Argument and design : : the unity of the Mahabharata / / edited by Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee.

• Superior document: Brill's Indological Library, Volume 49
• TeilnehmendeR: Adluri, Vishwa,; Bagchee, Joydeep,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Indological library ; Volume 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (494 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, discussing the Mahābhārata’s upākhyānas , subtales that branch off from the central storyline and provide vantage points for reflecting on it. Contributors include: Vishwa Adluri,...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material
• Introduction: From Supplementary Narratives to Narrative ­Supplements / Vishwa Adluri
• 1 Not without Subtales: Telling Laws and Truths in the Sanskrit Epics / Alf Hiltebeitel
• 2 On the Upatva of Upākhyā­nas: Is the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa an Upākhyā­na of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta? / Robert P. Goldman
• 3 The Epic’s Singularization to Come: The Śakuntalā and Yayāti Upākhyā­nas in the Southern Recension of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta / Joydeep Bagchee
• 4 Introductory Notes on the Literary Structure of the Mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvan / Greg Bailey
• 5 Of Daddies and Demons: The Rāmopākhyāna and the Rakṣovaṃśa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman
• 6 The Tale of an Old Monkey and a Fragrant Flower: What the Mahā­bhārata’s Rāmāyaṇa May Tell Us about the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta / Bruce M. Sullivan
• 7 Supernatural Conflicts, Unanimities, and Indra in the Main Story and Substories of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta / Fernando Wulff Alonso
• 8 Pride and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Mādhavī Exhibit in the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta Museum / Adheesh Sathaye
• 9 The Divine Androgyne: Crossing Gender and Breaking Hegemonies in the Ambā-Upākhyā­na of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta / Vishwa Adluri
• 10 Reflections on the Upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata / Adam Bowles
• 11 The Status of Upākhyānas in Madeleine Biardeau’s Reflections on the Mahābhārata / Nicolas Dejenne
• 12 Toward a Geography of the Mahābhārata’s Uñchavṛtti Brahman / Thennilapuram Mahadevan
• 13 Upākhyānas and the Harivaṃśa / Simon Brodbeck
• 14 The Geography of the Mahābhārata’s Upākhyānas / Alf Hiltebeitel
• Index / Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.