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The Queens Of Hastinapur
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Author : Sharath Komarraju
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2017-10-10
The Queens Of Hastinapur written by Sharath Komarraju and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-10 with Fiction categories.
'They can claim to know her because she is unknowable. They see her form because she is formless. They speak her words because she never utters a word.'This is the story of Ganga, Madri, Pritha and Gandhari: powerful women who, driven by their fears and ambitions, trigger events that lead to an epic war, propelling kings, princes and warriors towards glory and bloodshed, sin and redemption. Here is a retelling of the Mahabharata through the eyes of its female characters, for what came to an end at Kurukshetra took root in throne rooms and bed chambers; hermitages and sacred lakes; prisons and shrines; on horseback and under the stars.
The Rise Of Hastinapur
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Author : Sharath Komarraju
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2015-11-15
The Rise Of Hastinapur written by Sharath Komarraju and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-15 with Fiction categories.
'Fans of The Winds of Hastinapur, who should be legion, will delight in reconnecting with Sharath Komarraju's alternative-Mahabharata universe, where divinities and royals are both complex, capricious beings - with the former distinguished only by slightly enhanced powers, and the latter by more immediate desires and ambition. Komarraju has set himself greater challenges in this sophomore outing of his series: the plot thickens, the players multiply and the geopolitical chessboard on which this epic game unfolds is a thing of beautiful intricacy.' - Karthika Nair, author of Until the Lions For the story of the Great War is also the story of the women . . .Amba lives for revenge, but circumstances and men conspire against her. Will her daughter bring her the only salvation she seeks? Kunti stakes all to free her brother Vasudev and his wife Devaki. Yet it is the groom-choosing ceremony that will define her life. Gandhari too has come of age, and is faced with a difficult choice: she must marry the blind prince of Hastinapur if she is to save her kingdom from the certain ruin it faces due to Hastinapur's deceit.In the background, Bhishma pulls the strings, making alliances and marriages, devising new strategies, ever increasing the might of Hastinapur.
Winds Of Hastinapur
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Author : Sharath Komarraju
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Winds Of Hastinapur written by Sharath Komarraju and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Fiction categories.
'In a few moons the Goddess will claim me, and I do not have a fresh young virgin by my side to absorb my knowledge and take my place once I am gone. The Mysteries of Ganga and her Sight will vanish with me.' 'My hair is white and thin, now. In a few moons, the Goddess will claim me, and I do not have a fresh young virgin by my side to absorb my knowledge and take my place once I am gone. The Mysteries of Ganga and her Sight will vanish with me, and the Great River will become nothing more than a body of lifeless water ... It is my intention, therefore, to tell you the story as it happened, as I saw it happen.' The Mahabharata is the story of women, even though men have focused far too much on the Great Battle. It is women who have set events in motion, guided the action and measured the men. The Winds of Hastinapur begins at the point that Ganga was cursed and sent to Earth. She lives among the mortals and bears Shantanu, the King of Hastinapur, seven children, all of whom she kills. With the eighth, she leaves. That boy, who returns to Earth, will prove to be the key to the future of Hastinapur.The story, as told through the lives of his mother Ganga and stepmother Satyavati, is violent, fraught with conflict and touched with magic. A lady of the river who has no virgin daughter to carry on her legacy, Celestials who partake of a mysterious lake they guard with their very lives, sages overcome by lust, a randy fisher-princess - these and other characters lend a startling new dimension to a familiar tale. SharathKomarraju does not so much retell the epic as rewrite it
The Fisher Queen S Dynasty
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Author : Kavita Kané
language : en
Publisher: Rupa Publ iCat Ions India
Release Date : 2022-10-05
The Fisher Queen S Dynasty written by Kavita Kané and has been published by Rupa Publ iCat Ions India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10-05 with Fiction categories.
Matsyagandha, Daseyi, Yojanagandha-the queen of Hastinapur, Satyavati. Abandoned as a baby, preyed on by a rishi, she hardens herself, determined that the next time she is with a man, she will be the one to win. And win she does: the throne of Hastinapur for herself, and the promise that her sons will be heirs to the kingdom. But at what cost? In a palace where she is disdained and scorned, Satyavati must set aside her own loss and pain if she is to play the game of politics. She learns to be ruthless, unscrupulous-traits that estrange her from everyone around. Everyone, except the man she cheated of his birthright.
