Volume : VI, Issue : IV, April - 2017

The Portrayal of Women in Mahabharata

Dr. S. Rajeswari

Abstract :

 The root cause for the origin of Mahabharata is the conflict between ancient and modern dharmas. The source text of Mahabharata of vyasa depicted deeply the socio–economic,political, religious and economic conditions in the last  phase of Vedic culture. There after all the Mahabharatas which came outembedded in them the conditions of the places and times of their emergence and they stood as a part of great inheritance of India Mahabharata stands as a challenge for those who study the Indian culture . As Eliot remarked ‘The presentness of the past and pastness of the present’ also embedded in it the cultural changes which apply to every developing era..

    `Parva’which reconstructed the society of Mahabharata separating the myth   and reality and searched the answers for innumerable problems in Mahaabharata is the basis for this paper.Parva is the  modern novel form of Mahabharata. Prof. Gangisetty Lakshminarayana, former vice chancellor of Dravidian university translated Parva’ into Telugu which was written by the famous kannada writer and philosopher Prof.S.L Bhairappa. Parva presents the ancient society in its exact form before our eyes ‘.Parva focused on the concept of chaste city and its consolidation and complexity in concrete terms. This ideological conflict is the basis for my paper.Chasticity, virginity and their role in the life of women have been analysed  in my paper .

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Dr. S. Rajeswari, The Portrayal of Women in Mahabharata, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-4 | APRIL‾2017

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