10 Citations
Dharmarāja and Dhammarāja (I) Yudhiṣṭhira on anger, patience, forgiveness and peace (Mahābhārata 3,30)
- Political ScienceArgument: Biannual Philosophical Journal
- 2021
Yudhiṣṭhira, often referred to in the Mahābhārata (MBh) as Dharmarāja and created for an ideal ruler, is also portrayed as a hero full of doubts about his status and duties, sometimes even…
Religious plurality and individual authority in the Mahābhārata
- ArtReligious Individualisation
- 2019
The emergence of religious alternatives to Vedic ritualism in the centuries around the beginning of the Common Era was an important feature of the larger political and socio-economic transformations…
On a Characterisation of Freedom in Vedic Literature and the Mahābhārata
- Art
- 2017
: The compound kāmacāra is in Vedic literature connected to ideas of freedom which are different from the well-known ones often associated with immovability and changelessness as the characteristic…
Narrating Sāṃkhya Philosophy: Bhīṣma, Janaka and Pañcaśikha at Mahābhārata 12.211–12
- Art, Philosophy
- 2017
The account of the conversation between King Janaka and the Ṛṣi Pañcaśikha on the fate of the individual after death is one of the philosophical texts that are included in the Mokṣadharmaparvan of…
Philosophy in the Mahābhārata and the History of Indian Philosophy
- Philosophy
- 2017
The study of philosophical terms and doctrines in the Mahābhārata touches not only on important aspects of the contents, composition and the historical contexts of the epic, but also on the…
Escaping from Rama: Portraits of Indian women
- Art
- 2014
This study examines visual, post-colonial portraits of the Indian women of the Sanskrit epics, in order to show the sociocultural, historical-ideological roots of this aesthetic. After independence,…
“Following one's desire” (kāmacāra): On a Characterisation of Freedom in Vedic Literature and the Mahābhārata
- Philosophy
- 2014
Abstract The compound kāmacāra is in Vedic literature connected to ideas of freedom which are different from the well-known ones often associated with immovability and changelessness as the…