Argument and Design : the Unity of the Mahābhārata.

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Reading and Rethinking with the Abhinavadvaipāyana -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- From Supplementary Narratives to Narrative Supplements -- Vishwa Adluri -- Chapter 1 -- Not Without Subtales: Telling Laws and Truths in the Sanskrit Epics -- Alf Hiltebeitel -- Chapter 2 -- On the Upatva of Upākhyā­nas: Is the Uttarakāṇḍa of the Rāmāyaṇa an Upākhyā­na of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta? -- Robert P. Goldman -- Chapter 3 -- The Epic's Singularization to Come: The Śakuntalā and Yayāti Upākhyā­nas in the Southern Recension of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta -- Joydeep Bagchee -- Chapter 4 -- Introductory Notes on the Literary Structure of the Mārkaṇḍeyasamāsyāparvan -- Greg Bailey -- Chapter 5 -- Of Daddies and Demons: The Rāmopākhyāna and the Rakṣovaṃśa of the Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa -- Sally J. Sutherland Goldman -- Chapter 6 -- The Tale of an Old Monkey and a Fragrant Flower: What the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta's Rāmāyāṇa May Tell Us About the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta -- Bruce M. Sullivan -- Chapter 7 -- Supernatural Conflicts, Unanimities, and Indra in the Main Story and Substories of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta -- Fernando Wulff Alonso -- Chapter 8 -- Pride and Prostitution: Making Sense of the Gālava Exhibit in the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta Museum -- Adheesh Sathaye -- Chapter 9 -- The Divine Androgyne: Crossing Gender and Breaking Hegemonies in the Ambā-Upākhyā­na of the Ma­hāb­hā­ra­ta -- Vishwa Adluri -- Reflections on the Upākhyānas in the āpaddharmaparvan -- Chapter 10 -- Reflections on the Upākhyānas in the Āpaddharmaparvan of the Mahābhārata -- Adam Bowles -- Chapter 11 -- The Status of Upākhyānas in Madeleine Biardeau's Reflections on the Mahābhārata -- Nicolas Dejenne -- Chapter 12 -- Toward a Geography of the Mahābhārata's Uñchavṛtti Brahman -- Thennilapuram Mahadevan -- Chapter 13 -- Upākhyānas and the Harivaṃśa -- Simon Brodbeck -- Chapter 14.

The Geography of the Mahābhārata's Upākhyānas -- Alf Hiltebeitel -- Index.

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.

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