Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Transliteration; List of abbreviations; Introduction: stories and sūtras; 1 Truth versus truthfulness in the Mahābhārata story of Ekalavya; 2 Is mokṣa pleasant? An alternative discourse on freedom in the eighth chapter of the Chāndogya-Upaniṣad; 3 Shankara in the King's body: knowing by living through; 4 Memory, forgetting, self-identity: philosophical inscriptions in A.R. Murugadoss' Ghajini; Bibliography; Index
