RE: [Y-Indology] bardology of the Bharata

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>adheesh sathaye <adheesh

>Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:16:28 -0600

>Re: [Y-Indology] bardology of the Bharata

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>I believe John Brockington has a review of relevant oral formulaic

>approaches to both epics in his _Sanskrit Epics_ (1998); Alf

>Hiltebeitel has discussed the orality of the epics in at least two

>places (_Rethinking the Mahabharata_ and _Rethinking India's Oral and

>Classical Epics_), but he is generally in favor of written--or at least

 

>literary--composition. Giorgio Bonazzoli had a series of articles on

>this question with respect to puranic composition in the journal

>_Purana_

 

Thank you, I can obtain these books here. I am interested in the question

of when writing may have entered the Bharata's process of composition.

It will be nice if Bonazzoli's articles are in Italian.

 

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>"Carlos Lopez" <carloslopez

>Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:37:16 -0000

>[Y-Indology] Re: bardology of the Bharata

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>Phillip

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>You might take a look Mary Caroll Smith's The Warrior Code in India's

>Sacred Song (Garland Publishing, New York& London, 1992), a study of

>the trishtubh verses of the Mahabharata. She explores the formulaic

>contruction of the epic by examining the distinct trishtubh lines

>(regular vs. irregular ). She concludes that this core of trishtubh

>verses is the old nucleus of the Epic.

 

I read what I guess must be the first form of this book, a memeographed

MA thesis from the early seventies, back in Toronto, and we have the same

edition here, which I recently began to reread, but found in my browsing

nothing but highly technical metrical information which was not useful to

me at the moment. But no doubt she had much more to say twenty years later.

I am sure I can find this later edition here too. Thank you.

 

Phillip