Mahabharata and Ramayana

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MAHABHARATA AND RAMAYANA

 

By Krishna Dharma

 

Available from all good bookshops and usual devotee outlets (including

myself in the UK - wholesale prices on application)

 

MAHABHARATA

 

A 950 page novelisation with sixteen colour plates and twenty line drawings

by Ananta Shakti prabhu, also a genealogical table, glossary and

comprehensive list of character biographies.

 

Many reviews can be seen on the Amazon.com site.

 

> Whenever I have had any spare time I spend it reading the Mahabharata . It

> has been the best gift I have ever got . It is certainly the best book I

> have ever read . I can't put it down .

> I find myself reading it late at night when I should be asleep . Someone

> reads to me as I take lunch and if I could read it in the shower or on the

> toilet I would . I am almost finished and it has been the fastest 1000

> page book I have ever read . I am almost pained anticipating finishing

> this Mahabharata . Only one solution . I will read it again ( and again

> and again).

> Of course the subject matter is sublime but the way Krishna Dharma has

> crafted the entire book together it reads so fluidly you feel like on a

> water slide . Formerly any edition of Mahabharata I read was exciting but

> clunky . This edition excels in everyway and especially it is such a joy

> to read the words overcoated with bhakti . I have never found this

> enlightened devotional thread so nicely woven through the whole epic as

> in Krishna Dharma's book . In fact nothing comes close .

>

> H.H.Sridhar Swami, ISKCON GBC

 

 

RAMAYANA:

 

A 460 page novelisation of Valmiki's work, with eight full colour BBT art

plates and ten line drawings by Bhaktisiddhanta prabhu.

 

The book has received many nice reviews, some of which you can see on the

Amazon website. H.H.Sivarama Swami described it as 'gripping' and said that

he spent the entire day on Ramanavami reading the book.

 

> Krishna Dharma has provided a good read... I have read this book during

> train journeys and can say that the hour long trips from Chichester to

> London have passed almsot unnoticed. This is a well written work that

> captures very successfully the Ramayana's epic quality.

> I have studied the religion, taught it, and written about it for some

> years, and by reading this version of the epic the nuances of Ramayana

> kept rising to the surface like bubbles in a boiling saucepan.

> This book deserves to be popular and widely read. I am thankful for a good

> and thought-provoking read.

>

> Owen Cole PhD, Author and Professor of Religion