Mahabharata Book Eight (Volume 2)

In India's great epic Mahabhrata, the eighth book, Karna,; recounts the events that occurred during the mighty hero Karnas two days as general of the Kurava army. This second volume resumes on the war's seventeenth and penultimate day. This will be a momentous day for the Bhrata clans and especially for a number of their most distinguished heroes, with some of the epics most telegraphed events reaching their climax. Not only will the epic's most anticipated duel between its greatest champions rjuna and Karna be played out to its cruel and tragic end, but one of the more gruesome episodes in the epic will also take place with Duhshsana meeting the fate that has long awaited him since his brazen mistreatment of Drupadi in the assembly hall. Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http://www.claysanskritlibrary.org