Evil in the Mahabharata by Meena Arora Nayak

Author:Meena Arora Nayak [Nayak, Meena Arora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
ISBN: 9780199091836
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2018-01-18T22:00:00+00:00

1 Here, the word lakṣaṇa is used not in its philosophical meaning of ‘definition’, but as ‘something symptomatic’—a characteristic or distinguishing feature. In the rest of this book, lakṣaṇa will be used in this meaning of the word.

2 In the Vaiṣṇava creation myth of the divine triad, Brahmā originates from the Nārāyaṇa’s navel-lotus and is Nārāyaṇa’s joy, and Rudra originates from Nārāyaṇa’s forehead and is his anger.

3 Considering that the orality of the Mahābhārata is about a thousand years prior to its first Sanskrit composition, it is possible that the Śaivic elements were all later interpolations; however, these were early enough to become integral to the frame story—and even the Critical Edition includes most ślokas related to it.

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