 shlokas (couplets) or 200,000 plus individual verse lines and long prose passages. Over the centuries, it has been revised and interpolated in attempts to unravel its historical or compositional layers and continues to be engagingly mysterious
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