Way of Life: King, Householder, Renouncer : Essays in Honour of Louis DumontT. N. Madan |
Contents
JEANCLAUDE GALEY | 3 |
December 1979 | 13 |
| 27 | |
CHARLES MALAMOUD | 33 |
Mahābhārata | 75 |
Hierarchies of kings in medieval India | 99 |
perspec | 127 |
the separation of | 155 |
Householder and wanderer | 251 |
Householders and renouncers in the | 273 |
his individuality and his | 299 |
F POCOCK The vocation and the avocations among | 321 |
J P PARRY Death and cosmogony in Kashi | 337 |
between the living and the dead | 367 |
TOM SELWYN Adharma | 381 |
Contributors | 419 |
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artha Arthaśāstra ascetic aśrama auspicious become bhaṭṭil Bhima birth brahmacarya Brahman Buddha Buddhist caste centre context Contributions to Indian cosmomoral order cremation culture Dasaratha death deities devadasis dharma dharmaśāstra divine Drupada Dumont dvija earth epic essay fact festival fire forest gaddi goals goddess gotra gṛhastha Guggali HH's hierarchy Hindu householder human impurity India Indian sociology individual institutions Kālidāsa kāma Kashi Kashmir Kautilya king of kings kingdom kingship Kṛṣṇa Kshatriya Lakṣmaṇa Lakṣmi living lord Louis Dumont Madan Mahābhārata marriage means mokṣa monastic notion one's overlord palace Pandits perform purity puruṣārtha Rāma Rāvana reference relation relationship renouncer renunciation rites ritual royal Ruler rules sacred sacrifice sangha sannyāsa sannyasin sciences Shudra Sītā Śiva social society śrauta śruti status story svadharma symbolic temple texts throne tion tradition trivarga University varņas veda vedic village Viṣṇu wealth whole wife women word yāyāvara