The Mahåbhårata and the Yugas: India’s Great Epic Poem and the Hindu System of World Ages By Luis González-Reimann Peter Lang, New York 2002 Asian Thought and Culture Sandra A.Wawrytko, general editor.: Journal of Vaishnava Studies

Abstract

The Mahåbhårata and the Yugas is a well-researched, thick description of the inclusion of the yuga system (the notion of repeating rounds in cyclical time) in the epic narrative. González-Reimann offers solid arguments that this major (if not the major) narrative trope in the Epic, including the idea of “yugånta,” the ending of an age (and the situating of the Epic’s action at the end of an age), were not part of the core epic narrative, but were later additions.