Shifting Śāstric Śiva: Co-operating Epic Mythology and Philosophy in India's Classical Period.

This study accounts for disparate portrayals of divine destroyer Śiva in the normative Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata as opposed to Kālidāsa's amatory Kumārasaṃbhava and Raghuvaṃśa by contrasting the primary and secondary Sanskrit epic authors' respective reliances on the Mānavadharmaśāstra and the Kāmasū...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Hindu Studies Vol. 27; no. 2; pp. 173 - 213
Autor principal: Pathak, Shubha
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2023
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        Thapar, Romila
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