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Dharma - Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative (Hardcover)
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Dharma - Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative (Hardcover)
Series: South Asia Research
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Between 300 BCE and 200 CE, concepts and practices of dharma
attained literary prominence throughout India. Both Buddhist and
Brahmanical authors sought to clarify and classify their central
concerns, and dharma proved a means of thinking through and
articulating those concerns.
Alf Hiltebeitel shows the different ways in which dharma was
interpreted during that formative period: from the grand cosmic
chronometries of kalpas and yugas to narratives about divine plans,
gendered nuances of genealogical time, royal biography (even
autobiography, in the case of the emperor Asoka), and guidelines
for daily life, including meditation. He reveals the vital role
dharma has played across political, religious, legal, literary,
ethical, and philosophical domains and discourses about what holds
life together. Through dharma, these traditions have articulated
their distinct visions of the good and well-rewarded life.
This insightful study explores the diverse and changing
significance of dharma in classical India in nine major dharma
texts, as well some shorter ones. Dharma proves to be a term by
which to make a fresh cut through these texts, and to reconsider
their own chronology, their import, and their relation to each
other.
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