The Asrama System

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels
• The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism-- āśrama and varṇa -- āśrama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimat... Lees meer

Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

Patrick Olivelle

• Paperback | Engels, Hindi | SUNY Series in Religious Studies
• Patrick Olivelle is Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions at the University of Texas, Austin. Lees meer

Upanisads

Patrick Olivelle

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• In the first major English translation of the ancient Upanisads for over half a century, Olivelle's work incorporates the most recent historical and p... Lees meer

King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India

• Hardcover | Engels
• King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was d... Lees meer

Life of the Buddha

Ashvaghosa

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 10
• The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayódhya. This is the earliest surviving text ... Lees meer

Ashoka

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Duits
• Ein Kaiser, dem der eigene Krieg so an die Nieren geht, dass er alles versucht, um künftige zu verhindern, sie gar verbietet? Sie bekämpft, mit ethisc... Lees meer

The Samnyasa Upanisads

• Paperback | Engels
• The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of li... Lees meer

Pancatantra

Patrick Olivelle

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No ... Lees meer

Language, Texts, and Society

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthem South Asian Studies
• This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studi... Lees meer

Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom

• Hardcover | Engels | Clay Sanskrit Library | nr. 28
• The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguis... Lees meer

A Dharma Reader

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Sourcebooks in Classical Indian Thought
• Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept o... Lees meer

King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India

• Paperback | Engels
• King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was d... Lees meer

The Law Code Of Viṣṇu

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this first critical edition of the legal treatise of Viṣṇu (Viṣṇu Smṛti), Olivelle locates the text geographically in Kashmir and dates it to aroun... Lees meer

The Law Code of Manu

Patrick Olivelle

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford World's Classics
• The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generates controv... Lees meer

Manu's Code of Law

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels | South Asia Research
• Manu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civil... Lees meer

Ascetics and Brahmins

Patrick Olivelle

• Hardcover | Engels | Cultural, Historical and Textual Studies of South Asian Religions
• This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Lees meer

Reimagining Asoka Memory and History

Patrick Olivelle, Janice Leoshko, Himanshu Prabha Ray

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume explores on the material, social, and ideological aspects of Asoka's reign in light of advances made in archaeology, epigraphy, and numism... Lees meer