2023
DOI: 10.1017/s0041977x23000174
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The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature

Abstract: This paper examines a pattern in Sanskrit literature, labelled for convenience the “eropolitical compound”. This is a formula whereby a male protagonist's claiming of a feminine figure is made instrumental to, or tied indissociably with, a political victory or reclamation of control over a public domain. This paper first reviews a number of examples of the motif in well-known works of drama, poetry, and eulogistic inscriptions largely of the fourth–seventh centuries ce, setting these against the particular his… Show more

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