Reading the fifth Veda : studies on the Mahabharata : essays / by Alf Hiltebeitel ; edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee.

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Machine generated contents note: ch. One Weighting Orality and Writing in the Sanskrit Epics -- ch. Two Primary Process of the Hindu Epics -- ch. Three More Rethinking the Mahabharata: Toward a Politics of Bhakti -- ch. Four Why Itihäsa? New Possibilities and Limits in Considering the Mahabharata as History -- ch. Five Archetypal Design of the Two Sanskrit Epics -- ch. Six Not Without Subtales: Telling Laws and Truths in the Sanskrit Epics -- ch. Seven Ncirtiyaniya and Early Reading Communities of the Mahabharata -- ch. Eight Among Friends: Marriage, Women, and Some Little Birds -- ch. Nine Epic Asvamedhas -- ch. Ten Authorial Paths Through the Two Sanskrit Epics: Via the Ramopakhyana -- ch. Eleven Mapping Bhakti in the Sanskrit Epics: Friendship, Hospitality, and Separation -- ch. Twelve On Reading Fitzgerald's Vyasa -- ch. Thirteen Bhisma's Sources -- ch. Fourteen Nahusa in the Skies: A Human King of Heaven -- ch. Fifteen Kpria in the Mahribhärata: The Death of Kama -- ch. Sixteen Brothers, Friends, and Charioteers: Parallel Episodes in the Irish and Indian Epics -- ch. Seventeen Two Kmas on One Chariot: Upanisadic Imagery and Epic Mythology -- ch. Eighteen Buddhism and the Mahabharata: Boundary Dynamics in Textual Practice -- ch. Nineteen Kpria at Mathuri -- ch. Twenty Empire, Invasion, and India's National Epics -- ch. Twenty-One Role, Role Model, and Function: The Sanskrit Epic Warrior in Comparison and Theory.

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