the Mahabharata as a spiritual scripture

06-08-2003, 11:50 AM

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?

06-09-2003, 03:03 AM

--- In vediculture (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, "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