Religion, Epic and Cultural Memory: The Construction of the Significant Past in Sanskrit and Hindi Mahābhāratas
This paper reflects a deep interest in the way in which social groups put together ideas of their shared past. In South Asia, an enduring resource for the fashioning of ideas of the significant past has been the religious epic, the Mahabharata. From at least the Guptan era (329-650 C. E.) to present...
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Diagonal-Verlag
2012
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Zeitschrift für Religionswissenschaft
Year: 2007, Volume: 15, Issue: 2, Pages: 179-199 |
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