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Upanisads by Patrick Olivelle 9780199540259
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.31The Upanisads are the central scriptures of Hinduism. They represent some of the most important literary products in the history of Indian culture and religion, both because they played a critical... -
Yājnavalkya Dharmaśāstra by Patrick Olivelle 9789390232345
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £39.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390232345Author Patrick OlivelleFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Primus BooksPublisher Primus... -
The Law Code of Manu by Patrick Olivelle
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46'Manu was seated, when the great seers came up to him: "Please, Lord, tell us the Laws of all the social classes, as well as of those born in between..."' The Law Code of Manu is the most... -
Pancatantra: The Book of India's Folk Wisdom by Patrick Olivelle
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.02The 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 other Indian work has had a greater influence on... -
A Dharma Reader: Classical Indian Law by Patrick Olivelle
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.60Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India's diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this... -
Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom by Patrick Olivelle 9780814762080
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal... -
Ashoka: Portrait of a Philosopher King by Patrick Olivelle 9780300270006
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £20.42An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history "Mr. Olivelle has produced an outstanding monument... -
The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation by Patrick Olivelle 9780195124354
RRP: £132.50Booksplease Price: £100.23This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete... -
Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions by Patrick Olivelle 9780857284327
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £68.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857284327Author Patrick OlivelleFormat HardbackPage Count 328Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem... -
Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture by Patrick Olivelle 9780190696153
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.95For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the... -
The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation by Patrick Olivelle 9780195070453
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £60.07The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source... -
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kautilya's Arthasastra by Patrick Olivelle 9780190644123
RRP: £71.00Booksplease Price: £49.29King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AS. was described as... -
The Arthasastra: Selections from the Classic Indian Work on Statecraft by Patrick Olivelle 9781603848497
RRP: £53.99Booksplease Price: £38.53The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian political thought; it also provides a comprehensive and... -
The Arthasastra: Selections from the Classic Indian Work on Statecraft by Patrick Olivelle 9781603848480
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.30The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian political thought; it also provides a comprehensive and... -
The Law Code Of Visnu: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra by Patrick Olivelle 9789386552884
RRP: £72.95Booksplease Price: £66.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789386552884Author Patrick OlivelleFormat HardbackPage Count 604Imprint Primus BooksPublisher Primus... -
Language, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion by Patrick Olivelle 9780857284310
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £68.04This collection brings together a series of Patrick Olivelle's research papers, published over a period of about ten years, whose unifying theme is the search for hidden historical context and... -
The Law Code of Visnu: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra by Patrick Olivelle 9780674051393
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £35.72The Law Code of Visnu (Vaisnava-Dharmasastra) is one of the latest of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century CE in Kashmir. Both because the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra is the... -
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle by Steven E. Lindquist 9781783080670
Booksplease Price: £26.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783080670Author Steven E. LindquistFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Anthem PressPublisher... -
Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle by Steven E. Lindquist 9780857287908
RRP: £70.00Booksplease Price: £68.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780857287908Author Steven E. LindquistFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Anthem PressPublisher... -
Dialogue in Early South Asian Religions: Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Traditions Brian Black 9781409440130
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £41.39Dialogue between characters is an important feature of South Asian religious literature: entire narratives are often presented as a dialogue between two or more individuals, or the narrative or... -
A Treatise on Dharma by Yajnavalkya
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60A new English translation of the most influential legal text in medieval India.A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, is the finest example of the genre of dharmasastra-texts... -
Female Ascetics in Hinduism by Lynn Teskey Denton
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world-that of female ascetics in India.Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women... -
The History of the Arthasastra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India by Mark McClish
Booksplease Price: £32.12The Arthasastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and governance. It is traditionally believed that politics in ancient... -
Female Ascetics in Hinduism by Lynn Teskey Denton 9780791461808
Booksplease Price: £26.07Provides both a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of a little-known world-that of female ascetics in India.Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women... -
The History of the Arthasastra: Sovereignty and Sacred Law in Ancient India by Mark McClish 9781108476904
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £86.44The Arthasastra is the foundational text of Indic political thought and ancient India's most important treatise on statecraft and governance. It is traditionally believed that politics in ancient... -
Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics by Wendy Doniger
Booksplease Price: £24.21An esteemed scholar of Hinduism presents a groundbreaking interpretation of ancient Indian texts and their historic influence on subversive resistance Ancient Hindu texts speak of the three aims of... -
Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth by Gananath Obeyesekere 9780520232433
RRP: £29.00Booksplease Price: £27.28With "Imagining Karma", Gananath Obeyesekere embarks on the very first comparison of rebirth concepts across a wide range of cultures. Exploring in rich detail the beliefs of small-scale societies of... -
The Character of the Self in Ancient India: Priests, Kings, and Women in the Early Upanisads by Brian Black 9780791470138
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £69.61Explores the narratives and dialogues of the Upanisads and shows that these literary elements are central to an understanding of Upanishadic philosophy.This groundbreaking book is an elegant... -
The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya by Steven E. Lindquist 9781438495620
RRP: £72.50Booksplease Price: £59.58A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.In this fascinating study, Steven E. Lindquist investigates the... -
The Literary Life of Yājñavalkya by Steven E. Lindquist 9781438495637
RRP: £25.50Booksplease Price: £22.31A literary and historical investigation into an ancient Indian religious thinker, tracing his rise in importance in the Hindu tradition.In this fascinating study, Steven E. Lindquist investigates the... -
An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History by James McHugh 9780199375943
Booksplease Price: £38.86The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and... -
Ashoka in Ancient India by Nayanjot Lahiri 9780674057777
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90In the third century BCE, Ashoka ruled an empire encompassing much of modern-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Bangladesh. During his reign, Buddhism proliferated across the South Asian... -
An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian Religion and History by James McHugh 9780199375936
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £84.23The first comprehensive book on alcohol in pre-modern India, An Unholy Brew: Alcohol in Indian History and Religions uses a wide range of sources from the Vedas to the Kamasutra to explore drinks and... -
The Clay Sanskrit Library: Story Collections, Tales, Fables: 9-volume Set by Clay Sanskrit Library 9780814717493
RRP: £127.00Booksplease Price: £103.62Adventure, conquest, romance, comedy, suspense, and tragedy are just a few of the themes woven together by the range of styles represented in this set of classical Sanskrit literature. The set brings... -
Political Violence in Ancient India by Upinder Singh
RRP: £43.95Booksplease Price: £36.76Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru helped create the myth of a nonviolent ancient India while building a modern independence movement on the principle of nonviolence (ahimsa). But this myth obscures...