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Essays on the Mahābhārata / edited by A. Sharma.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.
- Brill's Indological library ; 1.
- Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
- Brill's Indological Library ; 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mahābhārata--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Mahābhārata.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is a classic study of a monumental work, the Mahābhārata perhaps the largest epic in world literature. It is an epic study of the epic, on account of the voluminous size it has itself attained, the kaleidoscopic variety of the themes it covers, the great diversity of approaches it canvasses, the wide array of contributions it includes and the high standard of scholarship it achieves. Contributors: Daniel H.H. Ingalls & Daniel H.H. Ingalls Jr; Barbara Stoler Miller; Edwin Gerow; Alf Hiltebeitel; Bimal K. Matilal; A.K. Ramanujan; Klaus Klostermaier; Gary A. Tubb; James L. Fitzgerald; Mary Carroll Smith; Ruth Katz; Indira V. Peterson; Vidyut Aklujkar; Bruce M. Sullivan; David Gitomer; William Sax; C.Z. Minkowski; B.N. Sumitra Bai and Robert J. Zydenos; Victoria Urubshurow and T.R. Singh; M.M. Despande; Braj M. Sinha; and John Dunham.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Editor: Arvind Sharma
- Preface / Arvind Sharma
- Manuscripts Used in the Critical Edition of the Mahābhārata: A Survey and Discussion / John Dunham
- The Mahābhārata: Stylistic Study, Computer Analysis, and Concordance / Daniel H.H. Ingalls and Jr. Daniel H.H. Ingalls
- Karṇabhāra: The Trial of Karṇa / Barbara Stoler Miller
- Ūrubhaṅga: The Breaking of the Thighs / Edwin Gerow
- Epic Parthenogenesis / Mary Carroll Smith
- Two Kṛṣṇas, Three Kṛṣṇas, Four Kṛṣṇas, More Kṛṣṇas: Dark Interactions in the Mahābhārata / Alf Hiltebeitel
- The Original Dakṣa Saga / Klaus Klostermaier
- The Sauptika Episode in the Structure of the Mahābhārata / Ruth Katz
- India's Fifth Veda: The Mahābhārata's Presentation of Itself / James L. Fitzgerald
- Śāntarasa in the Mahābhārata / Gary A. Tubb
- The Epic's Two Grandfathers, Bhīṣma and Vyāsa / Bruce M. Sullivan
- Arjuna's Combat with the Kirāta: Rasa and Bhakti in Bhāravi's Kirātārjunīya / Indira V. Peterson
- The Jaina Mahābhārata B.N. Sumitra Bai and Robert J. Zydenbos / B.N. Sumitra Bai
- Ritual and Performance in the Pāṇḍa Valīlā of Garhwal / William S. Sax
- RāKṣasa Bhīma: Wolfbelly Among Ogres and Brahmans in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata and the Veṇīsaṁhāra / David L. Gitomer
- Sāvitrī: Old and New / Vidyut Aklujkar
- The Epic Context of the Bhagavadgītā / Madhav M. Deshpande
- The Battle of Kurukṣetra in Topological Transposition / Victoria Urubshurow and T.R. Singh
- Arthaśāstra Categories in the Mahābhārata: From Daṇḍanîti to Rājadharma / Braj M. Sinha
- Snakes, Sattras, and the Mahābhārata / Christopher Minkowski
- Kṛṣṇa: In Defence of a Devious Divinity / Bimal Krishna Matilal
- Repetition in the Mahābhārata / A.K. Ramanujan
- Himalayan Variations on an Epic Theme / John Leavitt
- List of Contributors / Editor: Arvind Sharma
- Index / Editor: Arvind Sharma.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Essays on the Mahābhārata.
- ISBN:
- 9789004644670
- OCLC:
- 622467672
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004644670 DOI
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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