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Brockington: Battle, Bards and Brāhmins

Brockington, John [Hrsg.]:
Battle, Bards and Brāhmins / ed. by John Brockington. - Delhi : Motilal Banarsidass, 2012. - xii, 461 S. - (Papers of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference ; 2)
ISBN 978-81-208-3604-4
Rs. 750,00
US$ 29,75 (South Asia Books)
US$ 45,00 (Vedams Books)
DDC: 891.209

Beschreibung
This volume, the second in the Proceedings of the 13th World Sanskrit Conference (Edinburgh, July 2006), reflects the continued increase in interest in the Sanskrit epics seen in recent years, containing no less than 19 articles (a larger number than in the corresponding volume from the 12th WSC at Helsinki) by a number of distinguished scholars in the section devoted to the Sanskrit epics. The great majority of the articles focus on the Mahabharata but several focus on the Ramayana, as well as one on the Harivamsa. The variety of approaches adopted by their authors underlines the vitality of this area of research and collectively these articles make a major contribution to our understanding of the history of these massive works, their relationship to each other and their place in the total field of Sanskrit literature and indeed of Indian literature and culture as a whole. The articles are grouped according to the text that they are mainly focussing on (in the order Mahabharata, Harivamsa, Ramayana) and within that in an order which seeks to bring related topics together, beginning with the genealogical issues that underpin all of the narrative in each of the texts and ending with the study of a retelling of one of them, the Anandaramayana. The editor has ensured a degree of uniformity of appearance and of bibliographic reference but had no wish to rein in the diversity of expression and approach to be found in the feast of articles here assembled. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
General Preface. v
Introduction. vii
SIMON BRODBECK:
Vaiśaṃpāyana’s Mahābhārata Patriline. 1
N. J. ALLEN:
Bhārata Genealogy: The Close Parental-Generation Males. 39
ANGELIKA MALINAR:
Duryodhana’s Truths: Kingship and Divinity in Mahābhārata 5.60. 51
DANIELLE FELLER:
Bhīma’s Quest for the Golden Lotuses (Mahābhārata 3.146–153 and 3.157–159). 79
PAOLO MAGNONE:
Uttaṅka’s Quest. 101
JAMES HEGARTY:
What Need Has He of the Waters of Puṣkara? The Narrative Construction of tīrtha in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata. 129
ALF HILTEBEITEL:
Mapping bhakti through Hospitality and Friendship in the Sanskrit Epics. 157
ADHEESH SATHAYE:
Magic Cows and Cannibal Kings: The Textual Performance of the Viśvāmitra Legends in the Mahābhārata. 195
WENDY J. PHILLIPS-RODRIGUEZ:
Unrooted Trees: A Way around the Dilemma of Recension. 217
ANTONELLA COSI:
Upamās Occurring in Speeches: ‘Abusive’ Similes in the Sabhāparvan and Karṇaparvan. 231
SVEN SELLMER:
The Heart in the Mahābhārata. 247
JAMES L. FITZGERALD:
The Sāṃkhya-Yoga ‘Manifesto’ at Mahābhārata 12.289–290. 259
YAROSLAV VASSILKOV:
The Boar Shakes the Mud off: A Specific Motif in the Varāhakathā of the Great Epic and Purāṇas. 301
HORST BRINKHAUS:
The 16,108 Wives of Kṛṣṇa in the Harivaṃśa. 315
MARY BROCKINGTON:
‘Surprise, Surprise!’ Authors' Stratagems and Audiences' Expectations in the Rāmāyaṇa. 329
JOHN BROCKINGTON:
‘Then in His Warlike Wrath Rāma Bent His Bow’: Weaponry of the Early Rāmāyaṇa. 349
SALLY J. SUTHERLAND GOLDMAN:
Nikumbhilā’s Grove: Rākṣasa Rites in Vālmīki’s Rāmāyaṇa. 359
URMI S. SHAH:
A Comparative Study of Polity in the Nītiprakāśikā and the Rāmāyaṇa (Bālakāṇḍa and Ayodhyākāṇḍa). 385
VIDYUT AKLUJKAR:
The Locus of the Ānandarāmāyaṇa. 415
Contributors. 433
Index of Epic Passages Cited. 437
General Index. 457

Herausgeber
JOHN BROCKINGTON, Emeritus Professor of Sanskrit, University of Edinburgh. Profile page.

Quellen: Motilal Banarsidass; Vedams Books; South Asia Books; Mitteilung in der Mailing-Liste "Indology", vom 12. Dez. 2012
Bildquelle: Motilal Banarsidass
Bibliographie: [1]


References

  1. Brockington, John [Hrsg.] (2012).  Battle, Bards and Brāhmins. 13th World Sanskrit Conference. xii, 461 S.