1st Edition
Nonviolence in the Mahabharata Siva’s Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra
1. Introduction: Gleaners Were and Are for Real 2. Peace and Non-violence in the Mahābhārata 3. Śiva’s Summa on Gleaners 4. Gleaners and Beggars, Buddhist, Jain, and Brahmanical 5. Daṇḍaka Forest 6. Approaching Balarāma’s Tīrthayātrā and Kuruksetra with Three Hypotheses 7. More Homespun Tales of Kurukṣetra: Further towards a Mahābhārata Ethnography 8. Naimiṣeya Kuñja: The Mahābhārata’s Chief Holdout for Gleaners 9. The Gleaning Seam along Balarāma’s Route 10. King Kuru and the Kurus 11. King Kuru at Kurukṣetra 12. Gleaners of the Text 13. Conclusion: Non-violence and Śāntarasa en–route to Kurukṣetra
Biography
Alf Hiltebeitel is Columbian Professor of Religion, History, and Human Sciences in the Department of Religion at The George Washington University, USA.
