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From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra
- Making of a Historical Tradition
Engelsk Hardback
From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra
- Making of a Historical Tradition
Engelsk Hardback

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Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the various ways of memorising and representing the past, even if those ways do not necessarily correspond to the methodology of the Occidental discipline called ''History''. Ancient India had several historical traditions, and the book focuses on one of them, the itihasa. It also shows how the Mahabharata is the best illustration of this tradition, and how a historical study of the contents of the text, with comparison with and corroboration from other contemporary sources and traditions, may help us restore the text in its original context in the bardic historical tradition about the Later Vedic Kurus. Is the Mahabharata then an authentic history? This book does not claim so. However, it shows how the text had originated as a critical reflection on a great period of transition, how it dealt with the conflicting philosophies of the transitional period, how it propounded its thesis by creating new kinds of heroes such as Yudhisthira and Krsna, and how the text was reworked when it was canonized by the brahmanas
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
576
ISBN-13:
9780190130695
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0190130695
Udg. Dato:
18 jan 2022
Længde:
33mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
OUP India
Oplagsdato:
18 jan 2022
Forfatter(e):
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