Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, "Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mah?bh?rata Textual Criticism" (Anthem Press, 2018) - a podcast by Marshall Poe

The Hindu great epic, Mah?bh?rata, exists today in hundreds of variant manuscripts across India. These manuscripts were painstakingly examined, sorted and reconstituted into the official Critical Edition of the Mah?bh?rata. Is the Critical Edition a viable means of studying India's great epic?  While several scholars critique this undertaking project, the authors of Philology and Criticism: A Guide to Mah?bh?rata Textual Criticism (Anthem Press, 2018), Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee, present a rigorous defense of the Mah?bh?rata's Critical Edition. Listen in and hear how and why they've done so.
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