Hiltebeitel, Alf, Rethinking the Mahābhārata. A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
About: This article is published in Indo-Iranian Journal.The article was published on 2002-01-01. It has received 40 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dharma.
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31 Mar 2016
TL;DR: The first study to systematically confront the question of how Brahmanism transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia is as discussed by the authors, focusing on the formative period of this phenomenon, roughly between Alexander and the Guptas.
Abstract: This is the first study to systematically confront the question how Brahmanism, which was geographically limited and under threat during the final centuries BCE, transformed itself and spread all over South and Southeast Asia. Brahmanism spread over this vast area without the support of an empire, without the help of conquering armies, and without the intermediary of religious missionaries. This phenomenon has no parallel in world history, yet shaped a major portion of the surface of the earth for a number of centuries. This book focuses on the formative period of this phenomenon, roughly between Alexander and the Guptas.
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19 Aug 2019
TL;DR: In this article, a translation of the last part of the Mahābhārata is described, with a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the translation process and a selection of problematic passages in relation to previous translations.
Abstract: This paper is a philological and textological complement to a new translation, produced in Cardiff, of the Sanskrit Harivaṃśa, the final part of the Mahābhārata. The paper is a project report, providing a detailed behind-the-scenes account of the translation project. It discusses the specific 118-chapter published text that was chosen for translation, and the reasons for that choice; it discusses the emendations that were made to that text, and the reasons for making them; it discusses the method, process, and conventions of the translation, with particular reference to the intended audience, the accompanying apparatus, the format of the translation, its literary and linguistic register, and the treatment of specific words; and it discusses a selection of problematic passages in relation to previous translations. The paper’s discussion of the Sanskrit Harivaṃśa is wide-ranging, rigorous, unprecedentedly in-depth, and makes significant original contributions in the fields of Sanskrit philology, translation studies, and world literature. The appendix to the paper is a searchable electronic version of the Sanskrit Harivaṃśa text that was translated.
59 citations
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25 Mar 2020
TL;DR: This paper presented metodos de utilización, fuentes y delimitación cronologica, metodologies for utilizacion, and metodas of utilization, fenómeno, and delimitacion.
Abstract: Projecto “Las fuentes grecorromanas del Mahābhārata: metodos de utilizacion, fuentes y delimitacion cronologica”, Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigacion Cientifica y Tecnica de Excelencia, Ministerio de Economia, Industria y Competitividad, Espana. HAR2016-74930-P.
30 citations
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...A date around the change of era fits well with the dates proposed by several unitarian and 244 non-unitarian scholars (see Hiltebeitel 2001, 18-21)....
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...…consider that in the Mbh. there are less “codes” to unveil than references or allusions (Hiltebeitel 2011b, 514, n. 4), in the same way that its author/s do not “transpose” Vedic sacrifices using them as schemas or “allegorize” older stories in a different (epic) register (Hiltebeitel 2001, 119)....
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25 Feb 2010
TL;DR: A review of Alsdorf by Jan Heesterman and a classical follow-up article by H.-P. Schmidt, 'The Origin of Ahimsa' can be found in this article.
Abstract: Introduction. Abbreviations 1. Contributions to the History of Vegetarianism and Cow Veneration in India 2. Bibliography. Appendix I: Review of Alsdorf by Jan Heesterman. Appendix II: Classical follow-up article by H.-P. Schmidt, 'The Origin of Ahimsa. Appendix III: do, Ahimsa and Rebirth. Appendix IV: H.R. Kapadia's Critical Review of Western Interpretations of Early Jaina Vegetarianism: 'Prohibition of Flesh Eating in Jainism'
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