From the Bhakti List Archives
Vidyasankar Sundaresan
• Tue Jun 24 1997 - 02:02:44 PDT
In connection with Bhishma, I just remembered something that I thought I
should share with members on this list.
Lakshmana Suri, a great Sanskrit scholar, and father of Justice T. L.
Venkatarama Iyer, wrote a prose work called Bhishma Vijayam in Sanskrit.
Ten years ago, I had the privilege of working on the proof-reading the
printer's drafts, along with my Sanskrit guru, Pandit P. K. Nagaratna
Sarma of Bombay. This work is novel in that it is a rendering of the
entire Mahabharata from the perspective of Pitamaha Bhishma, and
highlights his central role in the epic. This is one of the few works of
quality Sanskrit literature to be composed in this century.
Vidyasankar
