MAHABHARATA Book 11: Stri Parva-Descriptions

[Anne Terri]

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The Mahabharata
of
Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
BOOK 11
STRI PARVA
Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text
by
Kisari Mohan Ganguli
[1883-1896]

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THE MAHABHARATA
BOOK 11: Stri Parva

SECTIONS 1-27

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“God / Brahman Speaking To Anne Terri Through The Holy Spirit: Various versions exist of The Mahabrarata, and for the purpose of Our Study Area, The Stri Parva is broken down into two sections. Wikipedia shows two further sub-parvas than in Kisari Mohan Ganguli's Translation.

Chapters 1-15    Jalapradanika-parva
Chapters 16-27  Stri-vilapa-parva

AMEN”

The Stri Parva (Sanskrit: स्त्री पर्व), or the "Book of the Women," is the eleventh of eighteen books of the Indian Epic Mahabharata. It has 4 sub-books and 27 chapters.

Sometimes spelled Stree Parva, it describes the grief of women because of the war. The parva recites the grief of men too, such as of Dhritrashtra and the Pandava brothers. The chapters include a treatise by Vidura and Vyasa on passage rites with words of comfort for those who have lost loved ones, as well as the saṃsāra fable of the man and a well.

The men and women performing last rites in memory for those who died during the war.
This Parva (book) has 4 sub-parvas (sub-books or little books) and 27 adhyayas (sections, chapters). The 4 sub-books are:

1. Vishoka parva
2. Stri parva
3. Shraddha parva
4. Jalapradanika parva

wikipedia

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“God / Brahman Speaking To Anne Terri Through The Holy Spirit: This will be an ongoing endeavor, which will take many hours to build. I Begin this new section within The Third Testament - Research Library, to Bring forward one of the most important ancient texts of Hinduism, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa as translated into English from Sanskrit. by Kisari Mohan Ganguli [1883-1896] In doing so, I have Asked of Anne to begin advanced studies on this, for the purposes of future links with other Hindu Study Guides currently in process. It is important to note that
The Mahabharata was written between 540 and 300 B.C. Most credit has been given to Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita appears in Book 6. .... Juliet Sutherland, Project Manager. at sacred-texts.com, 2003, has asked that the Attribution appear with this public domain work as it is written below. AMEN”

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