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- First Page
- Preliminary pages
- List of illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- Contributors
- Introduction: Visions and revisions of Sanskrit narrative
- 1. Narrative argument and interlocutory frames in the Mahābhārata
- 2. Āstīka, black magic and apotropaic ritual: Peacemaking brahmins and the snake sacrifice in the Mahābhārata’s Ādiparvan
- 3. Transitions and transmissions in the Mahābhārata: Revisiting the Ugraśravas/Śaunaka frame dialogue
- 4. Battling inner conflicts: Dhṛtarāṣṭra and Saṃjaya in the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata
- 5. The Ambopākhyāna reconsidered: Reading Ambā’s story as part of the Rāma Jāmadagnya myth cycle
- 6. Claiming the narrative: Subjectivity and intertextuality in the Ambopākhyāna
- 7. Bhīma: The shadow king
- 8. Some moral tasting notes on the Udyogaparvan of the Mahābhārata
- 9. The Bhagavadgītā’s determinism and world literature
- 10. Mineral, vegetal, animal or divine? The flying palace Puṣpaka’s manifold metamorphoses
- 11. From Ayodhyā to the Daṇḍaka: Rāma’s journey in exile according to the Jain Rāmāyaṇas
- 12. Gembedded narratives: Jewelled peacetime tales of Rāma’s exile and Rāvaṇa’s domicile as alternative afterlife anticipations in the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
- 13. Train stations, enterprising priests and the deadly blows of kuśa grass: Reading the purāṇ as with a magic‑realist lens
- 14. Textures of purāṇic transmission: A contemporary vernacular exposition of a Sanskrit purāṇa
- 15. The Śivaśarmopākhyāna of the Padma Purāṇa as a bizarre compendium of epic and purāṇic tales of Pitṛbhakti
- 16. Same, same but different: The Tamil Kāñcippurāṇam and its Sanskrit source
- 17. The ‘purāṇification’ of the death of Kṛṣṇa
- 18. Lambs, lightning, nakedness and fire: Polythetic networks and literary elaborations of the Purūravas–Urvaśī narrative
