the Mahabharata as a spiritual scripture

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Is there any tradition of understanding the Mahabharata as a spiritual scripture

rather than as an epic?

Is there some tradition of theological interpretation of the Mahabharata from

the Shaiva/Shakta view?

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vediculture, "Alexandra Kafka"

<alexandra.kafka@a...> wrote:

> Is there any tradition of understanding the Mahabharata as a

spiritual scripture rather than as an epic? Is there some tradition

of theological interpretation of the Mahabharata from the

Shaiva/Shakta view?

 

I have used the following book which is quite informative and

imaginative: Mahabharata, a spiritual interpretation by Sri Nava

Kumar, Publisher Jamshedpur : Sura Sadan Pub., 1979, 168pp.

 

Ruth Katz, "The Sauptika Episode in the Structure of the

Mahabharata," pp 130-149, In "Essays on the Mahabharata" edited by

Arvind Sharma, E.J. Brill, Leiden, 1991, gives a Saiva interprtation

to the post-war events.

 

S.Tilak