MARC details
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02143nam a22002537a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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JGU |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20220921155249.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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220921b |||||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780674545618 |
| Qualifying information |
pbk. |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Transcribing agency |
JGU |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
san |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Magha, |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1636356 |
| Relator term |
author |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The killing of Shishupala / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Magha ; edited and translated by Paul Dundas. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Harvard University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2017. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
<a href="Murty Classical Library of India.">Murty Classical Library of India.</a> |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"Magha’s The Killing of Shishupala is a celebrated seventh century. Sanskrit poem that tells the story of Shishupala’s refusal to honor the divine Krishna at the coronation of Yudhishthira. Through this translation, the first into English,readers gain access to a sophisticated work that has dazzled Indian audiences for a thousand years. Magha’s The Killing of Shishupala, written in the seventh century, is a celebrated example of the Sanskrit genre known as mahākāvya, or great poem. This adaptation from the epic Mahābhārata tells the story of Shishupala, who disrupts Yudhishthira’s coronation by refusing to honor Krishna, the king’s principal ally and a manifestation of divinity. When Shishupala challenges Krishna to combat, he is immediately beheaded. Magha, who was likely a court poet in western India, draws on the rich stylistic resources of Sanskrit poetry to imbue his work with unparalleled sophistication. He expands the narrative’s cosmic implications through elaborate depictions of the natural world and intense erotic sensuality, mixing myth and classical erudition with scenes of political debate and battlefield slaughter. Krishna is variously portrayed as refined prince, formidable warrior and incarnation of the god Vishnu protecting the world from demonic threat."-- |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Poetry |
| Form subdivision |
Death |
| Chronological subdivision |
early works to 1800. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1636867 |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Poetry |
| Form subdivision |
Krishna (Hindu deity) |
| Chronological subdivision |
early works to 1800. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1636868 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dundas, Paul, |
| Relator term |
editor |
| -- |
translator |
| 9 (RLIN) |
398467 |
| 830 ## - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Murty Classical Library of India. |
