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Mahabharata | Bibliography and Further Reading

Sources for Further Study
Buck, Philo M. "Kama, Karma, and Nirvana," in The Golden Thread, The Macmillan Company, 1931, pp. 186-211. Investigates the cultural and religious backgrounds of the Mahabharata.

Buck, William, reteller. Mahabharata, University of California Press, 1973, 417 p. A highly readable prose adaptation and abridgment of the epic poem. Although Buck makes some minor adjustments and interpolations in the story, his translation is vivid and compelling.

Campbell, Joseph. "The Indian Golden Age," in The Masks of God:...


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