Dharma : its early history in law, religion, and narrative /

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Author / Creator:Hiltebeitel, Alf.
Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Description:xvii, 747 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:South Asia research
South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8828348
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ISBN:9780195394238 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0195394232 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Asoka Maurya
  • 3. A Vedic History of Dharma
  • 4. Early Buddhism: Three Baskets of Dharma
  • 5. Post-Vedic Brahmanical Dharma
  • 6. Dharma over Time, I: Big Time Dharma
  • 7. Dharma over Time, II: Prophesies of Disaster
  • 8. Women's Dharma: Sastric Norms and Epic Narratives
  • 9. Two Dharma Biographies? Yudhisthira and Rama
  • 10. Draupadi and Sita: Dharmapatnis of Two Different Kinds
  • 11. Dharma and the Bhagavad Gita
  • 12. Bhakti and Dharma
  • 13. Asvaghoa's Buddhacarita: A Buddhist Reading of the Sanskrit Epics and Their Treatments of Dharma
  • 14. Bibliography