Wege und Umwege zum Himmel. die Pilgerfahrten im Mahabharata

Bigger, Andreas

doi:10.2143/ja.289.1.443

Journal Asiatique

2001

DOI: 10.2143/ja.289.1.443

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Wege und Umwege zum Himmel. die Pilgerfahrten im Mahabharata

Andreas Bigger¹

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“…Elsewhere I have argued that this gesture and others from the concluding books form part of a larger theme of the sårasvata yåtsattra in the Mahåbhårata's ending (Austin 2008). The important relationship between the sårasvata yåtsattra and t rthayåtrå traditions in the Mahå-bhårata has been well developed by Bigger (2001), Hiltebeitel (2001, and Oberlies (1995Oberlies ( , 1998, and if I exclude the matter of the sårasvata yåtsattra from the present discussion of Books 3, 17 and 18, it is only in order to retain focus on the theoretical issue of narrative symmetry.…”

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Draupadī’s Fall: Snowballs, Cathedrals, and Synchronous Readings of the Mahābhārata

Austin

2011

Hindu Studies

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Few epic scholars today would deny that the Mahåhårata can be read as literature; most indeed would insist that it should be. There is however a wider ranger of opinion in contemporary scholarship on the matter of what exactly we are doing when we read the Mahåbhårata as literature, and by extension a range of opinions on what policies and procedures should govern our reading. The authorship of the poem-a question directly impacting our reading of the text-is thus one of the most fundamental problems of epic scholarship. Increasingly, many epic scholars are embracing Alf Hiltebeitel's model of the poem as a largescale, short-term literary creation. Others have adopted a model whereby, despite an undefined period of growth over time, the epic came to possess a marked unity and narrative continuity through a unifying redactorial process. This latter model thus acknowledges a possibly extended chronology for the poem, but emphasizes the Mahåbhårata's inner consistency and continuity, often attributing such internal consistency to a single moment or period of definitive redaction. These models of authorshipwhether creation-or redaction-centered-then enable synchronous readings of the poem which identify design and deliberate literary construction across the epic text. Thus when even widely separated moments in the enormous poem are seen to cross-reference each other through the repetition of particular motifs, symmetrical construction of episodes or other kinds of conspicuous narrative mirroring, these models of creation or redaction appear to be vindicated, while longer-term diachronic models

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Draupadī’s Fall: Snowballs, Cathedrals, and Synchronous Readings of the Mahābhārata

Austin

2011

Hindu Studies

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The Sārasvata Yātsattra in Mahābhārata 17 and 18

Austin

2008

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Balarāma’s pilgrimage to the sacred sites along the Sarasvatī

Száler

2017

Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungarica

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The famous Kurukṣetra War is rightly considered as one of the greatest mythological conflicts in world literature. All the heroes of the Mahābhārata came together on Kuru's field to fight with each other. But one of the great warriors was absent. He was Balarāma, Kṛṣṇa's brother, who alone refused to take part in the war and went on a pilgrimage. In this paper I aim to present Balarāma's travel during the epic battle. My research is based on an Epic sub-parvan, namely the Sārasvataparvan. This book is a detailed catalogue of the sacred sites along the Sarasvastī. Having studied this text I examine how the importance of these places changed through the ages. Some of them (like Somnāth, Thānesar) are among the most popular places of pilgrimage, while others have lost their significance. This paper may provide an insight into the history of this sacred area along the mysterious river.

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Wege und Umwege zum Himmel. die Pilgerfahrten im Mahabharata

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Draupadī’s Fall: Snowballs, Cathedrals, and Synchronous Readings of the Mahābhārata

Draupadī’s Fall: Snowballs, Cathedrals, and Synchronous Readings of the Mahābhārata

The Sārasvata Yātsattra in Mahābhārata 17 and 18

Balarāma’s pilgrimage to the sacred sites along the Sarasvatī

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