The Sanskrit Mahabharata is one of the greatest works of world
literature and pivotal for the understanding of both Hindu
traditions and wider society in ancient, medieval and modern South
Asia. This book presents a new synthesis of philological,
anthropological and cognitive-linguistic method and theory in
relation to the study of narrative text by focusing on the form and
function of the Mahabharata in the context of early South Asia.
Arguing that the combination of structural and thematic features
that have helped to establish the enduring cultural centrality of
religious narrative in South Asia was first outlined in the text,
the book highlights the Mahabharata's complex orientation to the
cosmic, social and textual past. The book shows the extent to which
narrative is integral to human social life, and more generally the
creation and maintenance of religious ideologies. It highlights the
contexts of origin and transmission and the cultural function of
the Mahabharata in first millennium South Asia and, by extension,
in medieval and modern South Asiaby drawing on both textual and
epigraphic sources. The book draws attention to what is culturally
specific about the origination and transmission of early South
Asian narrative and what can be used to enrich our orientation to
narrative in human social life more globally.
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