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Raja Yudhisthira : Kingship in Epic Mahabharata /

In Raja Yudhisthira, Kevin McGrath brings his comprehensive literary, ethnographic, and analytical knowledge of the epic Mahabharata to bear on the representation of kingship in the poem. He shows how the preliterate Great Bharata song depicts both archaic and classical models of kingly and premonet...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: McGrath, Kevin, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1.The Beginnings
  • i.Early Kingship
  • ii.The Associates
  • iii.Duality
  • iv.Magadha
  • v.The Dharmaraja
  • vi.The Text
  • vii.Terms
  • 2.Kingship
  • i.Early Kings
  • ii.The Associates
  • iii.Duality
  • iv.Magadha
  • v.The Dharmaraja
  • 1.The Rajasuya Sequence
  • 2.War as Royal Rite
  • 3.The Asvamedha
  • 3.Ideals of Kingship
  • i.Archaic Ideals
  • ii.Installation
  • iii.Classical Ideals
  • 4.The End.