The starting point for this work is that myths are made and remade
- on a variety of topics and in widely differing contexts - in a
vast continuum stretching from the earliest periods of historical
time to the present day. Each study in the collection focuses on
one particular point in this continuum: "a stretch of narrative" in
the Odyssey and the Mahabharata that suggests a common
Proto-Indo-European origin (Allen); the tellings and re-tellings of
the seduction of Ahalya by the god Indra in early Sanskrit texts
(Soehnen-Thieme); the development of the Parasurama figure and his
increasingly strange relationship to mythical time (Thomas). Other
topics covered include: some of the mythologies surrounding
menstruation and the way each fits the discourse that frames it
(Leslie); Jiva Gosvamin's controversial rewriting of the myth of
the Krsna and the gopis (Brzezinski); the evolving hagiographies of
the untouchable saint Raidas (Friedlander); the ideal of the
sannyasi in the progressive construction of an "alternative
masculinity" in the nationalist discourse of 19th-century Bengal
(Chowdhury-Sengupta). Finally the deliberate merging of the image
of the European orientalist with the w
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