Lifting Brides/Lifting Enemies: Male Embraces in the Mahabharata’s Adiparvan and Virataparvan
The paper examines four lifting scenes in the Mahabharata: (1) Bhisma lifting Amba, Ambika and Ambalika (1.96), (2) Arjuna lifting Subhadra (1.212), (3) Susarman lifting Virata / Bhima lifting Susarman (4.32), and (4) Arjuna lifting Uttara (4.36). Its main claim is that the bride abductions provide...
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Language: | English |
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Equinox
2022
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Religions of South Asia
Year: 2022, Volume: 16, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 184-200 |
Further subjects: | B
enemy abductions
B bride abductions B Mahābhārata B Masculinities |
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