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Black and white photographic plates and line illustrations, xii + 205pp, glossary, appendix, hardback, minor wear to price-clipped and chipped dustjacket, small bookseller's label front pastedown, slight soiling edges, a good copy otherwise. "This volume contains a selection from the first and second parvas of the Mahabharata--the Adi Parva and the Sambha Parva, there being eighteen parvas, or books, in all. The passages are transcribed and edited from Protap Chandra Roy's edition of 1883, the first of the two complete editions of the poem translated into English prose from the Sanskrit. The present selections consist of legends, love stories, tales, folk-lore, discourses and so on; and through them, in sequential form, runs the story of the struggle between the Pandavas and the Kauravas." From the Publisher's description.…