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Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History celebrates the distinguished career of the American Indologist Robert P. Goldman. The essays on Sanskrit literary history, which range from the danastuti in the Rgveda (Romila Thapar) to the transformation of literary theory in ninth century Kashmir (Sheldon Pollock) to the practice of philology in seventeenth-century Varanasi (Christopher Minkowski), reflect the wide range of interests of Professor Goldman himself, and the wide influence he has exerted on the field. Eight of the essays (by such leading scholars as Greg Bailey, John Brokington, James Fitzgerald, luis Gonzalez-Reimann, Phyllis Granoff, Alf Hiltebeitel, Adheesh Sathaye, and Sally Sutherland Goldman), concentrate on the epics and Puranas, and as an ensemble make for essential reading on the genre of Sanskrit literature to which Goldman, as editor-in-chief of the Ramayana Translation Project, has devoted the greater part of his career.
Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Vidyasagarah Suvarnapurusah: A Brief Survey of Robert P. Goldman's Scholarship Deven M. Patel ix
Hermeneutical Glosses on Scholarly Work on the Mahabheirata and the Puranas Greg Bailey 1
Is the Script Relevant? Further Evidence from a Nevari-script Riimayana Manuscript John Brockington 17
The Boy 'Slowpoke' as Deep Thinker: In Defense of 'Straying' Wives against Father's Uxoricidal Rage James L. Fitzgerald 31
Time in the Mahabharata and the Time of the Mahabharata Luis Gonailez-Reimann 61
Karma, Curse, or Divine Illusion: The Destruction of the Buddha's Clan and the Slaughter of the Yadavas Phyllis Granoff 75
Mapping Bhakti through Friendship in the Sanskrit Epics Alf Hiltebeitel 91
I'll Wash Out Your Mouth With My Boot: A Guide to Philological Argument in Mughal-era Banaras Christopher Minkowski 117
What was Bhatta Nayaka Saying? The Hermeneutical Transformation of Indian Aesthetics Sheldon Pollock 143
The Other Kind of Brahman: Rama Jamadagnya and the Psychosocial Construction of Brahman Power in the Mahabharata Adheesh Sathaye 185
Illusory Evidence: The Construction of Maya in Valmiki's Riimayana Sally J. Sutherland Goldman 209
The Dana-stuti Hymns of the Rgveda Romila Thapar 235
Memories of Bob Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson 255
List of Contributors 263
