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Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative
Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors soug...
A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. ...
This introductory work proposes a fresh take on the ancient Indian concept dharma. By unfolding how, even in its developments as "law" and custom, dha...
Krsna in the Mahabharata
This book is a study of India's great epic, the Mahabharata, against the background of Indo-European myth, epic and ritual. It builds upon the pioneer...
Draupadi Among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. R...
Though Freud never overtly refers to the Mahthe companion volume to Freud's India, Alf Hiltebeitel offers what he calls a "pointillist introduction" t...
Mah?bh?rata Ethnographies - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel
Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mah?bh?rata, the R?m?ya?a, and the south Indian cults of Draupad? and K?tt???avar along with n...
Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism
The Hindu sacred order is guarded by the very gods who violate it and the demons who oppose it. This book is a who's who of such transgressive figures...
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little-known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic...
Mythologies: from Gingee to Kurukṣetra
This is the first volume of a projected three-volume work on the little known South Indian folk cult of the goddess Draupadi and on the classical epic...
Studies on the Mahābhārata - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel
The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa
In World of Wonders, Alf Hiltebeitel addresses the Mahabharata and its supplement, the Harivamsa, as a single literary composition. Looking at the wor...
In Indian mythological texts like the Mahābhārata and Rāmāyaṇa, there are recurrent tales about gleaners. The practice of "gleaning" in India ha...
Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose
The sharp contrast between cultures with a monotheistic paternal deity and those with pluralistic maternal deities is a theme of abiding interest in r...
The Politics of South Asian Goddesses
Not A Book About A Single Goddess Or Even About A Variety Of South Asian Goddesses, This Volume Raises Questions About Images Of Deities As Symbols An...
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Studies on the Mahābhārata
The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahābhārata and the Harivaṃśa
"This is the first book in over a thousand years to approach the Mahābhārata and the Harivaṃśa via rasa theory. It argues that both texts put adb...