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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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9780199754410 |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
294.5923047 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Das, Gurcharan |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The difficulty of being good: |
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on the subtle art of dharma / |
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Gurcharan Das |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2010. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
lii, 488p. |
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24 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Originally published: New Delhi : Allen Lane ; New York : Penguin Group (USA), 2009. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-328) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Prelude: I take an academic holiday -- Duryodhana's envy: "what man of mettle will stand to see his rivals prosper and himself decline" -- Draupadi's courage: "who did you lose first, yourself or me?" -- Yudhisthira's duty: "I act because I must" -- Arjuna's despair: "there are no victors in war" -- Bhishma's selflessness: "be intent on the act, not its fruits" -- Karna's status anxiety: "how could a doe give birth to this tiger?" -- Krishna's guile: "that is the way it is!" -- Aswatthama's revenge: "now I feel the whirligig of time" -- Yudhisthira's remorse: "this victory looks more like defeat to me" -- Mahabharata's dharma: "great king, you weep with all creatures" -- Conclusion: the difficulty of being good -- Appendix: dharma, the story of a word -- A short bibliographic essay. |
| 630 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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Mahābhārata |
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
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| Uniform title |
Mahābhārata |
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Characters. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Dharma. |
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Mahabharata - commentary |
