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Doniger's rendering is smooth, readable, and appealing without artificial or anachronizing reduction in the formal tone of the text. Many times when reading I encountered phrasing that struck me as almost too natural or amenable to my 21st century eyes. * Christopher R. Austin, AAR-Reading Religion *

An independently printed and affordable translation that gathers the concluding parvans, or books of the epic, for a general readership...Doniger's rendering is smooth, readable, and appealing without artificial or anachronizing reduction in the formal tone of the text. * Christopher R. Austin, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Dalhousie University , Reading Religion *

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Wendy Doniger has taught at Harvard, Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and the University of California at Berkeley, and, from 1978, at the University of Chicago, where she was the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, in the Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought, now Emerita. She is the author of over forty books, including translations of Sanskrit texts as well as books about Hindu mythology and cross-cultural mythology, particularly about illusion, animals, gender, and sex. In 1984 she was elected President of the American Academy of Religion, in 1989 a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, in 1996 a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and in 1997 President of the Association for Asian Studies.

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