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vishalsagarwal • October 31, 2002 


The following book has just come out:

Luis Gonzalez-Reimann. 2002. The Mahabharata and the Yugas: India's 
Great
Epic 
Poem and the Hindu System of World Ages. New York: Peter Lang.

It is available from amazon.com (USA), or directly from the publisher:

http://www.peterlang.net/all/index.cfm?textfield=gonzalez-
reimann&vResult=tr
ue&vDom=3&vRub=1060

DETAILED TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Mahabharata and the Yugas

Introduction            
        Cyclical Time in Hinduism
        The Yugas               
        The Mahabharata
                Outline of the Story

1  Time and Destiny in the Mahabharata
        The Power of Time and Fate
        Krsna, Fate and Free Will       
        Two Kinds of Time
        The Rope of Time

2  Yuganta: The End of the Yuga
        The Mahabharata and the Yuga Theory
        The Term kali and the Dice Throws
        Kali in Early Buddhist Literature: The Pali Canon
        The Term Yuganta

3       The Dvapara-Kali Transition: Placing the Action in the Yuga 
Scheme
        The Textual Evidence
                Book One: The Summary   
                Book Twelve: The Supreme Narayana 
                Books Six and Thirteen: Narayana/Krsna and the 
Section on Cosmology 
                Book Three: Kali or Krta?
                Book Nine: The Death of Duryodhana
        Weighing the Evidence
        Kali as Pusya

4  The King and the Yugas
        The Duties of the King
        To Act or not to Act
        From Dice Throws to Yugas
        The Importance of Punishment
        Creating a New ‘Krta Yuga’

5  The Yuga System becomes Part of the Mahabharata      
        A ‘kali’ Epic Poem
        The Narrative, and the Epic’s Response to Social Change
        Codifying Time
        Time as a Cyclical Process
        The Transition from Vedism to Hinduism and the Growth of the 
Epic
        Vaisnavism and the Epics

6  The Yugas in the Puranas and the Dharma Sastras
        Which Dharma?
        ‘This’ Kali Yuga
        Yuga Dharma
        The Modern Importance of the Yugas

Conclusions
        The Usage of Key Terms
        The Historical Context
        After the Mahabharata

Appendix A. Description of the Yugas in the Section on Cosmology
        Mahabharata 6.11.114
                Sanskrit Text

Appendix B. Conversation between Bhima and Hanuman Concerning the 
Yugas
        Mahabharata 3.148.537
                Sanskrit Text

Appendix C. The Terms Pusya, Dvapara, Kharva and Krta in the Sadvimsa 
Brahmana

Appendix D. The King and Punitive Justice
        Mahabharata 12.70
                Sanskrit Text

Appendix E. Bhisma’s Krta-like Regency
        Mahabharata 1.102.114
                Sanskrit Text

Appendix F. Bhaktivedanta Swami and the ‘Golden Age’ within the Kali 
Yuga
        
Bibliography
        Primary Sources 
                Sanskrit Texts
                Pali and Gandhari Texts
                Texts with Translation
                Translations
        Secondary Sources and Reference Works

Index of Passages

General Index and Glossary


Sincerely,

Vishal Agarwal




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