, repetition, introduc- tion, refrain, rhythm, rhyme, and allegory, even in the language of lamentation of an illiterate village woman. Thus Visvanatha's definition of poetry (vakyam rasatmakam kavyam SD 1.3, poetry is a language of emotion) seems to be a universally recognized fact....
The preceding age – theVedicage – and even theUpanishadikage (preceding, contemporary and later) never speak ofBirth-Mythsor Physical Immortality etc.; in fact, theRshispray for 100 years of life, not more. Then, how could the Mahabharatan age explode all of a sudden whenSupernatural Birt...