Rethinking India's oral and classical epics : Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits / Alf Hiltebeitel.

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Hiltebeitel, Alf

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TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 560 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226340555
0226340554
9780226340500
0226340503
1282069926
9781282069923
9786612069925
6612069929

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking India's oral and classical epics.DDC classification:

294.5/923046 22

LOC classification:

BL1138.4.D72 H57 1999eb

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Contents:

Oral epics -- The elder brothers and the heroes of Palnāḍu -- The epic of Pābūjī -- Opening Ālhā -- The nine-lākh chain -- The story of Kṛṣṇāṃśa -- Kurukṣetra II -- Time-routes through the Kṛṣṇāṃśacarita -- Their name is legion -- The ballad of Rāja Desing -- Barbarīka, Aravān̲, 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-542) and index.

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.