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100	1		_aDas, Gurcharan.
245	1	4	_aThe difficulty of being good : _bon the subtle art of dharma / _cGurcharan Das.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2010.
300			_alii, 434 p. ; _c24 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
500			_aOriginally published: New Delhi : Allen Lane ; New York : Penguin Group (USA), 2009.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 312-328) and index.
505	0		_aPrelude: 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	0	0	_aMahābhārata _xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
630	0	0	_aMahābhārata _xCharacters.
650		0	_aDharma.
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