| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 560 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-542) and index. |
| Contents |
Oral epics -- The elder brothers and the heroes of Palnāḍu -- The epic of Pābūjī -- Opening Ālhā -- The nine-lākh chain -- The story of Kq̣ṛṇāṃśa -- Kurukṛetra II -- Time-routes through the Kq̣ṛṇāṃśacarita -- Their name is legion -- The ballad of Rāja Desing -- Barbarīka, Aravāṉ, Kūttāṇṭavar: furthuring the case of the severed head -- The myth of the Agnivaṃśa -- Draupadī becomes Belā, Belā becomes Satī. |
| Summary |
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics--the Mahabharata and the Ramayana--continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Drau. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mahābhārata -- History.
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Mahābhārata. |
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History. |
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Mahabharata -- Historia. |
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Mahābhārata -- Histoire. |
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Draupadī (Hindu mythological character)
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Draupadī (Hindu mythological character) |
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Rajput (Indic people) -- Religious life.
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Rajput (Indic people) |
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Religious life. |
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Dalits -- India -- Religion.
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Dalits. |
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India. |
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Religion. |
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Hinduism -- Relations -- Islam.
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Hinduism. |
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Relations. |
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Islam. |
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Islam -- Relations -- Hinduism.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hiltebeitel, Alf. Rethinking India's oral and classical epics. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999 0226340503 9780226340500 (DLC) 98008762 (OCoLC)39347044 |
| ISBN |
9780226340555 (electronic book) |
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0226340554 (electronic book) |
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9780226340500 (alkaline paper) |
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0226340503 (alkaline paper) |
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0226340503 (alkaline paper) |
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0226340511 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226340517 |
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