A Work For Enthusiasts Of Mythology

The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals: Some Moral Tales from The Mahabharata by Wendy Doniger, Speaking Tiger.

Indian mythology is replete with intriguing characters and concepts, and one often wonders what purpose such elaborate craftsmanship of imagination serves.

From kingship to desire, death, anger and diseases, to the seemingly out-of-place animal character to the acts of gods that will keep one wondering, the Mahabharata’s Shanti and Anushasana Parvans is said to have the answers to an entire gamut of questions surrounding these enigmas.

Wendy Doniger’s The Dharma of Unfaithful Wives and Faithful Jackals is an engaging anthology, replete with knots and insights, and a delight for Hindu mythology enthusiasts.

Celebrated as ‘the greatest living mythologist’, octogenarian Wendy Diniger is an American Indologist with a career spanning over five decades. Her popular works include The Hindus: An Alternative History, Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook, The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology, and Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts.