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VOLUME XL (2014)


CONTENTS

Author Title
TIZIANA PONTILLO

Preface

ALESSANDRO BATTISTINI Cardboard Weapons: Rudraṭa,The Goddess and the Origin of Citrakāvya
JOHANNES BRONKHORST Reflections on the Fate of Northwestern Brahmins
EWA DEBICKA-BOREK The Bravery of Sāluva Narasiṃha and the Grace of Narasiṃha Deity
ALEXANDER DUBYANSKIY Patterns of Heroic Behavior in Old and Medieval Tamil Poetry
DANIELLE FELLER The Epic Hero: Between Brahamin and Warrior
MARTIN HRÍBEK Heroes from the Margins in Contemporary Bengali Fiction
FRANK KÖHLER Karṇa and the Dharmik Evaluation of Characterin the Mahābhārata
CHIARA NERI – TIZIANA PONTILLO Words Involving the Stem Brahman- Denoting the Achievement of Super-Human Status in Vedic and Sutta Piṭaka Sources
ALBERTO PELISSERO Some Glimpses about the Semantic Domain of Vīra in Indian Culture
DAVID PIERDOMINICI LEÃO The Kavi as a Warrior: the Poetic Fight Between Aruṇagirinātha Diṇḍima and Śrīnātha as an Image of Literary Changes in 15th Century Vijayanagara
CHIARA POLICARDI Mastering Oneself, Meeting the Otherness: the Vīra in the Early Tantric Yoginī Cult
CHETTIARTHODI RAJENDRAN When the King is Captured: Perceptions Of Heroism in the Pratijñāyaugandharāyaṇa Of Bhāsa
PAOLA M. ROSSI The Sounds of the Warrior: the Vedic Drums between War and Poetry
BOZENA SLIWCZYNSKA Bravery of the Durātman Hero – the Figure of Rāvaṇa on the Kūṭiyāṭṭam Stage
DANUTA STASIK Immovable as Aṅgada: īsvardās’s Aṅgad paij (1502)
LIDIA SUDYKA The Chejarla Temple Myth Revisited: Self-decapitation in Medieval Andhra
LETIZIA TRINCO Heroes Beyond the Texts: Sacrifice, Death and Afterlife in the Iconography of Southern Maharashtra’s Hero-Stones
ANNA TRYNKOWSKA The Making of a Hero: Kṛṣṇa in Mahābhārata 2.30-42 and in Māgha’s Śiśupālavadha
ALEKSANDRA TUREK A Good Villain: the Bravery of the Dacoits from the Śekhāvaṭī Region of Rājasthān
JAROSLAV VACEK Tamil Sangam ‘Man of War’ – His Activities and Aspirations
YAROSLAV VASSILKOV The Indian Hero in Heaven and on Earth: on the Meaning of the Word Devaputra

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