Dharma, disorder, and the political in ancient India : the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata / by Adam Bowles
- Bib ID:
- 4085367
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- Author:
- Bowles, Adam
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- Description:
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- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007
- xv, 430 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9789004158153
- 9004158154
- Series:
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- Brill's indological library ; v. 28.
- Brill's indological library, 0925-2916 ; v. 28.
- Summary:
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"The Apaddharmaparvan, 'the book on conduct in times of distress', is an important section of the great Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata which, despite its significance for Mahabharata studies and for the history of Indian social and political thought, has received little attention in scholarly literature. This book places the Apaddharmaparvan within its literary and ideological contexts. In so doing it explores the development of a conception of brahmanic kingship morally justifiable within the terms of a debate largely set by various alternative social movements of the period. This book further explores the implications for our understanding of the Mahabharata that follow from the Apaddharmaparvan's presentation as a poetically cohesive unit within itself and within the wider parameters of the Mahabharata."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Preface ix
- Abbreviations xi
- List of figures xiv
- Chapter One Introduction 1
- 1.1 The Apaddharmaparvan: A brief overview 3
- 1.2 A guide to this book: Propositions and directions 8
- 1.3 A note on chronologies 13
- 1.4 Mahabharata scholarship and the didactic corpora: What is 'Mahabharata'?
- 16 Chapter Two 'Distress' in the literature on
- dharma and artha 36
- 2.1 From the dharmasutras to the dharmasastras 37
- 2.1.1 The dharmasutras 37
- 2.1.2 Manu and beyond 44
- 2.2 The Arthasastra 54
- 2.2.1 The Arthasastra and the dharmasastras 55
- 2.2.2 Arthasastra analyses 58
- 2.2.3 The treasury 'kosa' 68
- 2.2.4 The weak king vs. the strong king 71
- 2.3 Concluding remarks 77
- Chapter Three Dharma 81
- 3.1 The origins of dharma: from dharman to dharma 82
- 3.1.1 Sauhitas 84
- 3.1.2 Brahmaoas 89
- 3.1.3 Upaniuads 94
- 3.1.4 Srauta- and g?hya-sutras 103
- 3.1.5 Towards the dharmasutras 109
- 3.2 The crisis and renewal of Brahmaoism: the ascetic and the
- g?hastha 117
- 3.3 Asoka 125 Chapter Four
- Yudhiunhira and the narrative frame of the
- Apaddharmaparvan 133
- 4.1 The Mahabharata, dharma, Yudhiunhira 135
- 4.2 Yudhiunhira's crisis, dharma, and the Apaddharmaparvan 151
- Chapter Five Strategies of integration 155
- 5.1 Integrative agents and transitional texts 155
- 5.2 Frame analysis 159
- 5.3 Interlocution and framing 163
- 5.4 Narrative motifs and rhetorical types 172
- 5.4.1 Before a narrator begins 172
- 5.4.2 Rhetorical types: coherence as a manner of speaking 177
- 5.5 Concluding remarks 189 Chapter Six Laws
- for a king in crisis: Texts on apaddharma I 190
- 6.1 'In praise of conduct procuring a treasury' 192
- 6.1.1 Yudhiunhira's questions to Bhiuma 191
- 6.1.2 Bhiuma's response to Yudhiunhira 192
- 6.1.3 The kosa 204
- 6.1.4 Justifications 207
- 6.1.5 The king's duty (dharma) 208
- 6.1.6 The king's salvation 210
- 6.2 'In praise of war' 211
- 6.3 'The conduct of a royal sage' 216
- 6.4 'A bandit's way of life' 224
- 6.5 'In praise of power' 229
- 6.6 'The deeds of Kapavya' 234
- 6.7 'Explaining what can and cannot be appropriated' 240
- 6.8 'The tale of the three fish' 243
- 6.9 'The dialogue between the cat and the mouse' 249
- 6.10 'The dialogue between Pujani and Brahmadatta' 258
- 6.11 'The dialogue between Kaoiika and Satruutapa' 262
- 6.12 'The dialogue between Visvamitra and the dog-
- cooker' 268
- 6.13 'In praise of wise brahmans' 280 Chapter Seven
- Diversions on a theme: Texts on apaddharma II
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- 7.1 'The dialogue between the dove and the hunter' 295
- 7.2 'The dialogue between Indrota and Parikuita' 306
- 7.3 'The dialogue between the vulture and the jackal' 319
- 7.4 'The dialogue between the wind and the Salmali tree' 330 Chapter Eight
- Setting things right: Transitional texts of the Apaddharmaparvan I 334
- 8.1 'The chapter on greed'. 335
- 8.2 'The chapter on ignorance' 340
- 8.3 'The chapter on self-restraint' 342
- 8.4 'The chapter on austerity' 347
- 8.5 'The chapter on the real' 349
- 8.6 'The dissolution of anger and so on' 353
- 8.7 'The chapter on bad men' 356 Chapter
- Nine Coda: Transitional texts of the Apaddharmaparvan II 359
- 9.1 'Concerning penance' 360
- 9.2 'The origin of the sword' 372
- 9.3 'The song in six parts' 382
- 9.4 'The tale of the ungrateful man' 391
- Chapter Ten Conclusion 405
- Bibliography 409
- Index 426.
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- Formerly CIP.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [409]-425) and index.
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