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

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Main Author: Hiltebeitel, Alf
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, c2011.
Series:South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Aśoka Maurya
  • A Vedic history of dharma
  • Early Buddhism: three baskets of dharma
  • Post-Vedic Brahmanical dharma
  • Dharma over time, I: big time dharma
  • Dharma over time, II: prophesies of disaster
  • Women's dharma: Śāstric norms and epic narratives
  • Two dharma biographies? Rāma and Yudhiṣṭhira
  • Draupadī and Sītā: dharmapatnīs of two different kinds
  • Dharma and the Bhagavad Gītā
  • Dharma and bhakti
  • Aśvaghoṣa's Buddhacarita: a Buddhist reading of the Sanskrit epics and their treatments of dharma.