Exploration of the Portrayal of Yudhishthir in Select Revisionist Texts

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Published: Feb 28, 2018
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Revisionist, Dharmaraj, Righteous, Epic, Peace, War, Mahabharata

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Noopur Srivastava
Research Scholar, (Ph. D.) School of Arts & Humanities REVA University, Bengaluru, KN
Dr. Payel Dutta Chowdhury
Professor & Director, School of Arts & Humanities REVA University, Bengaluru, KN

Abstract

Several revisionist writers in today’s time are projecting characters from our great epics, The Ramayana and The Mahabharatato bring out the various nuances in their personalities from a contemporary context. Yudhishthir is one of the most eminent and righteous characters in the Mahabharata. His representation is quite different from the ordinary kshatriya man. Popular for his righteous nature, he is the only one who reaches heaven with his body as only souls are permitted to enter in the heaven. Yudhishthir was the combination of the qualities of God and human. This paper looks into the complex strains in his character as portrayed in some of the select texts by revisionist writers like Pratibha Ray in Yajnaseni, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni in The Palace of Illusions, M. Veerappa Moily in The Flaming Tresses of Draupadi, Kavita Kane in Karna’s Wife, Devdutt Pattanaik in Jaya and Thakur K.B.P. Sinha in Draupadi: The Abandoned Queen.

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Noopur Srivastava, and Dr. Payel Dutta Chowdhury. “Exploration of the Portrayal of Yudhishthir in Select Revisionist Texts”. The Creative Launcher, vol. 2, no. 6, Feb. 2018, pp. 1-9, https://www.thecreativelauncher.com/index.php/tcl/article/view/766.
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Vol. 2 No. 6 (2018): February, 2018
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