# Jaiminiya Ashvamedha Parva

- Link: https://writersworkshopindia.com/2016/02/15/jaiminiya-ashvamedha-parva/
- Published: 2016-02-15T23:57:26+00:00
- Author: shuktara

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**Transcreator:** Shekhar Kumar Sen, Edited by Dr Pradip Bhattacharya[⌊A sample cover of the book: midnight blue handloom sari with gold embossed nameplate and lettering for the title and author's name. The border of the sari lines the right hand margin of the cover.⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Jaimini-Asvamedhika-Parva.jpeg)
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Pages:** 488 **Year of Publication:** 2008 **Price:** HB Rs 800, FB Rs 500 **ISBN:**
HB 978-81-8157-849-5 (9788181578495) FB 978-81-8157-850-1 (9788181578501)

**About the Book**
 Translated from Sanskrit, shloka by shloka, by Shekhar Kumar
Sen, this is Jaimini’s version of _**The Asvamedhika Parva**_, in _**The Mahabharata**_.
The book has 5 colour miniatures from Emperor Akbar’s commissioned translation of_**
The Ashvamedha**_, a long detailed scholarly introduction and very useful glossaries
of war weapons, trees and plants and other material in Jaimini’s work.

For customers living outside of India, the price of the book is **$70 (USD)**, which
includes registered postage charges.

In his review of the book for _Religions of South Asia_ 4.1 (2010), Simon Brodbeck
writes:

> “The book includes a seven-page contents list with summaries of each chapter. 
> This is a valuable reference tool, and readers will consult it often—but perhaps
> not as often as they might have, for it is hidden away after the introduction,
> on pp. 72–78. It might also have been enhanced had the chapter titles been copied
> from the colophons at the end of each chapter and pasted in as headings for the
> chapter summaries, thus giving an at-a-glance impression of which event is considered
> to be the most salient in any given chapter. 
>  
> The book has four useful glossaries; but it lacks an index, and this will exasperate
> many readers. If anyone were to compile one and post it online, they would surely
> gain the merit of a thousand _aśvamedha_s. But despite the book’s minor drawbacks,
> Sen, Bhattacharya, and the Writers Workshop are to be heartily and gratefully 
> congratulated for the contribution they have made. This book will undoubtably 
> reinvigorate scholarly and public interest in Jaimini’s _Āśvamedhikaparvan_, and
> hopefully will pave the way towards an eventual dual-language edition with more
> extensive apparatus and interpretive notes.”