Ramayana Versus Mahabharata

My Playful Comparison

By: Devdutt Pattanaik

Narrated by: Surjan Singh

It is a popular belief that the Ramayana is idealistic while the Mahabharata is realistic. Yet these two epics have identical building blocks, identical themes, and identical history.

In this groundbreaking book, Devdutt Pattanaik, India’s most popular mythologist, explores the similarities and dissimilarities between the two epics in a ‘playful analaysis’. Whether it is the family structure, forest exile, or war, the comparison between the two epics prove a startling point - the Mahabharata is in fact a reaction to the events in the Ramayana. Ideas in this book are distributed over 56 chapters. In temples ritual, Vishnu is offered eight different meals daily, different on all seven days of the week - 56 dishes in all. May each chapter serve as a mouthwatering offering to the Vishnu within you.

©2018 Devdutt Pattanaik (P)2019 Audible, Inc.

Great until the very end

It was a fascinating book until it got super woke towards the end. I just wanna learn about the stories and not about your woke tolerance towards people sexualities. I’m not a Vedic scholar, I’m pretty Vesadeva wasn’t concerned about pride!

Interesting comparison

Just loved the way both epics were compared but a few stories kept repeating which I didn’t like.

Bad pronunciation

I appreciate this author greatly, but the reader of this particular book seemed to mispronounce many common English words.