Introduction
"There is no science or art, no craft or skill, no yoga and karma that is outside the purview of drama" says Bharata in N?ţyaś?stra (I. 116; Gupta 1999: 23). This special issue of Nid?n: An International Journal for the Study of Hinduism looks at the Kali Yuga as something akin to a cosmol...
| Published in: | Nidān |
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2014
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| Summary: | "There is no science or art, no craft or skill, no yoga and karma that is outside the purview of drama" says Bharata in N?ţyaś?stra (I. 116; Gupta 1999: 23). This special issue of Nid?n: An International Journal for the Study of Hinduism looks at the Kali Yuga as something akin to a cosmological drama that unfolds in different fields of narrative possibilities and exhibits a "palpable tension between contingency and determinism" (Kloetzli and Hiltebeitel 2004: 582). The yugas, or world ages of Hindu traditions, progressively decrease in length and quality as they move from the Kŗta Yuga (the perfect age) to the Tret? Yuga, Dv?para Yuga, and Kali Yuga (the age of discord). |
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| ISSN: | 2414-8636 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Nidān
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.58125/nidan.2014.1 |