Alf Hiltebeitel
Biographic Data
| ID | 292780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alf Hiltebeitel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alf |
| FAMILY NAME | Hiltebeitel |
| SIGNATURE | HILTEBEITEL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 139 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
World of Wonders: The Work of Adbhutarasa in the Mahabharata and the Harivamsa
Freud's India
This first three chapters or first third of this book documents the ups and downs in the conflictual correspondence between Sigmund Freud and India’s first psychoanalyst, Girindrasekhar Bose. They trace the relationship through three phases of their 1920–1937 correspondence, and also compare their correspondence with Freud’s contemporary correspondence with Romain Rolland, noting similar disaffections while documenting in both exchanges Freud’s e…
Unraveling of the Bose–Freud Correspondence, with More Light Shed from the Freud–Rolland Correspondence and from Freud’s 1933–34 Work with H. D.: Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindra…
Chapter 3 treats the final periods of both the Bose–Freud and Rolland–Freud correspondences, which peter out as Freud leaves thoughts of India behind for his final book, Moses and Monotheism , in which he gives nearly full attention to Judaism. In Rolland’s case, Freud probably tried to rekindle the friendship with his open letter, “A Disturbance of Memory on the Acropolis,” about which Roland was cold and nearly mute. With Bose, ostensibly thing…
Mokṣa and Dharma in the Mokṣadharma
Introducing the M ahābhārata
Between History and Divine Plan: The Mahabharata’s Royal Patriline in Context
The Mahabharata royal patriline is tracked and contextualized here in relation to two prominent themes: its concept of a divine plan (somewhat paralleled in the Ramayana) and its chief genre term itihasa or ‘history’. It is found that these two themes intersect in the Mahabharata at the point where the goddess Ganga ‘descends’ into the royal line as the wife of King Samtanu. Ganga’s intervention then provides new means to interpret the part playe…
Dharma
From a verbal root meaning “to hold” or “uphold,” dharma is taken to have been the main term by which Buddhism and Hinduism came, over about five centuries, to describe their distinctive visions of the good and well‐rewarded life. From about 300 BCE to about 200 CE, Buddhist and Brahmanical authors used it to clarify and classify their mutual and contending values in relation to dramatically changing historical conditions. Before this, the term h…
Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative
Dharma over Time, II
Chapter 7 is about the two “minor dharma texts” mentioned in chapter 1: the Brahmanical Yuga Purāṇa (a unit by that name in an astronomical treatise) which foretells the decline of dharma toward the end of the Kali Yuga, and a cluster of mainly North Indian Buddhist texts (the earliest is probably The Prophesy of Kātyāyana) that predict a debacle at Kauśāmbī that will spell the end of the Buddhist dharma. The chapter compares these two prophetic …
When the goddess was a woman: Mahabharata Ethnographies : Essays
Recontextualizing Satire of Brahmanical Dharmasastra in the Aggañña Sutta
This article takes up passages that allow for comparison of Buddhist and Brahmanical ‘law’ in dharmasastra (including the early dharmasutras) and Vinaya. The discussion of Vinaya draws on Steven Collins’s demonstration of Vinaya allusions in the Aggañña Sutta. The article revisits the advocacy for a pre-Mauryan dating of this sutta, arguing that it is unlikely. It proposes that we redirect discussions of the Aggañña Sutta’s satiric and humorous a…
Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita: The First Known Close and Critical Reading of the Brahmanical Sanskrit Epics
Not Without Subtales: Telling Laws And Truths in The Sanskrit Epics
More Rethinking the Mahābhārata: Toward a Politics of Bhakti
Destiny and Human Initiative in the Mahābhārata
The Many Voices of the Mahabharata
Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have waylaid generations of scholars and ignited dozens of unresolved debates. In this text, Alf Hiltebeitel offers a unique model for understanding the great epic. Employing a range of literary and narrative theories, he draws on historical and comparative research in an attempt to …
Is the Goddess a Feminist: The Politics of South Asian Goddesses
The primary process of the Hindu epics
Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics - the Mahabharata and the Ramayana - continue to exert considerable cultural influence. This work offers an exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the S…
John Brockington, The Sanskrit Epics
No Abstract
Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures
Empire, invasion, and India’s national epics
Conventions of the Naimisa Forest
The Cult of Draupadī, 2: On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess
Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism
Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures
Rethinking the Mahabharata: A Reader's Guide to the Education of the Dharma King
