Essays On The Mahābhārata

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120827384

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Essays on the Mahābhārata by Arvind Sharma Pdf

Saiva Philosophy is an outgrowth of the religion characterized by the worship of the phallic form of God siva. Saivasm as a religion has persisted since the pre-historic time of the archaeological finds of Harappa and Mohenjodaro. It has a continuous history of at least five thousand years. It is a living faith praciced all over India. AN OUTLINE HISTORY OF SAIVA PHILOSOPHY first appeared as part of Volume III of Bhaskari in 1954 in the Princess of Wales Saraswati Bhavan Texts Series. The work is now reprinted as an independent volume to meet an increasing demand of the interested readers and scholars.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Mahābhārata
ISBN : OCLC:610308930

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Essays on the Mahabharata by Arvind Sharma Pdf

Author : Aurobindo Ghose,Sri Aurobindo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Hinduism
ISBN : 817058857X

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The Mahabharata by Aurobindo Ghose,Sri Aurobindo Pdf

In this volume have been collected all of Sri Aurobindo's independent prose writings on the Mahabharata, as well as his translations of passages from the epic. (Writings on and translations of the Bhagavad Gita are not included.) The principal prose work is an essay written in Baroda entitled, Notes on the Mahabharata , in which Sri Aurobindo put forward the idea that the original Mahabharata of Vyasa, consisting of some 24,000 verses, could be disengaged from later enlargements, accretions and additions by means of a detailed textual study. Three examples of this textual criticism have been found in Sri Aurobindo's notebooks. They are published here under the heading Detailed Notes. Two of them are appearing here for the first time. A few paragraphs on the Mahabharata from A Defence of Indian Culture have been included as an appendix. These repesent Sri Aurobindo's later thinking on the epic.

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 695 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004185661

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Reading the Fifth Veda by Alf Hiltebeitel Pdf

Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mah?bh?rata, the R?m?ya?a, and the south Indian cults of Draupad? and K?tt???avar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the foremost scholar in Indian epic studies today.

Author : Śibājī Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Bhagavadgītā
ISBN : 8125060715

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Three Essays on the Mahābhārata by Śibājī Bandyopādhyāẏa Pdf

Author : Simon Brodbeck,Brian Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134119943

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Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata by Simon Brodbeck,Brian Black Pdf

The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the most important texts to emerge from the Indian cultural tradition. At almost 75,000 verses it is the longest poem in the world, and throughout Indian history it has been hugely influential in shaping gender and social norms. In the context of ancient India, it is the definitive cultural narrative in the construction of masculine, feminine and alternative gender roles. This book brings together many of the most respected scholars in the field of Mahabharata studies, as well as some of its most promising young scholars. By focusing specifically on gender constructions, some of the most innovative aspects of the Mahabharata are highlighted. Whilst taking account of feminist scholarship, the contributors see the Mahabharata as providing an opportunity to frame discussion of gender in literature not just in terms of the socio-historical roles of men and women. Instead they analyze the text in terms of the wider poetic and philosophical possibilities thrown up by the semiotics of gendering. Consequently, the book bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata will be appreciated by readers interested in South Asian studies, Hinduism, religious studies and gender studies.

Author : Bimal Krishna Matilal
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788120806030

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Moral Dilemmas in the Mahabharata by Bimal Krishna Matilal Pdf

Here the collected papers explore the whole question of the relation between the mythopoetic and the moral in the context of the Mahabharata. Here we have a story of extreme complexity, characters that are unforgettable, and a cosmic context in which gods and men alike grapple with destiny. The obligations of kinship and friendship jostle with each other. The women characters, as in everyday life, seem to bear a very heavy load of the burden of life and to stand in a key position in almost every conflict. We are presented with predicaments at every turn. At times these predicaments seem to be aggravated by social structure. At other times they are cushioned by it. Philosophical tangles tied up with karma and dharma are interwoven with the mythopoetic material. Perhaps philosophical issues are pinpointed rather more than they are in Greek epic literature. The essays in this book treat the Mahabharata from an unusual angle, fastening on the moral dilemmas it presents. How universal are the dilemmas faced by the characters in the story, and are the dilemmas in fact resolved? In dealing with these questions, the discussions range over the meaning of the purusarthas, the institutions of marriage and the family, the concept of action in the Gita and the special predicaments faced by Draupadi, Arjuna and others. These studies invite the scholar to reflect afresh on the text and encourage the general reader to find in epic literature much that is relevant to life today.

Author : Arindam Chakrabarti,Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317342137

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Mahabharata Now by Arindam Chakrabarti,Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Pdf

The Mahabharata is at once an archive and a living text, a sourcebook complete by itself and an open text perennially under construction. Driving home this striking contemporary relevance of the famous Indian epic, Mahabharata Now focuses on the issues of narration, aesthetics and ethics, as also their interlinkages. The cross-disciplinary essays in the volume imaginatively re-interpret the ‘timeless’ classic in the light of the pre-modern Indian narrative styles, poetics, aesthetic codes, and moral puzzles; the Western theories on modern ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, psychoanalysis, and philosophy of science; and the contemporary social, ethical and political concerns. The essays are all united in their effort to situate the Mahabharata in the context of here and now without violating the sanctity of the ‘written text’ as we have it today. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Indian and comparative philosophy, Indian and comparative literature, cultural studies, and history.

