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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: dharma of justice in the Sanskrit epics
    sub title: debates on gender, varna, and species
  name:
    name part: Vanita, Ruth
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: "This book examines how characters in the Mahabharata and the Ramayana debate questions of justice. The epics depict discrimination based on social categories such as gender, varṇa, species, age, and disability, and important characters often support discrimination. But the epics also criticize oppression in two ways—first, philosophically, through debates, and second, practically, through characters whose actions demonstrate that discrimination is wrong. Many characters in the epics (including men and women from all varṇas and those later considered outside the varṇa system) repeatedly proclaim the principle of sameness (samatva). All bodies are made of the same matter and are vulnerable, all consciousnesses are essentially the same, and all categories constantly change, and are ultimately unreal. This book considers debates about friendship and the family, about the meaning or non-meaning of varna and gender, about male–female interactions and the questions of consent, sex-change, gender-crossing, disability, and masculinities. The dharmas of singleness, marriage, friendship, parenting, and rulership, especially in relation to violence and non-violence, are explored, and Yudhishthira's idea of complete non-violence is critiqued as impossible and undesirable. The book argues that kindness to animals is at the heart of the epics' idea of universal dharma. Non-cruelty to animals is a dharma available to all humans, regardless of status. Approaching the epics as bhakti texts, the book concludes with an extended study of how bhakta poets of all persuasions, from Kabir and Raidas to Jnaneshwara, Rahim, and Tulsidas, draw their philosophical frameworks and ideas from the epics"--Publisher's description.
  note: Ruth Vanita.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Mahābhārata
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Vālmīki
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Mahābhārata
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Mahābhārata
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Rāmāyaṇa (Vālmīki)
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Sanskrit
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Dharma
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Justice in literature
  subject:
    topic: Poésie épique sanscrite
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Dharma
    topic: Dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Justice dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Epic poetry, Sanskrit
  subject:
    topic: Justice in literature
  classification: PK2919 .V36 2022
  classification: 891/.2103209
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    title info:
      title: Dharma of justice in the Sanskrit epics
    name:
      name part: Vanita, Ruth.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1301899645
  identifier: 0191953148
  identifier: 9780191953149
  identifier: 9780192859822
  identifier: 9780192676016
  identifier: 0192676016
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210929
    record change date: 20260318163333.7
    record identifier: in00005696188
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng