Yudhiṣṭhira, Salvation, and Selfless Action in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muñoz Gomez, Paloma.

Series:

Brill's Indological Library

Brill's Indological Library ; v.65

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Boston : BRILL, 2026.

Summary:

This book proposes that the Sanskrit Mahābhārata's main character, King Yudhiṣṭhira, serves as a conduit for the integration and organization of diverse ideas of salvation. Notably, he aids to redefine mokṣa as selfless action done for the sake of duty.

Contents:

Front Cover

‎Half-Title Page

‎Series Title Page

‎Title Page

‎Copyright Page

‎Contents

‎Acknowledgements

‎Abbreviations

‎Introduction

‎1. Book Structure

‎2. The Mahābhārata's Story and Its Framing Mythologies

‎Part 1

‎Chapter 1. The Study of the Mahābhārata, Yudhiṣṭhira, and Soteriology

‎1. Introduction

‎2. Perspectives on the Mahābhārata

‎2.1. Early Scholarship on the Mahābhārata

‎2.2. After the Publication of the Critical Edition

‎3. Yudhiṣṭhira in Scholarly Literature

‎3.1. Aśoka, dharma Fragmented, and Dharmarāja

‎3.2. The Mahābhārata and History

‎3.3. The Real King and the Ideal King in a World in Crisis

‎3.4. From Hero to Human

‎3.5. Yudhiṣṭhira's Education and Transformation

‎4. Soteriology and Yudhiṣṭhira

‎4.1. On the Term Soteriology

‎4.2. Soteriology in the Mahābhārata: pravṛtti, nivṛtti, and bhakti

‎4.3. Yudhiṣṭhira as a karmayogin

‎4.4. The Approach and Propositions of This Book

‎5. Conclusion

‎Chapter 2. The Problem of mokṣa: World Renunciation and Ritual

‎2. The Renouncer

‎2.1. The Problem of mokṣa

‎2.2. Solutions to the Problem of mokṣa

‎3. Framing the Mahābhārata: mokṣa as an Umbrella Term

‎3.1. The Mahābhārata's Self-Presentation as mokṣaśāstra

‎3.2. On dharma and mokṣadharma

‎3.3. The trivarga plus One

‎3.4. On Kingship and the trivarga plus mokṣa

‎4. Conclusion

‎Chapter 3. Karman and Transmigration: The Mahābhārata's Emphasis on Normative Conduct

‎2. The Doctrine of karman

‎2.1. The Two Paths in the Upaniṣads

‎3. Narratives on karman in the Mahābhārata

‎3.1. The Story of Yayāti

‎3.2. Śaunaka and Nahuṣa: Forest Teachings to Yudhiṣṭhira

‎3.3. Mārkaṇḍeya's Forest Teaching

‎3.4. The Story of the Worm

‎3.5. Nivṛtti Perspectives on karman

‎4. Conclusion.

‎Chapter 4. The Mahābhārata's Soteriologies and Yudhiṣṭhira

‎2. Soteriologies in the Mahābhārata

‎3. Heavenly Realms

‎4. A State beyond Impermanence

‎5. Heavenly Ascent and mokṣa

‎6. Living Liberation

‎7. A Single Path or Two Paths? Salvation for Householders

‎8. On karmayoga and Foregoing Selfish Desire

‎9. Conclusion

‎Part 2

‎Chapter 5. Royal and Householder Roles as Religious Vocations

‎2. Yudhiṣṭhira's Early Life

‎3. Royal and Householder Ideologies: Yudhiṣṭhira's Roles

‎4. Yudhiṣṭhira as King: rājasūya

‎5. Motivations to Sacrifice: Yudhiṣṭhira and Duryodhana

‎6. Conclusion

‎Chapter 6. The Dice Game: Yudhiṣṭhira's Flawed Understanding of Renunciation

‎2. The Role of the Dice Game in the Narrative

‎3. The Dice Sequence

‎4. Draupadī's Question: Kingship and Mastery of the Self

‎5. Abandoning the Self, Renunciation, and Learning

‎Chapter 7. Forest Teachings: svadharma and the Soteriology of mokṣa

‎2. Forest Teaching: Śaunaka

‎3. The Invisible Fruits of dharma

‎4. The pativratā and the Righteous Butcher

‎5. Negotiations in the Lead-Up to the War: Five Villages

‎Chapter 8. The trivarga plus mokṣa: Yudhiṣṭhira's Blend

‎2. Dialogues of the Pāṇḍavas

‎2.1. Early Śāntiparvan Dialogues

‎2.2. The Ṣaḍgītā

‎2.3. Yudhiṣṭhira's Blend

‎3. The Dharma King's Characterisation in the Light of the Ṣaḍgītā

‎3.1. Profiling Yudhiṣṭhira as a Renouncer

‎3.2. Internal Renunciation and Self-Sacrifice

‎4. The Ṣaḍgītā and Other Solutions to the Problem of mokṣa

‎4.1. Karmayoga, Yudhiṣṭhira's blend, and the Double Benefit of Desirelessness

‎4.2. Yudhiṣṭhira's Blend and the āśrama System

‎5. Conclusion.

‎Chapter 9. Yudhiṣṭhira's Royal Role: Supporting Others and the Cosmos through dharma

‎2. Reasons to Rule: The Welfare of the Cosmos

‎3. A Tree Made of dharma

‎4. Desire for Duty: The aśvamedha

‎5. Householder and King: Soteriological Dependence

‎Chapter 10. Yudhiṣṭhira's Ascent to Heaven

‎2. The Great Departure and the Ascent to Heaven

‎3. The Mahābhārata's Narrative Open-Endedness

‎4. Self-Sacrifice as Soteriological Advantage

‎5. On Some Virtues Leading to the devayāna

‎6. Karman: Decentring mokṣa

‎7. Conclusion

‎Concluding Remarks

‎Bibliography

‎Index

Back Cover.

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Other Format:

Print version: Muñoz Gomez, Paloma Yudhiṣṭhira, Salvation, and Selfless Action in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata

ISBN:

9789004759848

OCLC:

1587900231