LEADER 04769oam 2200649I 450 001 9910461604503321 005 20211111134524.0 010 $a1-283-45994-9 010 $a9786613459947 010 $a1-136-64589-6 010 $a0-203-80512-7 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203805121 035 $a(CKB)2670000000148672 035 $a(EBL)958171 035 $a(OCoLC)798532081 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000678940 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11414986 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678940 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10737721 035 $a(PQKB)10405305 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC958171 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL958171 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10535100 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL345994 035 $a(OCoLC)782917833 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000148672 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aReligion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia $epast and place in the Sanskrit Mahabharata /$fJames Hegarty 210 1$aAbingdon, Oxon :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (241 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge Hindu studies series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-55863-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-216) and index. 327 $aReligion, Narrative and Public Imagination in South Asia Past and place in the Sanskrit Maha?bha?rata; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Sanskrit pronunciation guide; Abbreviations; 1 Introduction; Visiting the Maha?bha?rata; A study of the story to end all stories; Public imagination and the Mahabharata; The Maha?bha?rata and the contrary mongoose; What the Maha?bha?rata does; The riddle of style and purpose: narrative, cognition and culture; Past, place and narrative as theory; Introducing the Maha?bha?rata; The critical text of the Maha?bha?rata; Situating the Maha?bha?rata 327 $aThe shape of this bookA note on the translations; 2 Ritual and textual structure in the Maha?bha?rata; Introductory remarks; Ritual structure and the Maha?bha?rata; The ritual of listening: book 18 of the Maha?bha?rata and its phalas?ruti; Narrative frames and reception in the Maha?bha?rata; Narratives in dialogue: the dicing sequence and the Nalopakhyana; S?akuntala and the modernity of the Maha?bha?rata; Yudhisthira's peace: the final books of the Maha?bha?rata; The dicing sequence of the Maha?bha?rata; Concluding remarks; 3 Constructing a significant past; Introductory remarks; Churning the Maha?bha?rata 327 $aA brief note on demotic dharma and the Maha?bha?rataExtending and consolidating the Vedic past; The S?aunaka 'brand'; Vedish not Vedic; The situational exploration of the past: a case study in the tragic history of Karna; From textual to personal authority: exploring the past the Buddhist way; Concluding remarks; 4 Constructing significant places; Introductory remarks; The apotheosis of the Sabha; The world on the eve of battle; Pilgrimage and power in the Maha?bha?rata; Concluding remarks; 5 The Maha?bha?rata in early South Asia; Introductory remarks; The Maha?bha?rata and epigraphy 327 $aThe Maha?bha?rata and literary cultureThe 'presence' of the Maha?bha?rata in early medieval Kas?mir; Concluding remarks; 6 Conclusions : Towards an old approach to philology; 7 Epilogue : The construction of the signifi cant past in the Hindi televisual Maha?bha?rat; Appendices; 1. A summary of the books of the Mahabharata; 2. A brief timeline for early South Asia; Bibliography of works cited; Index 330 $aThe Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological, anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia.Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features that have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of religious narrative 410 0$aRoutledgeCurzon Hindu studies series. 606 $aHinduism in literature 607 $aSouth Asia 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHinduism in literature. 676 $a294.5/923046 700 $aHegarty$b James.$4aut$0884979 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910461604503321 996 $aReligion, narrative and public imagination in South Asia$91975942 997 $aUNINA