When the Goddess Was a Woman: Mahābhārata Ethnographies - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel, Volume 2

by Alf Hiltebeitel

Explicitly acknowledging its status as a strī-śūdra-veda (a Veda for women and the downtrodden), the Mahābhārata articulates a promise to bring knowledge of right conduct, fundamental ethical, philosophical, and soteriological teachings, and its own grand narrative to all classes of people and all beings. Hiltebeitel shows how the Mahābhārata has more than lived up to this promise at least on the ground in Indian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004193804
• ISBN13: 9789004193802
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"