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Nonviolence in the Mahabharata - Siva's Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra (Paperback)
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Nonviolence in the Mahabharata - Siva's Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Hindu Studies Series
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In Indian mythological texts like the Mahabharata and Ramayana,
there are recurrent tales about gleaners. The practice of
"gleaning" in India had more to do with the house-less forest life
than with residential village or urban life or with gathering
residual post-harvest grains from cultivated fields. Gleaning can
be seen a metaphor for the Mahabharata poets' art: an art that
could have included their manner of gleaning what they made the
leftovers (what they found useful) from many preexistent texts into
Vyasa's "entire thought"-including oral texts and possibly written
ones, such as philosophical debates and stories. This book explores
the notion of non-violence in the epic Mahabharata. In examining
gleaning as an ecological and spiritual philosophy nurtured as much
by hospitality codes as by eating practices, the author analyses
the merits and limitations of the 9th century Kashmiri aesthetician
Anandavardhana that the dominant aesthetic sentiment or rasa of the
Mahabharata is shanta (peace). Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent reading
of the Mahabharata via the Bhagavad Gita are also studied. This
book by one of the leaders in Mahabharata studies is of interest to
scholars of South Asian Literary Studies, Religious Studies as well
as Peace Studies, South Asian Anthropology and History.
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