ePub Kammu Songs: The Songs of Kam Raw (Kammu Worlds) by Håkan Lundström in History

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The Mahāhabhārata; a vital Indic epic and a flourishing influence on Indian culture past and present; has surprisingly enough hardly got much attention from scholars in the West. This latest volume in Brill's Indological Library convincingly fills this hiatus. At that; at the hand of the hero Karna; Kevin McGrath develops a view on the nature and function of the hero in epic Indic poetry. Making use of models taken from Indo-European and preliterate studies; a model emerges for 'heroic religion'; having to a large extent shaped not only the Indic epics; but also cognate Indo-European epics; such as Homer's Iliad. As a result this work goes beyond Indology; but is of importance to classicists and comparative religionists as well.