TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hiltebeitel,Alf
TI  - Rethinking India's oral and classical epics: Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits 
SN  - 9780226340555 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BL1138.4.D72 H57 1999eb
U1  - 294.5/923046 22
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Mahābhārata
KW  - History
KW  - Mahabharata
KW  - Historia
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Draupadī (Hindu mythology)
KW  - Rajput (Indic people)
KW  - Religious life
KW  - Dalits
KW  - India
KW  - Religion
KW  - Hinduism
KW  - Relations
KW  - Islam
KW  - Rajputs
KW  - Vida religiosa
KW  - Intocables
KW  - Religión
KW  - Relaciones
KW  - Hinduismo
KW  - Draupadī (Mythologie hindoue)
KW  - Rājput (Peuple de l'Inde)
KW  - Vie religieuse
KW  - Intouchables
KW  - Inde
KW  - Hindouisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Sacred Writings
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Mondelinge literatuur
KW  - gtt
KW  - Draupadī
KW  - ფოლკლორი
KW  - ზეპირი და კლასიკური ეპიკური ნაწარმოებები - ინდოეთი
KW  - რელიგია - ინდუიზმი - წმინდა წიგნები
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-542) and index; Oral epics -- The elder brothers and the heroes of Palnāḍu -- The epic of Pābūjī -- Opening Ālhā -- The nine-lākh chain -- The story of Kṛṣṇāṃśa -- Kurukṣetra II -- Time-routes through the Kṛṣṇāṃśacarita -- Their name is legion -- The ballad of Rāja Desing -- Barbarīka, Aravān̲, Kūttāṇṭavar: furthuring the case of the severed head -- The myth of the Agnivaṃśa -- Draupadī becomes Belā, Belā becomes Satī
N2  - Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics--the Mahabharata and the Ramayana--continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Drau
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