Full of God: Ashtavakra and Ideas of Justice in Hindu Texts
The paper examines how ideas about disability, sexuality, gender, desire and aversion, have circulated in Hindu texts through the figure of the disabled sage Ashtavakra. In the Mahabharata, Ashtavakra learns from a woman teacher that no one is immune to desire. The Ashtavakra Gita explicitly states...
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Equinox
2009
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2009, Volume: 3, Issue: 2, Pages: 167-181 |
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Disability
B Sexuality B Comparative Religion B Mahabharata B Hinduism B Gender |
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