Patrick Olivelle
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 536387 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patrick Olivelle |
| NOMBRES | Patrick |
| APELLIDO | Olivelle |
| FIRMA | OLIVELLE P |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 63 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 63 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1979 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Ashoka
Ashoka
An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-century BCE king who ruled over a larger area of the Indian subcontinent than anyone else before British colonial rule. Ashoka sought not only to rule his territory but also to give it a unity of purpose a…
The world renouncer and man-in-the-world
This article is a critical re-evaluation of Louis Dumont's theory of the opposition between the man-in-the-world and the world renouncer within traditional Indian society. Drawing on new research into gṛhastha, the most common indigenous term for a householder, the article shows that Dumont's theory is basically flawed. When due attention is paid to historical developments within Hinduism, the grhastha and the renouncer ( pravrajita) are seen as …
How to Change Law in Classical India
In his celebrated book The Concept of Law, H. L. A. Hart posits three secondary rules in a legal system: recognition, change, and adjudication. In this paper, I look at the second category: the means provided within the Indian legal system by which laws, in this case dharma, can be changed. The category of recognition provides us with means of knowing what the laws are. In modern systems, this is done through the passage of laws in a duly constit…
From trivarga to puruṣārtha
This paper explores the history of two central categories of ancient Indian moral philosophy: trivarga and puruṣārtha. After an exhaustive analysis of the textual evidence from the earliest times until the middle of the first millennium CE, the paper concludes that the classificatory term trivarga requires an implicit referent and that its reference is artha in the sense of things that are beneficial. The term puruṣārtha, furthermore, is an elabo…
Four Feet of Legal Procedure and the Origins of Jurisprudence in Ancient India
The well-known classification of legal procedure into "four feet" presents certain conceptual problems for the Indian legal tradition that various Smṛtikāras and commentators have attempted to resolve in different and sometimes contradictory ways. These difficulties arise because the four feet originally referred in Indian legal theory to four distinct, hierarchical legal domains rather than procedural means for reaching a verdict. The earliest a…
Long-distance trade in ancient India
Much of the significant data for long-distance and maritime trade across South Asia in the ancient period comes from archaeological sources. Nevertheless, textual sources too have some significant things to say about material culture and trade in the ancient world. In a special way, texts give insights into what people thought about trans-regional trade, the globalisation of the ancient world, both the good and the bad that came with it, insights…
Aśvaghoṣa’s Apologia
The Oxford History of Hinduism
The foundation of Hindu law is the voluminous textual tradition called Dharmaśāstra, the expert tradition on dharma . This book seeks to delineate the historical development of Dharmaśāstra, even though the tradition presented dharma as timeless and ahistorical. The volume establishes the importance of law for the history and study of Hinduism by providing interpretive descriptions of all the major topics of Hindu dharma according to this traditi…
Titles of Law
The term vyavahārapada has two related meanings: “a matter under dispute” and “an area of litigation,” sometimes rendered as a “title of law.” In the dharma tradition, the vyavahārapadas are the categories of private transactions that can be litigated in royal courts. They pertain to disputes initiated by private parties and are, to that extent, distinct from rules the king might enforce on his own prerogative. This chapter explores the developme…
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India
This book presents an English translation of Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra (AŚ) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AŚ was described as perhaps the most precious work in the whole range of Sanskrit literature, an assessment that still rings true. This translation of this significant text takes into account a number of important advances in our knowledge of the texts, inscriptions, and archeological and art historical re…
Means of Capturing a Fort
This chapter presents the English translation of book 13 of Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra.