Krishna And Jara
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Author : SA Krishnan
language : en
Publisher: SA Krishnan
Release Date : 2016-10-01
Krishna And Jara written by SA Krishnan and has been published by SA Krishnan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Stories from the Mahabharatha
The Fisher Queen S Dynasty
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Author : Kavita Kané
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Fisher Queen S Dynasty written by Kavita Kané and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Hindu mythology categories.
The Rise Of Hastinapur
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Author : Sharath Komarraju
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Release Date : 2015-11-18
The Rise Of Hastinapur written by Sharath Komarraju and has been published by HarperCollins India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-18 with Fiction categories.
For the story of the Great War is also the story of the women . . . Amba lives for revenge, but circumstances and men conspire against her. Will her daughter bring her the only salvation she seeks? Kunti stakes all to free her brother Vasudev and his wife Devaki. Yet it is the groom-choosing ceremony that will define her life. Gandhari too has come of age, and is faced with a difficult choice: she must marry the blind prince of Hastinapur if she is to save her kingdom from the certain ruin it faces due to Hastinapur's deceit. In the background, Bhishma pulls the strings, making alliances and marriages, devising new strategies, ever increasing the might of Hastinapur.
The Pregnant King
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Author : Devdutt Pattanaik
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-07-11
The Pregnant King written by Devdutt Pattanaik and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Religion categories.
‘I am not sure that I am a man,’ said Yuvanashva. ‘I have created life outside me as men do. But I have also created life inside me, as women do. What does that make me? Will a body such as mine fetter or free me?’ Among the many hundreds of characters who inhabit the Mahabharata, perhaps the world’s greatest epic and certainly one of the oldest, is Yuvanashva, a childless king, who accidentally drinks a magic potion meant to make his queens pregnant and gives birth to a son. This extraordinary novel is his story. It is also the story of his mother Shilavati, who cannot be king because she is a woman; of young Somvat, who surrenders his genitals to become a wife; of Shikhandi, a daughter brought up as a son, who fathers a child with a borrowed penis; of Arjuna, the great warrior with many wives, who is forced to masquerade as a woman after being castrated by a nymph; of Ileshwara, a god on full-moon days and a goddess on new-moon nights; and of Adi-natha, the teacher of teachers, worshipped as a hermit by some and as an enchantress by others. Building on Hinduism’s rich and complex mythology—but driven by a very contemporary sensibility—Devdutt Pattanaik creates a lush and fecund work of fiction in which the lines are continually blurred between men and women, sons and daughters, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers. Confronted with such fluidity the reader is drawn into Yuvanashva’s struggle to be fair to all—those here, those there and all those in between.
The Mauryan
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Author : Komal Bhanver
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2017-05-15
The Mauryan written by Komal Bhanver and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with Fiction categories.
Can Ashoka conquer his enemies, or will his own demons get the better of him? Known in far reaches of the world as a great conqueror, emperor Bindusara rules over much of India with an iron fist. When a Brahmin prophesies that his wife, the beautiful Subhadrangi, will birth a legendary ruler, Bindusara is ecstatic. But when the child is born a frail, ordinary-looking boy, the emperor, filled with disappointment and disgust, leaves him to his mother and turns all attention to grooming Susima, his eldest son, as heir to the Mauryan throne. Shunned by his father, and bullied and humiliated by Susima, Ashoka learns from a very early age to be the master of his own fate. Under the determined tutelage of his mother and the company of a few loyal companions, he begins to challenge Susima at every step. When he meets a beautiful and spirited young woman who teaches him the true meaning of courage and changes him forever, he begins to dream of ruling the vast empire. But kaal has other plans for him, for his ambition and steady rise are being noted by those who want to end the threat to Susima’s succession once and for all. Will Ashoka allow the obstacles along the path of his destiny to overwhelm him, or can he rise above them to become the greatest emperor who ever lived?
Banquet On The Dead
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Author : Sharath Komarraju
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Banquet On The Dead written by Sharath Komarraju and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Indic fiction (English) categories.