TY - BOOK AU - Goldman, Robert P. ed. AU - Tokunaga, Muneo ed. TI - Epic undertakings SN - 9788120833821 U1 - 809.132 PY - 2009/// CY - Delhi : PB - Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, KW - Valmiki. -- Rāmāyaṇa -- Congresses. KW - Mahabharata -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses. KW - Vedic literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses KW - Mahabhaarata. KW - Ramayaṇa (Valmiki) KW - Vedic literature. KW - Sanskritlitteratur. KW - Vedisk sanskritlitteratur. N1 - Includes passages in Sanskrit; Horst Brinkhaus / Manu Vaivasvata as sraddhadeva: On the Insertion of the Pitrkalpa into the Harivamsa -- John Brockington / Valmiki's Portrayal of Hanuman -- Mary Brockington / Husband or Slave? Interpreting the Hero of the Mahabharata -- Simon Brodbeck / Husbands of Earth: Ksatriyas, Females, and Female Ksatriyas in the Stnparvan of the Mahdbhdrato -- Nicolas Dejenne / Trihsaptakrtvah: The Significance of the Number "Thrice Seven" in the Rama Jamadagnya Myth of the Mahabhdrata -- Danielle Feller / The Stoiy of Asita Devala and Jaigisavya in Mahabhdrata -- James L. Fitzgerald / A Preliminary Study of the 681 Tristubh Passages of the Mahabhdrata -- Robert P. Goldman / To Wake a Sleeping Giant: Valmiki's Account(s) of the Life and Death of Kumbhakarna / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman STta's War: Gender and Narrative in the Yuddhakanda of Valmiki's Rdmdyana -- Alf Hiltebeitel / Authorial Paths Through the Two Sanskrit Epics, Via the Rdmopdkhydna -- Mislay Jezic / The Relationship between the Bhagavadgata and the Vedic Upanisads: Parallels and Relative Chronology -- Paolo Magnone / Patterns of tejas (and ksamd) in the Epics -- Ram Karan Sharma / Some Aspects of the Character of Bhisma in the Mahiibhcirala -- GEORG von SlMSON / The Mahabharata as a Source of Inspiration for Visakhadatta's Drama Mudraraksasa: A Case Study of Intertextuality -- Renate SOhnen-Thieme Indra in the Harivamia -- MUNEO TOKUNAGA / BhTsma's Discourse as a sokapanodana ER -