Historicity of the Mahabharata
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Detail Of Historicity of the Mahabharata
ISBN | 9788173054587 |
Pages | 117 |
Language: | English |
Product Code: | 1 |
Size(in cm): | 10.0 inch x 7.0 inch cm |
Weight(in grams): | 610(approx) |
Description:
Contents
Preface vi
Acknowledgements vii
List of Illustrations x
1 Introducing the Mahabharata Text 1
A Introductory 1
B The Critical Edition of the Mahabharata 5
2 Impact of the Mahabharata on South Indian Literature 9
A Tamil Nadu 10
B Karnataka 13
3 Impact of the Mahabharata on Art in India and Abroad 15
A Draupadi's svayamvara 16
B Draupadi's Humiliation 20
C The Pandavas in Exile 23
D Both Duryodhana and Arjuna Approach Krishna for support 24
E The War Begins 28
F Lord Krisna's Visvarupa 34
G Bhisma Lies on a Bed of Arrows 37
H Abhimanyu Caught in the Chakravyuha 42
I Janamejaya's sarpa-yajna (Snake-sacrifice) 42
4 Impact on Coins and Inscriptions 43
A Coin of Agathocles 43
B Heliodorus Pillar Inscription 44
C Nasik Inscription of vasisthiputra Pulumavi 44
D Khoh Copperplate Grant of Maharaja Sarcanatha 45
E Sultanpur Copperplate Inscription 45
F Perjjarangi Grant of Ganga Rajamalla I 46
G A 19th -century Inscription too 46
H An Inscription from Afar-Laos 46
5 Problem of the History of the Mahabharata: 47
A The 'why' of the Problem 47
B The 'How' of the Solution 50
6 Historicity of the Mahabharata: Evidence of Non-Epic Texts 51
A Introductory 51
B The Atharvaveda Samhita 52
C The Aitareya Brahmana 52
D The Brihadaranuaka Upanishad 53
E Panini's Astadhyayi 55
F Kautlya's Arthasastra 55
7 Evidence of Excavations and Explorations at the Mahabharata Sites 59
A Complicated Nature of the Problem 59
B An Archaeologist Faces the Challenge 60
C Excavations at Hastinapura, 1950-52 62
D Chronological Horizons of the Various Periods at Hastinapura 80
E The Hastinapura Archaeological Evidence cis-a vis the Mahabharata 82
F The Date of the Mahabharata War on the Basis of Archaeological -cum-literary Evidence 84
G Other Dates Examined 86
8 Don’t throw the Baby out with the Bath Water 89
Appendix I: From Pariksit to Udayana 93
Appendix II: Ballads have a field day even today 95
Bibliography 99
Index 101
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