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

• Author: Adluri, V.
• TeilnehmendeR: Adluri, Vishwa.; Bagchee, Joydeep.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 131.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (694 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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...

Table of Contents

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