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Indian Myth & Legend
When the Scottish journalist and lecturer Donald A. Mackenzie published Indian Myth and Legend, he brought to his subject a sensibility of the power of folklore and myth to tap into a deep well of shared human experience. Well-versed in the folk literature of many peoples, in this volume he gave his readers an introduction to India's complex and richly coloured mythology as found in the country's various sacred works, including the ancient invocatory hymns of the four Vedas, the later speculative and expository Aranyakas (`the Forest Books') and the great epic poems of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
The tales from India retold in Indian Myth and Legend have qualities that have universal appeal and are among the most beautiful which survive from the civilizations of the ancient
world. In no other country have the national poets given fuller and finer expression to the beliefs and ideals and traditions of a people or achieved as a result a wider and more enduring fame.
world. In no other country have the national poets given fuller and finer expression to the beliefs and ideals and traditions of a people or achieved as a result a wider and more enduring fame.
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