When the goddess was a woman : mahābhārata ethnographies : essays. / Volume 2 / / by Alf Hiltebeitel ; edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.

• Superior document: Numen book series ; v. 132
• Author: Hiltebeitel, Alf.
• TeilnehmendeR: Adluri, Vishwa.; Bagchee, Joydeep.
• Publicatiejaar: 2011
• Taal: English
• Reeks: Studies in the history of religions ; v. 132.
• Fysieke beschrijving: 1 online resource (672 p.)
• Aantekeningen: Description based upon print version of record.

Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all b...