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

Author/creator Hiltebeitel, Alf
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Oxford University Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxvii, 747 pages ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series South Asia research
South Asia research (New York, N.Y.) ^A446366
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010030676
ISBN9780195394238 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0195394232 (hardcover : alk. paper)

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