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1 online resource (464 pages). |
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text file |
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SUNY Series in Hindu Studies
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SUNY series in Hindu studies.
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Foreword -- 1 An Introduction to the Literature of the Mahābhārata -- Always Wanting These Stories -- The Story -- The Mahābhārata Genre -- A Contextual Introduction to the Essays -- Part I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata -- Part II: Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in Poetry and Performance -- Part III: Regional and Vernacular Mahābhāratas from Premodern South Asia -- Part IV: Mahābhāratas of Modern South Asia -- A Story's Cycle of Rebirth -- Part I: The Manyness of the Sanskrit Mahābhārata |
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2 Ā Garbhāt: Murderous Rage and Collective Punishment as Thematic Elements in Vyāsa's Mahābhārata -- 3 The Invention of Irāvān -- Introduction -- The Texture of Battle Narration in the Bhīṛmaparvan -- The Birth of Irāvān -- The Death of Irāvān -- Irāvān and the Rākṛasas -- Conclusion -- 4 Bodies That Don't Matter: Gender, Body, and Discourse in the Narrative of Sulabhā -- Part II: Sanskrit Mahābhāratas in Poetry and Performance -- 5 The Remembered Self: Arjuna as Bq̣hannalā in the Pañcarātra -- Arjuna as Bq̣hannaḍā in the Virāṭaparvan -- Arjuna as Bq̣hannalā in the Pañcarātra |
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Arjuna as Śiva, Arjuna as Śleṛa -- 6 The Lord of Glory and the Lord of Men: Power and Partiality in Māgha's Śiśupālavadha -- Kq̣ṛṇa's Meeting with King Yudhiṛṭhira -- Kingship and Kingdom in the Śiśupālavadha -- Sharing a Single Throne -- Conclusion -- 7 What Are the Goals of Life? The Vidūṛaka's Interpretation of the Puruṛārthas in Kulaśekhara's Subhadrādhanañjaya -- The Puruṛārthas in Kūṭiyāṭṭam: A Counterpoint Narration of the Goals of Life -- Day One: Preparations -- Day Two: Vivādam-Dispute and Settlement -- Day Three: Vinodam and Vañcanam-Amusement and Deceit -- Day Four: Aśanam-Feasting |
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Day Five: Rājaseva-Serving a King -- 8 How Do We Remember Śakuntalā? The Mahābhārata and Kālidāsa's Drama on the Contemporary Indian Stage -- The Three Śakuntalās of Ensemble 86 -- Śakuntalā Alone-Rita Ganguly's Tridhara -- Igniting Cultural Memory in Kirtana Kumar's Shakuntala Remembered -- Conclusion -- Part III: Regional and Vernacular Mahābhāratas from Premodern South Asia -- 9 An Old Dharma in a New Age: Duryodhana and the Reframing of Epic Ethics in Ranna's Sāhasabhīmavijaya -- Dharmic Tension in the Mahābhārata -- Who Killed Droṇa? -- Bhīma's Heroic "Triumphs" |
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Wrestling Gone Wrong: A New Winner in the Kirātārjunīya -- Conclusion: A Different Dharma -- 10 Three Poets, Two Languages, One Translation: The Evolution of the Telugu Mahābhāratamu -- Telugu Mahābhāratamu -- Nannaya: Early Experimentations in Telugu -- Tikkana: Dramatic Flair in Virāṭa's Court -- Ĕq̣q̣ana: An Iconic Return to the Sanskrit Mahābhārata -- Conclusion -- 11 The Fate of Kīcaka in Two Jain Apabhramsha Mahābhāratas -- Early and Medieval Jain Mahābhāratas: An Overview -- Two Jain Mahābhāratas in Apabhramsha -- Introducing Kīcaka -- Raïdhū's Harivaṃsapurāṇa |
| Note |
Svayambhūdeva's Riṭṭhaṇemicariu. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mahābhārata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Mahābhārata. |
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Mahābhārata -- Influence.
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Mahābhārata -- Critique, interprétation, etc. |
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Mahābhārata -- Influence. |
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Mahābhārata. |
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Added Author |
Pillai, Sohini, 1990-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hawley, Nell Shapiro Many Mahābhāratas Albany : State University of New York Press,c2021 9781438482415 |
| ISBN |
9781438482422 |
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1438482426 |
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