Sohini Sarah Pillai (Assistant Professor of Religion and Director o

Krishna's Mahabharatas

Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative

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Produktbeschreibung

Krishna's Mahabharatas: Devotional Retellings of an Epic Narrative is a comprehensive study of premodern regional Mahabharata retellings. This book argues that Vaishnavas (devotees of the Hindu god Vishnu and his various forms) throughout South Asia turned this epic about an apocalyptic, bloody war into works of ardent bhakti or

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Produktdetails

• AAR Religion in Translation
• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780197753552
• ISBN-10: 0197753558
• Artikelnr.: 69721055

Autorenporträt

Sohini Sarah Pillai is Assistant Professor of Religion and Director of Film and Media Studies at Kalamazoo College. Her co-edited volume (with Nell Shapiro Hawley), Many Mahabharatas, was published in 2021 by State University of New York Press.

Inhaltsangabe

* CONTENTS
* Acknowledgments
* Note on Terms and Transliteration
* Introduction
* Part I
* 1. Setting the Scene: Interpretations of Krishna in the Sanskrit
Mahabharata
* 2. Many (Krishna-Centric) Mahabharatas: An Overview of Premodern
Regional Retellings
* Part II
* 3. Commencing and Concluding the Carita of Krishna: The First and
Final Books of Villi's Paratam and Chauhan's Mahabharat
* 4. Prayers and Protection: Draupadi's Disrobing and the Book of
Effort in Villi's Paratam and Chauhan's Mahabharat
* Part III
* 5. Beginning with Bhakti: Invocations and the Shrivaishnava Tradition
in Villi's Paratam
* 6. Remembering Rama: The Role of Tulsidas's Ramayanas in Chauhan's
Mahabharat
* Conclusion
* Appendix: Glossary of Characters
* Bibliography
* Index