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33 produkter
Pañcatantra
The Book of India's Folk Wisdom
Häftad, 2009
178 kr
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The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on world literature, and no other collection of stories has become as popular in India itself. A …
Gṛhastha
The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture
Inbunden, 2019
1504 kr
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For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic …
Grhastha
The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture
E-bok, 2019
1357 kr
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For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic …
Grhastha
The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture
E-bok, 2019
1357 kr
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For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the married household, had no place for such a figure. Much has been written about the Indian ascetic …
Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law
A New History of Dharmasastra
Av Donald R. Davis, Patrick Olivelle
E-bok, 2017
2090 kr
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Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in DharmaÅ›Ästra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written …
Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law
A New History of Dharmasastra
Av Donald R. Davis, Patrick Olivelle
E-bok, 2017
2090 kr
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Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in DharmaÅ›Ästra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written …
The Samnyasa Upanisads
Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
Häftad, 1992
1547 kr
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The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institutions and of the historical changes they underwent during …
The Asrama System
The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution
Inbunden, 1993
3589 kr
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This is the first full-length study of the asrama system, a Hindu construct consisting of four legitimate ways of leading a religious life. Together with the varna (class) system, it forms one of the pillars of Hindu life. Olivelle traces its early history and how it gradually established …
The Early Upanisads
Annotated Text and Translation
Inbunden, 1999
2705 kr
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This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete Sanskrit text, as well as variant readings, scholarly emendations, and explanations of Olivelle's choices …
Manu's Code of Law
A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra
Inbunden, 2004
3131 kr
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Manu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed picture of ancient Indian life-covering everything from the constitution of the king's cabinet to the …
Between the Empires
Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE
Inbunden, 2006
2328 kr
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This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part I of the book looks at what can be construed from archeological evidence. Part II …
Asrama System
The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution
E-bok, 1993
2255 kr
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The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism-- ÄÅ›rama and varṇa -- ÄÅ›rama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first …
Samnyasa Upanisads
Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation
E-bok, 1992
1076 kr
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The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source for the study of the Hindu ascetical institutions and of the historical changes they underwent during …
The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law
A New History of Dharmaśāstra
Av Davis Olivelle, Patrick Olivelle m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
2994 kr
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Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmaśāstra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. Part One provides a concise overview of the literary genres in which Dharmasastra was written with …
Upanisads
Häftad, 2008
145 kr
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The Upanisads are the central scriptures of Hinduism. They represent some of the most important literary products in the history of Indian culture and religion, both because they played a critical role in the development of religious ideas in India and because they are our greatest source for the …
The Law Code of Manu
Häftad, 2009
155 kr
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'Manu was seated, when the great seers came up to him: "Please, Lord, tell us the Laws of all the social classes, as well as of those born in between..."'The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for two thousand years it still generates …
Manu's Code of Law
A Critical Edition and Translation of the M-anava-Dharmaś-astra
E-bok, 2004
1793 kr
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Manu''s Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed picture of ancient Indian life-covering everything from the constitution of the king''s cabinet to the …
A Dharma Reader
Classical Indian Law
Inbunden, 2016
1537 kr
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Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend …
A Dharma Reader
Classical Indian Law
Häftad, 2026
348 kr
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Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this consensus? Was it based on religious grounds or a transcendent source of knowledge? Did it depend …
Ashoka
Portrait of a Philosopher King
Inbunden, 2024
285 kr
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An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history “Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument of scholarship and sound judgment.”—Maxwell Carter, Wall Street Journal A New Yorker “Best Book of …
Law Code of Viṣṇu
A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra
Inbunden, 2010
498 kr
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The Law Code of Viṣṇu (Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra) is one of the latest of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century CE in Kashmir. Both because the Vaiṣṇava-Dharmaśāstra is the only Dharmaśāstra that can be geographically located and because it introduces some interesting and …
Treatise on Dharma
Av Yajnavalkya, Patrick Olivelle
Inbunden, 2019
305 kr
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A new English translation of the most influential legal text in medieval India.A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest example of the genre of dharmaśāstra—texts on religious, civil, and criminal law and the duties of rulers—that informed Indian life for a …
Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom
Inbunden, 2006
332 kr
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The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal protagonists. Many of these narratives have traveled across the world, and are known in the West as …
Language, Texts, and Society
Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion
Inbunden, 2011
1131 kr
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This collection brings together a series of Patrick Olivelle’s research papers, published over a period of about ten years, whose unifying theme is the search for hidden historical context and developments within words and texts. Words (and cultural histories represented by words) that scholars …
Ascetics and Brahmins
Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
Inbunden, 2011
1131 kr
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This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian …
Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law
Av Patrick Olivelle, David Ibbetson m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
2518 kr
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Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law
Av Patrick Olivelle, David Ibbetson m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
2518 kr
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The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law
Av Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
2210 kr
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The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical …
