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Pages: 584
Authors: Alf Hiltebeitel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-05 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking
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Authors: Alf Hiltebeitel
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-02-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking
Rethinking the Mahabharata
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Authors: Alf Hiltebeitel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001-10-30 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intric
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The Cult of Draupadī
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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, the Maha