Activity of a King Preparing to March into Battle
Talking Animals
Animals are certainly good to think (bonnes a penser), as famously noted by Claude Levi-Strauss, but from the dawn of literature humans have also given them voices so that they can participate vicariously in an anthropomorphized animal linguistic and social world paralleling the human, giving rise to the literary genre of the animal fable. The earliest use of animals in literature was probably as similes. Such allegories abound in the earliest st…
Kings, Ascetics, and Brahmins
This chapter focuses on the intersection between the realms of the socio-political and the religious with the strong implication of the dynamic nature of this interaction and of the intimate connection between religion, society, and political formations. It lays special emphasis on the dynamic and changing nature of ancient Indian religions and to counter the implicit, and sometimes explicit, assumption of a changeless India fostered by colonial …
Material Culture and Philology
Ascetics and Brahmins
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years
Between the Empires
This volume is the result of a conference organised by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Its purpose was to bring together the world's leading Indologists representing a variety of disciplines to discuss and share recent research on a hitherto neglected period of Indian history
Manu’s Code Of Law
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 civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed picture of ancient Indian life-covering everything from the constitution of the king ’s cabinet to the price of a ferry trip for a pregnant woman-and its doctrines have been central to Indian thought and practice for 2000 years. Despite its importance, ho…
Manu and the Arthaśāstra, A Study in Śāstric Intertextuality
The Semantic History of Dharma the Middle and Late Vedic Periods
Structure and Composition of the Mānava Dharmaśāstra
Abhaksya and abhojya
Patrick Olivelle, Abhakṣya and abhojya: An Exploration in Dietary Language, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 345-354
The Early Upanisads
The Integrity of the Yoga Darśana
Caste and purity
The caste system, according to the currently prevalent view, is based on purity, each caste being located on a hierarchical gradation of purity, a thesis laid out most compellingly by Louis Dumont. It has generally bern assumed that purity is the basis of hierarchy in ancient India. This paper examines the ancient texts on Dharma relating to purity and social hierarchy and finds that the texts establish no link between the two and that they rarel…
The Semantic History of Dharma the Middle and Late Vedic Periods
Orgasmic Rapture and Divine Ecstasy
Manu and the Arthaśāstra, A Study in Śāstric Intertextuality
Young Śvetaketu
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Amrtā
Food in India
Contributions to the Semantic History of Saṃnyāsa
Four Feet of Legal Procedure and the Origins of Jurisprudence in Ancient India
The well-known classification of legal procedure into "four feet" presents certain conceptual problems for the Indian legal tradition that various Smṛtikāras and commentators have attempted to resolve in different and sometimes contradictory ways. These difficulties arise because the four feet originally referred in Indian legal theory to four distinct, hierarchical legal domains rather than procedural means for reaching a verdict. The earliest a…
Aśvaghoṣa’s Apologia
Structure and Composition of the Mānava Dharmaśāstra
Unfaithful Transmitters
The world renouncer and man-in-the-world
This article is a critical re-evaluation of Louis Dumont's theory of the opposition between the man-in-the-world and the world renouncer within traditional Indian society. Drawing on new research into gṛhastha, the most common indigenous term for a householder, the article shows that Dumont's theory is basically flawed. When due attention is paid to historical developments within Hinduism, the grhastha and the renouncer ( pravrajita) are seen as …
Talking Animals
Animals are certainly good to think (bonnes a penser), as famously noted by Claude Levi-Strauss, but from the dawn of literature humans have also given them voices so that they can participate vicariously in an anthropomorphized animal linguistic and social world paralleling the human, giving rise to the literary genre of the animal fable. The earliest use of animals in literature was probably as similes. Such allegories abound in the earliest st…
Abhaksya and abhojya
Patrick Olivelle, Abhakṣya and abhojya: An Exploration in Dietary Language, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 122, No. 2, Indic and Iranian Studies in Honor of Stanley Insler on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 345-354
The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism
This study argues that the Indian Ascetic traditions have two independent sources, the one Vedic, the other non-vedic. This point of view has been expressed here and there in the scholarly literature, but it has never yet been argued in detail on the bssis of textual evidence. The primary evidence is as follows: Early Indian Literature - Primarily the Epics, Buddhist and Jaina Litrature - explicitly differentiates between two types of ascetics, w…
Sadhus of India
Saṃnyāsa
Strukturen Yogischer Meditation
Vāsudevāśrama Yatidharmaprakāśa
Contributions to the Semantic History of Saṃnyāsa
Dimensions of Renunciation in Advaita Vedānta
Hindu Tantrism
Kāṇphaṭā
The Structure of the World in Udayana's Realism
Mokṣa in Jainism, According to Umāsvāti
Inklusivismus
Devī-Māhātmya
L'autorité du Veda selon les Nyāya-Vaiśeṣikas
Gananath Obeyesekere and the Study of Religion
Renunciation in Hinduism
Sacrifier et donner à voir en pays Malabar
Renunciation in Hinduism
Neo-Hindu Views of Christianity
Advaitāmoda, by Vāsudevśāstrī Abhyankar
Tapta Mārga
Meditation in Śaṅkara's Vedānta
The Āśrama System
The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism-- =a’srama and var.na-- =a’srama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer. In this, the first full-length study of the =a’srama system, Olivelle uncovers its origin and traces its subsequent history. He examines in depth its relationship to other in…
Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads
Ascetic Withdrawal or Social Engagement
Food in India
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