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Rethinking India's oral and classical epics : Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits

Title
Rethinking India's oral and classical epics : Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits / Alf Hiltebeitel.
Author
Hiltebeitel, Alf.
Publication
Chicago, Il. : University of Chicago Press, c1999.

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Description
xiv, 560 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-542) and index.
Contents
Introduction -- Oral epics -- The elder brothers and the heroes of Palnāḍu -- The epic of Pābūjī -- Opening Ālhā -- The nine-lākh chain -- The story of Kṛṣṇāṃśa -- Kurukṣetra II -- Time-routes through the Kṛṣṇāṃśacarita -- Their name is legion -- The ballad of Rāja Desing -- Barbarīka, Aravāṉ, Kūttāṇṭavar: furthuring the case of the severed head -- The myth of the Agnivaṃśa -- Draupadī becomes Belā, Belā becomes Satī.
Call Number
*OLY 99-4039
ISBN
  • 0226340503 (alk. paper)
  • 0226340511 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
98008762
OCLC
39347044
Author
Hiltebeitel, Alf.
Title
Rethinking India's oral and classical epics : Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits / Alf Hiltebeitel.
Imprint
Chicago, Il. : University of Chicago Press, c1999.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-542) and index.
Research Call Number
*OLY 99-4039
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