Vol. 1: Quest for Immortality The book deals with three mythical accounts from the Mahabharata namely: (i) Garuda and the Nagas and the wager between Vinata and Kadru; (ii) Kaca, Sukra and Devayani; and (iii) The ‘Churning of the Ocean’. It presents a detailed study of these accounts and proposes that they have deeper ethnosocial implications. Vol. 2: Study in Patterns and Symbols The various mythical accounts, concerning awkward-looking Tests and Supranormal Birth, collected and faithfully preserved by the tradition of the suta-s with a belief of iti-ha-asa (“This happened so’ or “This was so’), are studied in this volume, taking into account the mythological patterns and symbols they present. Vol. 3: Probe in Early Dim History and Folklore In this volume are unearthed through myths some iti-ha-asa records, which shed light on the facts and incidents of the hoary past, as yet shrouded in mystery. The iti-ha-asa records through myths, such as those gathered round the sage Agastya and those of the advent of the river Ganga, can be taken as breathing the ‘true history’ from the modern day point of view. About the Author: Prof. Sadashiv Ambadas Dange is very well known in India and outside India for his writings—particularly those concerning Vedic and Puranic myths, rituals and practices. He was R.G. Bhandarkar-Professor, and Head, Deptt. of Sanskrit at the Bombay University. For his contribution to the study of Sanskrit and Indology he was honoured by the Asiatic Society of Bombay, the States of Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh and by the President of India with the Certificate of Honour. Prof. Dange’s numerous publications include Towards Understanding Hindu Myths; Legends in the Mahabharata; Sexual Symbolism from the Vedic Ritual; Encyclopaedia of Puranic Beliefs and Practices (in five volumes), and others.