If you want to read this translation, to my knowledge, it is available through 2 sources: as a free public domain book available through Amazon Kindle and through www.sacred-texts.com. The book is titled “The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa”. There are 4 volumes, totaling 18 books across the 4 volumes.
If you ever get to read the book, please read the preface on book 1 by the author — I liked his explanation of the job of a translator. Please note that he calls himself a “translator” not an “author” - that should easily prove the intentions and the authentic attempt to translate the original.
For those who may not have an opportunity to read it — here is what he says:
“The object of a translator should ever be to hold the mirror up to his author. That being so, his chief duty is to represent so far as practicable the manner in which his author's ideas have been expressed, retaining if possible at the sacrifice of idiom and taste all the peculiarities of his author's imagery and of language as well. In regard to translations from the Sanskrit, nothing is easier than to dish up Hindu ideas, so as to make them agreeable to English taste. But the endeavor of the present translator has been to give in the following pages as literal a rendering as possible of the great work of Vyasa”.
This site has not been created to argue whether The Mahabharata is true or fiction, right or wrong. My own interpretation will come much later, once I have a grasp of this great epic. As I read through and find interesting happenings, stories and terms that I was not aware of, I thought of sharing those with everyone — hence the idea for a site was born. And here we are. Please feel free to browse through, read and don't forget to leave your comments and suggestions. While it is very tempting to read other sources from the internet and get influenced by it, I have used the internet only for research purposes. In order to maintain the sanctity of the contents here, I have doubly made sure the content comes completely from the book that I am reading. However, where applicable, I have used references from another book called the "Puranic Encyclopedia", written by Vettam Mani and published by Motilal Banarsidass. I have tried my best to indicate all external references appropriately.
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Happy reading..!!
