the end of the parvan. A typical page from the critical edition looks like this:

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Ever since the critical edition (also known as the Poona edition) of the Mahābhārata was completed, practically all Western scholarly work has focused on it. The Chicago translation based on the critical edition began in the 1970s with J.A.B. van Buitenen and was continued by his students after his death. It is still incomplete. Indian economist and Sanskritist Bibek Debroy recently completed his English translation, also based on the critical edition. The Clay Sanskrit library deviated from this trend by translating the vulgate (the most commonly accepted version of the epic, and on which the famous 17th century commentary [Bhavadīpa] of Nīlakaṇṭha is based). Gita Press Gorakhpur also uses the vulgate forAn Australian artist convicted in Iceland after biting off her abusive husband's tongue has lost her bid to have her case reviewed in the country's highest court but vowed to keep fighting for domestic violence victims.

Sunshine Coast woman Nara Walker, 28, was convicted in Iceland's District Court last year of the serious assault of her then-husband and the assault of an Icelandic woman during a violent confrontation at the couple's Reykjavik apartment in the early hours of November 1, 2017.

Ms Walker's graphic allegations of repeated domestic violence - including rape, physical assault and drugging – were supported by text message evidence but those and her claims of self-defence were not enough to prevent her conviction nor have it overturned on appeal.

Nara Walker has suffered a fresh legal blow