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008 100308r20102009nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780199754410 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBL1138.27$b.D37 2010
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100 1 $aDas, Gurcharan.
245 14 $aThe difficulty of being good :$bon the subtle art of dharma /$cGurcharan Das.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2010.
300 $alii, 434 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aOriginally published: New Delhi : Allen Lane ; New York : Penguin Group (USA), 2009.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 312-328) and index.
505 0 $aPrelude: I take an academic holiday -- Duryodhana's envy: "what man of mettle will stand to see his rivals prosper and himself decline" -- Draupadi's courage: "who did you lose first, yourself or me?" -- Yudhisthira's duty: "I act because I must" -- Arjuna's despair: "there are no victors in war" -- Bhishma's selflessness: "be intent on the act, not its fruits" -- Karna's status anxiety: "how could a doe give birth to this tiger?" -- Krishna's guile: "that is the way it is!" -- Aswatthama's revenge: "now I feel the whirligig of time" -- Yudhisthira's remorse: "this victory looks more like defeat to me" -- Mahabharata's dharma: "great king, you weep with all creatures" -- Conclusion: the difficulty of being good -- Appendix: dharma, the story of a word -- A short bibliographic essay.
630 00 $aMahābhārata$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
630 00 $aMahābhārata$xCharacters.
650 0 $aDharma.