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Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9789359440712,x+197pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Out of the nineteen articles received from the contributors and positively assessed by an international assessors' team to be published in this volume, four are concerned with the growth of the Sanskrit epic literature (A. Hiltebeitel, O. Hellwig, M. Jezic, H. Brinkhaus), the first deals with the both Sanskrit epics, the next two with the Ramayana, and the last one with the transition from the epic to Puranic cosmogony; six papers explore some aspects of the social and economic context of the epics, especially the Mahabharata (J. Bronkhorst, G. Bailey, Y. Vassilkov, T. Pontillo, P. Szczurek, D. Feller); three papers are concerned with the composition and narrative strategies in the Puranas (R. Sohnen-Thieme, M. Taylor, K. Valpey); four are dedicated to the relationship between the Sanskrit epics and kavya (P. Olivelle, K. Gonc Moacanin, L. Sudyka, A. Bonisoli); and two articles are philological studies of the meaning of particular words in epic contexts (S. Sellmer, L. Kulikov). …

Hardcover. Condizione: New. ISBN:9789359440514,435pp.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. The volume contains research papers presenting widely differing approaches and elaborating different problems from standpoints that are often innovative, instructive and very fruitful. In accordance with the conception and mission of the DICSEP conferences and publications, these contributions should continue stimulating the international research in the field of the Sanskrit epics and Puranas as crucial works in the Indian literature, religion and culture, and as literary monuments which have had a great impact on the heritage of Asia and mankind. We hope that the contributions to this sixth volume of the DICSEP publications will attract the due attention of the international scholarly community.…

Hardcover. Condizione: New. The scholarly papers collected in this DICSEP volume present substantial, innovative, systematic, interesting and vivid contributions. The editors present this book to the scholarly community with the desire that it may be a valuable contribution to scientific knowledge in the field of Sanskrit studies, and that, like the previous volumes of papers stimulated by the Dubrovnik International Conferences on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas, it may encourage researchers, who in any way deal with the Sanskrit epics Mahabharata and Ramayana or Puranas, to further work, discoveries and enriching scholarly discussions.…