Author : Simon Pearse Brodbeck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351886307

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The Mahabharata Patriline by Simon Pearse Brodbeck Pdf

The Sanskrit Mahabharata (which contains the Bhagavad Gita) is sorely neglected as a classic - perhaps the classic - of world literature, and is of particularly timely human importance in today's globalised and war-torn world. This book is a chronological survey of the Sanskrit Mahabharata's central royal patriline - a family tree that is also a list of kings. Brodbeck explores the importance and implications of patrilineal maintenance within the royal culture depicted by the text, and shows how patrilineal memory comes up against the fact that in every generation a wife must be involved, with the consequent danger that the children might not sustain the memorial tradition of their paternal family. The Mahabharata Patriline bridges a gap in text-critical methodology between the traditional philological approach and more recent trends in gender and literary theory. Studying the Mahabharata as an integral literary unit and as a story stretched over dozens of generations, this book casts particular light on the events of the more recent generations and suggests that the text's internal narrators are members of the family whose story they tell.

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226340538

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Rethinking the Mahabharata by Alf Hiltebeitel Pdf

The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have waylaid generations of scholars and ignited dozens of unresolved debates. In Rethinking the Mahabharata, Alf Hiltebeitel offers a unique model for understanding the great epic. Employing a wide range of literary and narrative theory, Hiltebeitel draws on historical and comparative research in an attempt to discern the spirit and techniques behind the epic's composition. He focuses on the education of Yudhisthira, also known as the Dharma King, and shows how the relationship of this figure to others-especially his author-grandfather Vyasa and his wife Draupadi-provides a thread through the bewildering array of frames and stories embedded within stories. Hiltebeitel also offers a revisionist theory regarding the dating and production of the original text and its relation to the Veda. No ordinary reader's guide, this volume will illuminate many mysteries of this enigmatic masterpiece. This work is the fourth volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics (Volume Three).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004216228

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When the Goddess was a Woman by Anonim Pdf

Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and the south Indian cults of Draupadī and Kūttāṇṭavar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian epic tradition by the foremost scholar in Indian epic studies today.

Author : David Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781000649406

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Peter Brook and the Mahabharata by David Williams Pdf

First published in 1991, Peter Brook and the Mahabharata is a collection of essays which contextualizes the production of Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata. Written by both scholars and collaborators on Brook’s production, these essays seek not only to discuss such issues as the politics of theatre interculturalism, but to describe the nature of the working process, and detail the technical problems engendered by touring a production of this size and complexity. Furnished with a new preface by the editor, the book continues to be crucial research work devoted to unravelling the mesmerising as well as the polarising enigma known as Peter Brook’s The Mahabharata. Thoroughly heterogenous and controversially irreverent, this book will be of interest to students of theatre, performance art, literature, South Asian studies and media studies.

Author : Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya,Vrinda Dalmiya,Gangeya Mukherji
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351061407

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Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata by Sibesh Chandra Bhattacharya,Vrinda Dalmiya,Gangeya Mukherji Pdf

The Mahabharata, one of the major epics of India, is a sourcebook complete by itself as well as an open text constantly under construction. This volume looks at transactions between its modern discourses and ancient vocabulary. Located amid conversations between these two conceptual worlds, the volume grapples with the epic’s problematisation of dharma or righteousness, and consequently, of the ideal person and the good life through a cluster of issues surrounding the concept of agency and action. Drawing on several interdisciplinary approaches, the essays reflect on a range of issues in the Mahabharata, including those of duty, motivation, freedom, selfhood, choice, autonomy, and justice, both in the context of philosophical debates and their ethical and political ramifications for contemporary times. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers engaged with philosophy, literature, religion, history, politics, culture, gender, South Asian studies, and Indology. It will also appeal to the general reader interested in South Asian epics and the Mahabharata.

Author : Brian Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000177428

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In Dialogue with the Mahābhārata by Brian Black Pdf

The Mahābhārata has been explored extensively as a work of mythology, epic poetry, and religious literature, but the text’s philosophical dimensions have largely been under-appreciated by Western scholars. This book explores the philosophical implications of the Mahābhārata by paying attention to the centrality of dialogue, both as the text’s prevailing literary expression and its organising structure. Focusing on five sets of dialogues about controversial moral problems in the central story, this book shows that philosophical deliberation is an integral part of the narrative. Black argues that by paying attention to how characters make arguments and how dialogues unfold, we can better appreciate the Mahābhārata’s philosophical significance and its potential contribution to debates in comparative philosophy today. This is a fresh perspective on the Mahābhārata that will be of great interest to any scholar working in religious studies, Indian/South Asian religions, comparative philosophy, and world literature.

Author : Kanad Sinha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190993450

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From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra by Kanad Sinha Pdf

Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the various ways of memorising and representing the past, even if those ways do not necessarily correspond to the methodology of the Occidental discipline called 'History'. Ancient India had several historical traditions, and the book focuses on one of them, the itihasa. It also shows how the Mahabharata is the best illustration of this tradition, and how a historical study of the contents of the text, with comparison with and corroboration from other contemporary sources and traditions, may help us restore the text in its original context in the bardic historical tradition about the Later Vedic Kurus. Is the Mahabharata then an authentic history? This book does not claim so. However, it shows how the text had originated as a critical reflection on a great period of transition, how it dealt with the conflicting philosophies of the transitional period, how it propounded its thesis by creating new kinds of heroes such as Yudhisthira and Krsna, and how the text was reworked when it was canonized by the brahmanas.