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Dharma Saṃkaṭa in the Mahābhārata: Existential Struggles and Real Repercussions
Journal of Religious Ethics, Volume 53, Issue 1, Page 72-88, March 2025.ABSTRACT Sometimes humans face perplexing situations in which we must make a choice. We are bound by multiple obligations, and each of them requires a different and incompatible course of action. One or more obligations must go unfulfilled. We might also anticipate that, by neglecting an obligation, serious, detrimental consequences will follow for us ...
Veena R. Howard, Diana Fritz Cates
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Visual Adaptation Of Wayang Characters In Teguh Santosa’s Comic Art
Mudra: Jurnal Seni Budaya, 2018 Wayang tradition with its Indian epics of Mahabharata and Ramayana adaptations is the Indonesian high culture acknowledged by UNESCO since 2003. Its stories and characterizations has become philosophical, moral ethics and character learning for the ...
Mohammad Isa Pramana Koesoemadinata
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, Issue 2, February 2025.Large‐scale urbanization and the rural‐to‐urban influx in Nepal have increased human–wildlife conflicts, particularly in the Kathmandu Valley. Using DNA metabarcoding and geospatial analysis, we studied the feeding ecology of leopards and leopard cats, finding that leopards rely heavily on domestic animals in human‐dominated areas, whereas leopard cats
Prajwol Manandhar +13 more
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What Weber Got Right About Brahmins—Testing His Theories About South Asian Caste Hierarchies
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, Volume 61, Issue 2, Spring 2025.ABSTRACT The following article is an assessment of Max Weber's depiction of Brahmins and ascetics in South Asia. Using contemporary historical analyses, the article has attempted to demonstrate the validity of Weber's analyses in his seminal treatise on South Asian society, “The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism” that he had ...
Satanik Pal
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Translation of the Mahābhārata and Cognitive Linguistics
Folia OrientaliaThis article analyses the battle descriptions in the Mahābhārata from the perspective of cognitive linguistics, focusing on how the epic’s oral character shapes its linguistic and narrative structure. Drawing on the author’s experience as a translator of
Joanna Jurewicz
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Natural polymers for emerging technological applications: cellulose, lignin, shellac and silk
Polymer International, Volume 74, Issue 2, Page 71-86, February 2025.Utilization of natural polymers such as cellulose, lignin, shellac and silk in emerging technological applications exemplified in this short review demonstrates that these biopolymers possess optimum characteristics that can assist the development of high‐performance, eco‐friendly and sustainable products.
Mihai Irimia‐Vladu +1 more
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A hundred grains of rice: regional Mahābhārata stories in performance
The South Asianist, 2017 This article explores the subject of regional folk stories found in various vernacular expressions of the Mahābhārata. In particular, the non-canonical stories of Śaśirekha and Śakuni as found in several Telugu versions of the Mahābhārata story are taken
Srinivas Reddy
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Speaking the Forbidden: mlecchavāc in Mahābhārata 1.135
RhesisIn Indian xenology, the term mleccha refers to an individual who does not conform to the social and linguistic norms of the Āryas. Studies have analysed its multiple uses, including its role in toponymy, religious taboos, and ethnicity.
Diletta Falqui
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Isteni hősök, hős istenek a „Mahábhárata” névadásában
Névtani Értesítő, 2004 -
Hajnalka Szamos
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Ethos, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 480-499, December 2024.Abstract We use ethnographic observations, interviews, and surveys to illuminate video game‐related gambling in India, where players use as currency decorative in‐game weapon covers referred to as skins. We focus on gaming and gambling related to virtual items acquired in the popular shooter game Counter‐Strike: Global Offensive, and our study unfolds ...
Jeffrey G. Snodgrass +3 more
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