From Poetic Immortality to Salvation: Ruru and Orpheus in Indic and Greek Myth

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An Overview of Mahābhārata Scholarship: A Perspective on the State of the Field

“…The works here considered help to make the field of Mbh studies a vibrant area of academic inquiry. A monograph that has brought attention to the field is Disorienting Dharma : Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the Mahābhārata, by Emily Hudson (), having received the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: Textual Studies from the American Academy of Religion in 2013. This work has merit: it is a study of the theme of suffering in the Mbh and aims to take seriously Indic literary theory.…”

“…This capacious work merits intensive study. Adluri and Bagchee () compare narratives in Greek and Sanskrit in an effort to clarify aspects of the MBh. Comparative in a very different but equally provocative way is The Difficulty of Being Good : On the Subtle Art of Dharma by Gurcharan Das ().…”

Tirukkural, Quran and Old Testament: The Relationship between Greek Hippolytus, Hebrew Joseph, Arabic Yūsuf and Buddha with Chastity, Orphic and Sobriety

“…This trade was not merely an exchange of merchandise, but it also led to various literary exchanges (Campbell 1960, Edmunds 2002, Allen 2007, 2014, Adluri 2012, Alonso 2017) that provided way for transaction of many poetic metres (Figure 2) poetic forms (Figures 3-5) (Pugazhendhi 2020b(Pugazhendhi , 2022a. It is noteworthy that some of these literatures are religious.…”

Hindu studies in a Christian, secular academy

“…10 For the entrance into pravṛtti as a fall see the story of Cyavana, a brāḥmaṇa who is so called because he fell (cyu) into existence from his mother's womb. For the story and for the contrast with Acyuta, "the unfallen one," as the unfallen brahman, see Adluri and Bagchee (2012).…”