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The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics - Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species (Hardcover)
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The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics - Debates on Gender, Varna, and Species (Hardcover)
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This book shows that many characters in the Sanskrit epics - men
and women of all varnas and mixed-varna - discuss and criticize
discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and
disability. On the basis of philosophy, logic and devotion, these
characters argue that such categories are ever-changing, mixed and
ultimately unreal therefore humans should be judged on the basis of
their actions, not birth. The book explores the dharmas of
singleness, friendship, marriage, parenting, and ruling. Bhakta
poets such as Kabir, Tulsidas, Rahim and Raidas drew on ideas and
characters from the epics to present a vision of oneness. Justice
is indivisible, all bodies are made of the same matter, all beings
suffer, and all consciousnesses are akin. This book makes the
radical argument that in the epics, kindness to animals, the dharma
available to all, is inseparable from all other forms of dharma.
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