India - China: Relations And Developments

[shamu]

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Dec 1 2006, 11:56 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Dec 1 2006, 11:56 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Mahabharata in Chinese sold out, goes into second edition</b>
"The 5,000 sets released in the first edi­tion were bought not just by libraries ­as happens m the case of most such works - <b>but also by ordinary readers</b>," Huang, who is a teacher at the university's San­skrit department, said. The sets are mod­erately priced at 680 yuan (Rs 3,862) each.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

I'm not sure about other parts of India, but in Kerala and I believe in TN too there is a belief that a copy of Mahabharatha should not be kept at home. Many people say that it can cause family feude. Probably this message also be passed to Chinese who buy the book for their home collection.