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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 3 November 2011
- ISBN 9780195394238
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages768 pages
- Size 160x239x53 mm
- Weight 1117 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Between 300 and 200 BCE, the concept and practice of dharma attained prominence across India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central concerns, and dharma proved a means of thinking through and articulating those concerns. Alf Hiltebeitel shows the different ways in which dharma is interpreted over time. His insightful study explores the diverse and changing signifcance of dharma in classical India in nine major dharma texts, as well as two pieces of writing that have traditionally been considered minor.
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Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central concerns, and dharma proved a means of thinking through and articulating those concerns.
Alf Hiltebeitel shows the different ways in which dharma was interpreted during that formative period: from the grand cosmic chronometries of kalpas and yugas to narratives about divine plans, gendered nuances of genealogical time, royal biography (even autobiography, in the case of the emperor Asoka), and guidelines for daily life, including meditation. He reveals the vital role dharma has played across political, religious, legal, literary, ethical, and philosophical domains and discourses about what holds life together. Through dharma, these traditions have articulated their distinct visions of the good and well-rewarded life.
This insightful study explores the diverse and changing significance of dharma in classical India in nine major dharma texts, as well some shorter ones. Dharma proves to be a term by which to make a fresh cut through these texts, and to reconsider their own chronology, their import, and their relation to each other.
This rich book must become essential reading for everyone with an interest in Indic religion, history, and culture.
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
