Series |
South Asia research South Asia research (New York, N.Y.) ^A446366
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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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
LCCN | 2010030676 |
ISBN | 9780195394238 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
ISBN | 0195394232 (hardcover : alk. paper) |