Yayati
King Yayati marries Devayani, daughter of the sage Shukracharya, and takes to his bed her waiting-woman Sharmishtha, a princess enslaved by an old quarrel; when the deception comes out her father curses him with immediate old age. Shukracharya relents far enough to let the curse be passed to whichever of his sons will accept it, and the novel's three voices — king, wife and bondwoman — argue the bargain each from their own side. Khandekar's late novel took the first Jnanpith awarded to Marathi and is read as a parable of appetite rather than as mythology.
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- retells ↑ The Mahabharata
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