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Intro
List of illustrations
Figure 5.1 The descent of Rāma Jāmadagnya
Figure 5.2 Rāma Jāmadagnya at the intersection of cirañjīvins (horizontal in italics) and avatāras (vertical in bold)
Figure 5.3 The expected union of the three sons of Śaṃtanu and the three Kāśi princesses with their expected offspring
Figure 5.4 The epic's account of the descents of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu and Vidura
Figure 8.1 Moral tasting notes for the Udyogaparvan
Figure 8.2 Moral tasting notes for the Udyogaparvan, by embassy
Table 8.1 Five moral 'foundations' for humans
Table 8.2 Moral tasting notes of the council of Upaplavya
Table 8.3 Moral tasting notes of the second embassy
Table 8.4 Moral tasting notes of the third embassy
Table 8.5 Moral tasting notes of the fourth embassy
Table 14.1 Dhruva Narrative (Pathak 1999)
Plate 10.1 Puṣpaka as a flying palace. Rāma leaves Laṅkā on Puṣpaka. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, c. 1650. Himachal Pradesh, Pahari School. The San Diego Museum of Art
Plate 10.2 Puṣpaka as a swan. Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa fly back to Ayodhyā on Puṣpaka. From: Tulsi Ramayan, Tej Kumar Book Depot, date unknown
Plate 10.3 Garuḍa-Puṣpaka. Garuḍa (holding a snake in his claws and with lotus-like back feathers) carries a canopy sheltering Hanumān, Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa
Plate 10.4 The vimāna of the Virūpākṣa Temple, Hampi (Karnataka), c. fifteenth-sixteenth century
Plate 10.5 Keshava Temple, Somnathpur (Karnataka), c. 1268
Plate 10.6 The Puṣpaka temple
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Visions and revisions of Sanskrit narrative
1. Narrative argument and interlocutory frames in the Mahābhārata
2. Āstīka, black magic and apotropaic ritual: Peacemaking brahmins and the snake sacrifice in the Mahābhārata's Ādiparvan.
3. Transitions and transmissions in the Mahābhārata: Revisiting the Ugraśravas/Śaunaka frame dialogue
4. Battling inner conflicts: Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Saṃjaya in the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata
5. The Ambopākhyāna reconsidered: Reading Ambā's story as part of the Rāma Jāmadagnya myth cycle
6. Claiming the narrative: Subjectivity and intertextuality in the Ambopākhyāna
7. Bhīma: The shadow king
8. Some moral tasting notes on the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata
9. The Bhagavadgītā's determinism and world literature
10 .Mineral, vegetal, animal or divine? The flying palace Puṣpaka's manifold metamorphoses
11. From Ayodhyā to the Daṇḍaka: Rāma's journey in exile according to the Jain Rāmāyaṇas
12. Gembedded narratives: Jewelled peacetime tales of Rāma's exile and Rāvaṇa's domicile as alternative afterlife anticipations in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
13. Train stations, enterprising priests and the deadly blows of kuśa grass: Reading the purāṇas with a magic‑realist lens
14. Textures of purāṇic transmission: A contemporary vernacular exposition of a Sanskrit purāṇa
15. The Śivaśarmopākhyāna of the Padma Purāṇa as a bizarre compendium of epic and purāṇic tales of Pitṛbhakti
16. Same, same but different: The Tamil Kāñcippurāṇam and its Sanskrit source
17. The 'purāṇification' of the death of Kṛṣṇa
18. Lambs, lightning, nakedness and fire: Polythetic networks and literary elaborations of the Purūravas-Urvaśī narrative.
List of illustrations
Figure 5.1 The descent of Rāma Jāmadagnya
Figure 5.2 Rāma Jāmadagnya at the intersection of cirañjīvins (horizontal in italics) and avatāras (vertical in bold)
Figure 5.3 The expected union of the three sons of Śaṃtanu and the three Kāśi princesses with their expected offspring
Figure 5.4 The epic's account of the descents of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Pāṇḍu and Vidura
Figure 8.1 Moral tasting notes for the Udyogaparvan
Figure 8.2 Moral tasting notes for the Udyogaparvan, by embassy
Table 8.1 Five moral 'foundations' for humans
Table 8.2 Moral tasting notes of the council of Upaplavya
Table 8.3 Moral tasting notes of the second embassy
Table 8.4 Moral tasting notes of the third embassy
Table 8.5 Moral tasting notes of the fourth embassy
Table 14.1 Dhruva Narrative (Pathak 1999)
Plate 10.1 Puṣpaka as a flying palace. Rāma leaves Laṅkā on Puṣpaka. Opaque watercolour and gold on paper, c. 1650. Himachal Pradesh, Pahari School. The San Diego Museum of Art
Plate 10.2 Puṣpaka as a swan. Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa fly back to Ayodhyā on Puṣpaka. From: Tulsi Ramayan, Tej Kumar Book Depot, date unknown
Plate 10.3 Garuḍa-Puṣpaka. Garuḍa (holding a snake in his claws and with lotus-like back feathers) carries a canopy sheltering Hanumān, Rāma, Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa
Plate 10.4 The vimāna of the Virūpākṣa Temple, Hampi (Karnataka), c. fifteenth-sixteenth century
Plate 10.5 Keshava Temple, Somnathpur (Karnataka), c. 1268
Plate 10.6 The Puṣpaka temple
Foreword
Preface
Contributors
Introduction: Visions and revisions of Sanskrit narrative
1. Narrative argument and interlocutory frames in the Mahābhārata
2. Āstīka, black magic and apotropaic ritual: Peacemaking brahmins and the snake sacrifice in the Mahābhārata's Ādiparvan.
3. Transitions and transmissions in the Mahābhārata: Revisiting the Ugraśravas/Śaunaka frame dialogue
4. Battling inner conflicts: Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Saṃjaya in the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata
5. The Ambopākhyāna reconsidered: Reading Ambā's story as part of the Rāma Jāmadagnya myth cycle
6. Claiming the narrative: Subjectivity and intertextuality in the Ambopākhyāna
7. Bhīma: The shadow king
8. Some moral tasting notes on the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata
9. The Bhagavadgītā's determinism and world literature
10 .Mineral, vegetal, animal or divine? The flying palace Puṣpaka's manifold metamorphoses
11. From Ayodhyā to the Daṇḍaka: Rāma's journey in exile according to the Jain Rāmāyaṇas
12. Gembedded narratives: Jewelled peacetime tales of Rāma's exile and Rāvaṇa's domicile as alternative afterlife anticipations in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
13. Train stations, enterprising priests and the deadly blows of kuśa grass: Reading the purāṇas with a magic‑realist lens
14. Textures of purāṇic transmission: A contemporary vernacular exposition of a Sanskrit purāṇa
15. The Śivaśarmopākhyāna of the Padma Purāṇa as a bizarre compendium of epic and purāṇic tales of Pitṛbhakti
16. Same, same but different: The Tamil Kāñcippurāṇam and its Sanskrit source
17. The 'purāṇification' of the death of Kṛṣṇa
18. Lambs, lightning, nakedness and fire: Polythetic networks and literary elaborations of the Purūravas-Urvaśī narrative.