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The Monkeys and the Magical Cave (Rāmāyaṇa IV 49-52)
AOQU, 2021 According to classical Indian aesthetic theory, adbhuta, the ‘marvellous’, is one of the nine canonical rasas, ‘moods’, that can be aroused in the audience by a theatrical or literary work, and Sanskrit epics largely resonate with adbhuta features.
Cinzia Pieruccini
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The Mahābhārata and Greco-Roman sources: mapping out the destruction plan [PDF]
, 2015 In previous publications (The Mahābhārata and Greek Mythology, New Delhi, 2014, for example) I have argued that the Mahābhārata poets worked from a Greco-Roman “repertory” or “archive” in which the Iliad’s and the Greek Epic Cycle’s (the Cypria in ...
Wulff-Alonso, Fernando
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History and Theory, Volume 64, Issue 2, Page 201-228, June 2025.ABSTRACT The eighteenth‐century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectual culture of the Mughal Empire and created by individuals who explicitly sought to inform and influence their new colonial patrons.
Abhishek Kaicker
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Climate Change, Floods, and Community Resilience: A Study of the Kamala River Basin, Nepal
Journal of Flood Risk Management, Volume 18, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT Climate change is one of the biggest threats humanity is facing in the 21st century. Nepal, being a low‐income country located on the lap of the Himalayas, is experiencing a wide range of impacts from changing climate and climate‐induced disasters.
Chandra Lal Pandey
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Jurnal Ilmu Sosial dan Humaniora, 2017 This paper examined an adaptation study of the longest Sanskrit epic, Mahabharata, from a novel by C. Rajagopalachari to comics by R. A. Kosasih and an online game named Kurukshetra by 7Seas Technologies Ltd.
Kriswanda Krishnapatria
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Buddha, Bhakti, and Brahman: Sebastian Kappen S.J.’s Dialogue with Indian Religions [PDF]
, 2017 This article analyzes how Sebastian Kappen S.J. (1924-1993), a social thinker and one of the most radical Indian liberation theologians, related to Indian religions.
Goddeeris, Idesbald +1 more
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Studia Mythologica Slavica, 2018 A comparison of a group of Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian legends implying a thunderous character, with a passage from the Mahābhārata, an ancient Indian epos, allows us to reconstruct a fragment of the myth of the Baltic and Slavic thunderstorm god.
Patrice Lajoye
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, Volume 24, Issue 3, Page 1300-1326, May 2025.ABSTRACT Despite extensive research on the influence of religion on pro‐environmental behavior, little attention has been paid to the role of religious epics—that is, narratives that embody the core beliefs and moral values of religious traditions—as a mechanism for promoting such behavior.
Manish Das +4 more
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Competitiveness in Sacred Learning
Cracow Indological StudiesThe current notion of the Vrātyas aggressivity seems to be mainly based on certain Vedic texts that record a biased account of their history. It is usually assumed that relevant passages refer to the aggression displayed by the Vrātyas during verbal ...
Diletta Falqui
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A Deconstruction of the Mahabharata: When Draupadi Writes Back
Miscelánea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 2018 From a post-colonial and gender perspective I examine R.K. Narayan’s The Mahabharata (1978), Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s The Palace of Illusions (2008) and Mahasweta Devi’s “Draupadi” (1997), in order to analyze how they have rewritten the ancient myth
Ana García-Arroyo
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