TY - BOOK AU - Hiltebeitel,Alf AU - Adluri,Vishwa AU - Bagchee,Joydeep TI - Reading the fifth Veda: studies on the Mahabharata : essays T2 - Numen book series SN - 9789004185661 AV - BL1138.26 .H44 2010eb U1 - 294.5/923046 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Mahābhārata KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Critique, interprétation, etc KW - fast KW - RELIGION KW - Hinduism KW - Sacred Writings KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=377356 ER -