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Synopsis A feast of paintings provided by painters of the Bengal Renaissance and after. Most of the paintings in this portfolio have been reproduced from the Probes Press edition of Ashram Dais's Bengali version of Visa's epic. Writing on "Depiction of the Mahabharata Scenes in Indian Art" in The Mahabharata Revisited, Rai Anand Krishna concluded ".. Some scenes have been reported from stray examples in terracotta art of Bengal temples of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Modern painters of the Bengal School have also used the Mahabharata scenes, but that would require an independent study.." Indeed, it would - and this small volume may be treated as an hors d'ocuvre to the feat of paintings provided by painters of the Bengal Renaissance and after. Most of the paintings in this portfolio have been reproduced from the prabasi Press edition of Kasiram Das's Bengali version of Vyasa's epic, which was edited by Ramananda Chatterjee in 1926. Lyrical, romantic, other-worldly, this-worldly, spiritual, brutally real, evocative, horrific, horripilating, serene, cathartic - here is life's plenty.  The wondrously vivid pictorial richness of the Mahabharata is fascinating.