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1 online resource (672 pages) |
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Texts and Sources in the History of Religions, 132 |
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Texts and Sources in the History of Religions, 132
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Contents; Chronology of Works; I. Millenial Draupadis; Chapter One Draupadi's Hair; Chapter Two Draupadi's Garments; Chapter Three Siva, the Goddess, and the Disguises of the Pan?d?avas and Draupadi; Chapter Four Purity and Auspiciousness in the Sanskrit Epics; Chapter Five The Folklore of Draupadi: Saris and Hair; Chapter Six Orders of Diffusion in Indian Folk Religion; Chapter Seven Draupadi Cult Lilas; Chapter Eight Colonialist Lenses on the South Indian Draupadi Cult; Chapter Nine Review of Landscapes of Urban Memory; Chapter Ten Draupadi's Question |
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II. The Sacrificial Death of a Co-Wife's SonChapter Eleven Dying Before the Mahabharata War: Martial and Transsexual Body-Building for Arava?; Chapter Twelve Hair Like Snakes and Mustached Brides: Crossed Gender in an Indian Folk Cult; Chapter Thirteen Kuttan??avar: The Divine Lives of a Severed Head; Chapter Fourteen Kuttan??avar's Cross: Making That Young Bride, Whoever She Is, a Widow; III. Companion Studies; Chapter Fifteen The Indus Valley "Proto-Siva": Reexamined through Reflections on the Goddess, the Buffalo, and the Symbolism of |
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Chapter Sixteen Fathers of the Bride, Fathers of Sati: Myths Rites, and Scholarly PracticesChapter Seventeen Two Ways to Tell a Story: Alha in the Bhavis?ya Puran?a; Chapter Eighteen Boar and Twins: Comparing the Tulu Koti?-Cennaya Pad?dana and the Tamil Elder Brothers Story; Chapter Nineteen On the Handling of the Meat and Related Matters: Two South Indian Buffalo Sacrifices; Chapter Twenty Transmitting Mahabharatas: Another Look at Peter Brook; IV. Apparatus; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Mediterranean art histories -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Mediterranean art histories fast |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004216228 |
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9004216227 |
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1283161087 |
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9781283161084 |
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