Raja Yudhiṣṭhira

Author : Kevin McGrath
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501708213

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Raja Yudhisthira by Kevin McGrath Pdf

In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonetary polity and how the king becomes a ruler who is viewed as ritually divine. Based on his precise and empirical close reading of the text, McGrath then addresses the idea of heroic religion in both antiquity and today; for bronze-age heroes still receive great devotional worship in modern India and communities continue to clash at the sites that have been—for millennia—associated with these epic figures; in fact, the word hero is in fact more of a religious than a martial term.One of the most important contributions of Raja Yudhisthira, and a subtext in McGrath's analysis of Yudhisthira’s kingship, is the revelation that neither of the contesting moieties of the royal Hastinapura clan triumphs in the end, for it is the Yadava band of Krsna who achieve real victory. That is, it is the matriline and not the patriline that secures ultimate success: it is the kinship group of Krsna—the heroic figure who was to become the dominant Vaisnava icon of classical India—who benefits most from the terrible Bharata war.

Author : Kevin McGrath
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9386392739

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Raja Yudhiṣṭhira by Kevin McGrath Pdf

Author : Erika Fischer-Lichte,Torsten Jost,Milos Kosic,Astrid Schenka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000862331

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Performance Cultures as Epistemic Cultures, Volume I by Erika Fischer-Lichte,Torsten Jost,Milos Kosic,Astrid Schenka Pdf

This volume investigates performances as situated "machineries of knowing" (Karin Knorr Cetina), exploring them as relational processes for, in and with which performers as well as spectators actively (re)generate diverse practices of knowing, knowledges and epistemologies. Performance cultures are distinct but interconnected environments of knowledge practice. Their characteristic features depend not least on historical as well as contemporary practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures. The book presents case studies from diverse locations around the globe, including Argentina, Canada, China, Greece, India, Poland, Singapore, and the United States. Authored by leading scholars in theater, performance and dance studies, its chapters probe not only what kinds of knowledges are (re)generated in performances, for example cultural, social, aesthetic and/or spiritual knowledges; the contributions investigate also how performers and spectators practice knowing (and not-knowing) in performances, paying particular attention to practices and processes of interweaving performance cultures and the ways in which they contribute to shaping performances as dynamic "machineries of knowing" today. Ideal for researchers, students and practitioners of theater, performance and dance, (Re)Generating Knowledges in Performance explores vital knowledge-serving functions of performance, investigating and emphasizing in particular the impact and potential of practices and processes of interweaving of performance cultures that enable performers and spectators to (re)generate crucial knowledges in increasingly diverse ways.

Author : Swami Tapasyananda
Publisher : Sri Ramakrishna Math
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Srimad Bhagavad Gita - The Scripture of Mankind by Swami Tapasyananda Pdf

This book provides an economy edition of the Text, with all facilities for serious students to study the verses - these facilities being introductory summary of each chapter, the text in Devanagiri, its transliteration in Roman script, the prose order with word for word meaning in Roman script, running translation and annotations wherever necessary. It is hoped that this edition will meet the need of a large cross section of spiritual enquirers who want to study the Gita in the Original .

Author : Raj Balkaran,McComas Taylor
Publisher : ANU Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781760465902

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Visions and Revisions in Sanskrit Narrative by Raj Balkaran,McComas Taylor Pdf

Sanskrit narrative is the lifeblood of Indian culture, encapsulating and perpetuating insights and values central to Indian thought and practice. This volume brings together eighteen of the foremost scholars across the globe, who, in an unprecedented collaboration, accord these texts the integrity and dignity they deserve. The last time this was attempted, on a much smaller scale, was a generation ago, with Purāṇa Perennis (1993). The pre-eminent contributors to this landmark collection use novel methods and theory to meaningfully engage Sanskrit narrative texts, showcasing the state of contemporary scholarship on the Sanskrit epics and purāṇas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 742 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : UOM:39015041169015

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Dr. K. Kunjunni Raja Felicitation Volume by Anonim Pdf

Festschrift honoring K. Kunjunni Raja, Sanskritist; comprises articles on his life and works and Sanskrit studies.

Author : Kanad Sinha
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,7 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.

Author : Edward Washburn Hopkins
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819602280

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Epic Mythology by Edward Washburn Hopkins Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B3736585

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Dr. C. Kunhan Raja Presentation Volume by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mallar Chatterjee
Publisher : Readomania
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Yudhisthira by Mallar Chatterjee Pdf

Though the Kuru family survived on Vyasadeva’s seeds, he never belonged to the house. Moreover, being an ascetic, he was even exempted from obligations of the complicated dynamics of human relationships. This armed him with a ruthless dispassion and he could go on telling his stories with stoical detachment, free from any bias and uncontaminated by quintessential human dilemmas. But had any of his characters given his own account of the story, would not that have lent a different dimension to the events seducing ordinary mortals like us to identify, if not compare, our private crises with those of our much celebrated heroes? The Unfallen Pandava is an imaginary autobiography of Yudhishthira, attempting to follow the well-known story of the Mahabharata through his eyes. In the process of narrating the story, he examines his extremely complicated marriage and relationship with brothers turned co-husbands, tries to understand the mysterious personality of his mother in a slightly mother-fixated way, conducts manic and depressive evaluation of his own self and reveals his secret darkness and philosophical confusions with an innate urge to submit to a supreme soul. His own story lacks the material of an epic, rather it becomes like confession of a partisan who, prevailing over other more swashbuckling characters, finally discovers his latent greatness and establishes himself as the symbolic protagonist.

Author : Raj Balkaran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000060355

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The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth by Raj Balkaran Pdf

In analyzing the parallels between myths glorifying the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, and those glorifying the Sun, Sūrya, found in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, this book argues for an ideological ecosystem at work in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa privileging worldly values, of which Indian kings, the Goddess (Devī), the Sun (Sūrya), Manu and Mārkaṇḍeya himself are paragons. This book features a salient discovery in Sanskrit narrative text: just as the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa houses the Devī Māhātmya glorifying the supremacy of the Indian Great Goddess, Durgā, it also houses a Sūrya Māhātmya, glorifying the supremacy of the Sun, Sūrya, in much the same manner. This book argues that these māhātmyas were meaningfully and purposefully positioned in the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, while previous scholarship has considered this haphazard interpolation for sectarian aims. The book demonstrates that deliberate compositional strategies make up the Saura–Śākta symbiosis found in these mirrored māhātmyas. Moreover, the author explores what he calls the "dharmic double helix" of Brahmanism, most explicitly articulated by the structural opposition between pravṛtti (worldly) and nivṛtti (other-worldy) dharmas. As the first narrative study of the Sūrya Māhātmya, along with the first study of the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa (or any Purāṇa), as a narrative whole, this book will be of interest to academics in the field of Religion, Hindu Studies, South Asian Studies, Goddess Studies, Narrative Theory and Comparative Mythology.

Author : S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer
Publisher : Trivandrum : Department of Sanskrit, University of Kerala
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Sanskrit literature
ISBN : UOM:39015034767866

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Kerala Sanskrit Literature by S. Venkitasubramonia Iyer Pdf

Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190878351

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Freud's Mahabharata by Alf Hiltebeitel Pdf

Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahthe companion volume to Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" to a new theory about the Mah

Author : Girindra Nath Dutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1904
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4UM3

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History of the Hutwa Raj by Girindra Nath Dutt Pdf

Author : Kanshi Ram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Sanskrit language
ISBN : UOM:39015051608720

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Uṇādi-sūtras in the Sanskrit Grammatical Tradition by Kanshi Ram Pdf