Argument and Design: The Unity of the

Mahābhārata
Edited by Vishwa Adluri, Hunter College, New York, and Joydeep
Bagchee, Freie Universität Berlin

· June 2016
· ISBN: 9789004311398
· Hardback (approx. 500 pp.)
· List price: €161.- / $193.-
· Language: English
· Brill's Indological Library, 49
· Imprint: BRILL
Subject
Asian Studies › South Asia
Asian Studies › Literature & Culture
Literature and Cultural Studies › Approaches to
Literature & the Arts
Philosophy › Philosophy of Religion
Religious Studies › Religion in Asia
Argument and Design features fifteen essays by leading scholars of the Sanskrit epics, the
Mahābhārata and the Rāmāyaṇa, discussing the Mahābhārata’s upākhyānas, subtales
that branch off from the central storyline and provide vantage points for reflecting on it.
Contributors include: Vishwa Adluri, Joydeep Bagchee, Greg Bailey, Adam Bowles,
Simon Brodbeck, Nicolas Dejenne, Sally J. Sutherland Goldman, Robert P. Goldman, Alf
Hiltebeitel, Thennilapuram Mahadevan, Adheesh Sathaye, Bruce M. Sullivan, and
Fernando Wulff Alonso.
READERSHIP:
All those interested in the Mahābhārata, the Sanskrit epics, Hinduism, the theology of
the Goddess, the Trimūrti, the episodes of the Mahābhārata, discussions of dharma, and
anyone concerned with literary criticism, narrative structure, and compositional and
reading strategies.

For more information see http://www.brill.com/products/book/argument-and-design-

E-Book
unity-mahabharata
booksandjournals.brillonline.com

offers online access to Brill's

books and journals.

BRILL
Phone (NL) +31 (0)71-53 53 500
Phone (US) +1-617-263-2323
Email: marketing@brill.com

View full information on http://www.brill.com/