How Long to Read The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata

How Long Does it Take to Read The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 33 minutes to read The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata by Nikhil Govind

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The Mahabharata, one of the most popular epics, has had a remarkable impact on literary and cultural thought in India through the centuries. It is also of immense religious and philosophical importance and is considered itihasa, literally 'that which happened', or sacred history. Though the setting of the Mahabharata is distant in time, something of its indefatigable, insistent formulation of the pivotal dilemmas of our shared human moral imagination remains insistent and inextinguishable even today. The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata closely reads the conceptual and narrative intricacies of the epic through the four foundational terms of dharma (law), artha (worldliness), kama (desire) and moksha (freedom), offering riveting insights on the moral psychology of Indic civilization. Drawing from scholarly forays in philology, history, religious studies and pre-modern Asian traditions, this critical attention by a literary scholar to the Mahabharata's narrative impulses and the internal vigour of select episodes brings to fore the gripping dilemmas that animate the epic. The book travels through an atmospheric and exuberant pre-modern milieu to provoke prescient metaphysical and ethical questions that are only accumulating in relevance in the contemporary world.

How long is The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata?

The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata by Nikhil Govind is 152 pages long, and a total of 38,304 words.

This makes it 51% the length of the average book. It also has 47% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 29 minutes to read The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata aloud.

What Reading Level is The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata?

The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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