Bibliography on Teaching the Mahabharata
Complied by Tracy Coleman from RISA-L discussions
1) John Brockington's, The Sanskrit Epics. Leiden: Brill, 1998. Very useful
text and bibliography.
2) Jim Fitzgerald's web pages on The
Mahabharata.
3) Forthcoming article by Jim Fitzgerald, written for The Hindu World, edited
by G, Thursby and S. Mittal (Routledge).
4) Sullivan, Bruce, "Temple Rites and Temple Servants: The Role of Religion in the
Survival of Kerala's Kutiyattam Drama Tradition," International Journal of Hindu
Studies 1 (1997): 97-115.
________. "The Unworshipped Avatar: Vyasa's Relationships with Visnu and
Brahma," Journal of Vaisnava Studies 4, no.3 (Summer, 1996): 57-64.
________. "Tapati-Samvaranam, a Kutiyattam Drama by Kulasekhara Varman."
Introduced by Bruce M. Sullivan. Translated, with notes, by Bruce M. Sullivan and N. P.
Unni. Asian Theatre Journal 13, no. 1 (Spring, 1996): 26-53.
________. "The Religious Authority of the Mahabharata: Vyasa and Brahma in the
Hindu Scriptural Tradition," Journal of the American Academy of Religion 62,
2 (Summer, 1994): 377-401.
5) Sally Sutherland, "Sita and Drauapadi: Aggressive Behavior and Female
Role-Models in the Sanskrit Epics," JAOS,109 #1 (1989): 63-79.
6) On Peter Brook's film "Mahabharata"
Bessinger, M., and J. Tylus, eds. Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1999.
Bharucha, Rustom. "A View From India (Peter Brook's Mahabharata)." In Peter
Brook and The Mahabharata, edited by David Williams, 228-52. London: Routledge, 1991.
Dasgupta, Gautam. "Peter Brook's "Orientalism"." In Peter Brook and
The Mahabharata, edited by David Williams, 262-67. London: Routledge, 1991.
O'Connor, Garry. The Mahabharata: Peter Brook's Epic in the Making. San Francisco:
Mercury House, Inc., 1990.
7) J.A.B. van Buitenen's Introduction to his 'bi-lingual' translation of the Bhagavad-gita.
8) Journal of Vaisnava Studies 4, no.3 (Summer, 1996): Mahabharata Issue
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