Studies in the Epics and Puranas c12.3

c12.3

A detailed and comprehensive treatment of the whole problem will require a full-fledged monograph. Though there are innumerable books,—both old and new, in Sanskrit, in medieval and modern Indian languages as also in English and continental languages—and articles, there is not a single book dealing exhaustively with all aspects and connotations of the problem.¹ This chapter aims at the study of the important aspects of the problem in brief in the light of the available material.