The ancient Indian Sanskrit tradition produced no text more intriguing, or more persistently misunderstood or underappreciated, than the Mahabharata. Its intricacies have waylaid generations of scholars and ignited dozens of unresolved debates. In this text, Alf Hiltebeitel offers a unique model for understanding the great epic. Employing a range of literary and narrative theories, he draws on historical and comparative research in an attempt to …
The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahabharata
The Cult of Draupadi
Not Without Subtales: Telling Laws And Truths in The Sanskrit Epics
Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita: The First Known Close and Critical Reading of the Brahmanical Sanskrit Epics
Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics - the Mahabharata and the Ramayana - continue to exert considerable cultural influence. This work offers an exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the S…
Draupadī's garments
Conventions of the Naimisa Forest
Dying before the Mahābhārata War: Martial and Transsexual Bodybuilding for Aravāṉ
Two tamilmahābhāratafolk cults that I have studied recreate the Indian epic's "sacrifice of battle" in their festivals, and rethematize, in the symbolic registers of south Indian village goddesses and regional kingdoms, its meditations on death and regeneration (Hiltebeitel {1976} 1990:245-360; 1988a:394-435). One is the cult of Draupadī (the epic's chief heroine); the other that of Kuttantavar, son of Arjuna (the epic's chief hero) and the serpe…
The Cult of Draupadī, Vol. 1: Mythologies: From Gingee to Kurukṣetra
Śiva, the Goddess, and the Disguises of the Pāṇḍavas and Draupadi
More Rethinking the Mahābhārata: Toward a Politics of Bhakti
The Many Voices of the Mahabharata
John Brockington, The Sanskrit Epics
No Abstract
The Cult of Draupadi 1. Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra
The primary process of the Hindu epics
The Cult of Draupadī, 1. Mythologies: From Gingee to Kurukṣetra
On the Subtle Art of Interpreting
Dumézil and Indian Studies
Georges Dumézil's research on the myths, legends, rites, and social structures-in short, what he calls the "ideology"-of the Indo-Europeans has had, for the most part, considerable impact upon recent scholarly interpretation of the various Indo-European traditions. This holds not only for articles and monographs on specific matters. Better measure might be taken by noting the favorable discussion of his views and results in works whose intent is …
The Destiny of the Warrior
The "Mahābhārata" and Hindu Eschatology
The Destiny of the Warrior
Dumézil and Indian Studies
Georges Dumézil's research on the myths, legends, rites, and social structures-in short, what he calls the "ideology"-of the Indo-Europeans has had, for the most part, considerable impact upon recent scholarly interpretation of the various Indo-European traditions. This holds not only for articles and monographs on specific matters. Better measure might be taken by noting the favorable discussion of his views and results in works whose intent is …
Comparing Indo-European "Epics" Mythe et épopée. Vol. 2. Types épiques indoeuropéens: Un héros, un sorcier, un roi . Georges Dumézil Mythe et épopée. Vol. 3. Histoires romaines . Georges Dumézil
On Reading van Buitenen's Vyāsa The Mahābhārata. Vol. 1: The Book of the Beginning . J. A. B. van Buitenen
The Destiny of a King
From Myth to Fiction: The Saga of Hadingus
Nahuṣa in the Skies: A Human King of Heaven
Religion in India
Journal Article RELIGION IN INDIA Get access Gods, Priests, and Warriors. The Bhrgus of the Mahābhārata By Robert P. Goldman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977 195 pages. N. P. No L.C. No. Alf Hiltebeitel Alf Hiltebeitel George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVI, Issue 1, March 1978, Pages 76-b–78, https://doi.org/10.1093/j…
History of Religious Ideas, Volume 1: From the Stone Age to the Eleusinian Mysteries
Hindu Mythology and Its EvilsThe Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology. Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
Draupadī's garments
Rāma and Gilgamesh: The Sacrifices of the Water Buffalo and the Bull of Heaven
Śiva, the Goddess, and the Disguises of the Pāṇḍavas and Draupadi
Indo-European MarriagesMariages indo-européens: Suivi de quinze questions romaines. Georges Dumézil
History of Religious Ideas, Volume 2: From Gautama Buddha to the Triumph of Christianity
Two South Indian Oral Epics The Three Twins: The Telling of a South Indian Folk Epic . Brenda E. F. Beck The Epic of Palnāḍu: A Study and Translation of the Palnāṭi Vīrula Katha . Gene H. Roghair
Les Fêtes dans le monde hindoue. Gérard Toffin
The Two Kṛṣṇas on One Chariot: Upaniṣadic Imagery and Epic Mythology
History of Religious Ideas, Volume 3: From Muhammad to the Age of Reforms
A History of Religious Ideas
Wives of the God-King. The Rituals of the Devadasis of Puri
Folklore and Hinduism Another Harmony: Essays on the Folklore of India . Stuart H. Blackburn , A. K. Ramanujan
Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition
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