War looms even as Krishna works to stop it, and when at last that battle arrives the great warrior Arjuna throws down his weapons and refuses to fight. In this way the Mahabharata explores the question of right action in the world, throwing flowers into the fire of our questions until even the gods begin to dance. And if their dance means the end of the world, what then?
Image: detail from a page of the Razmnama, a Persian translation of the Mahabharata. |
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