Reading the Fifth Veda Studies on the Mahabharata-- Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel. Volume 1.

Reading the Fifth Veda Studies on the Mahabharata-- Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel. Volume 1.

Often spoken of as the 'Fifth Veda', id est, as a text in continuity with the four Vedas and outweighing them all in size and import, the Mahābhārata presents a complex mythological and narrative landscape, incorporating fundamental ethical, social, philosophic, and pedagogic issues. In a...

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Main Author: Adluri, V.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.

Series: Numen Book Series 131.
Numen Book Series Online, ISBN: 9789004380837.

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Mah > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Mahābhārata.
Ramayana (Banker, Ashok)

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Call Number: BL1138.26 .H44 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter One. Weighting Orality And Writing In The Sanskrit Epics /
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  • Chapter Two. The Primary Process Of The Hindu Epics /
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  • Chapter Three. More Rethinking The Mahābhārata: Toward A Politics Of Bhakti /
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  • Chapter Four. Why Itihāsa? New Possibilities And Limits In Considering The Mahābhārata As History /
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  • Chapter Five. The Archetypal Design Of The Two Sanskrit Epics /
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  • Chapter Six. Not Without Subtales:Telling Laws And Truths In The Sanskrit Epics /
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  • Chapter Seven. The NārāyaṇĪya And Early Reading Communities Of The Mahābhārata /
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  • Chapter Eight. Among Friends: Marriage, Women, And Some Little Birds /
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  • Chapter Nine. Epic Aśvamedhas /
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  • Chapter Ten. Authorial Paths Through The Two Sanskrit Epics: Via The Rāmopākhyāna /
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  • Chapter Eleven. Mapping Bhakti In The Sanskrit Epics: Friendship, Hospitality, And Separation /
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  • Chapter Twelve. On Reading Fitzgerald's Vyāsa /
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  • Chapter Thirteen. Bhīṣma's Sources /
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  • Chapter Fourteen. Nahuṣa In The Skies: A Human King of Heaven /
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  • Chapter Fifteen. Kṛṣṇ̣a In The Mahābhārata: The Death Of Karṇa /
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  • Chapter Sixteen. Brothers, Friends, And Charioteers: Parallel Episodes In The Irish And Indian Epics /
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  • Chapter Seventeen. The Two Kṛṣṇ̣as On One Chariot: Upaniṣadic Imagery And Epic Mythology /
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  • Chapter Eighteen. Buddhism And The Mahābhārata: Boundary Dynamics In Textual Practice /
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  • Chapter Nineteen. Kṛṣṇ̣a At Mathurā /
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  • Chapter Twenty. Empire, Invasion, And India's National Epics /
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  • Chapter Twenty-One. Role, Role Model, And Function: The Sanskrit Epic Warrior In Comparison And Theory /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index /
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