Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History : Essays in Honor of Robert P. Goldman

Contents: 1. Vidyasagarah Suvarnapurusah: a brief survey of Robert P. Goldman's Scholarship/Deven Patel. 2. Hermeneutical glosses on scholarly work on the Mahabharata and the Puranas/Greg Bailey. 3. Is the script relevant?: further evidence from a Nevari-script Ramayana manuscript/John Brockington. 4. The boy 'slowpoke' as deep thinker: in defense of 'straying' wives against father's uxoricidal rage/James L. Fitzgerald. 5. Time in the Mahabharata and the time of the Mahabharata/Luis Gonxzalez Reimann. 6. Karma, curse, or divine illusion: the destruction of the Buddha's clan and the slaughter of the Yadavas/Phyllis Granoff. 7. Mapping Bhakti through friendship in the Sanskrit epics/Alf Hiltebeitel. 8. I' II wash out your mouth with my boot: a guide to philological argument in Mughal-era Banaras/Christopher Minkowski. 9. What was Bhatta Nayaka saying?: The hermeneutical transformation of Indian aesthetics/Sheldon Pollock. 10. The other kind of Brahman: Rama Jamadagnya and the psychosocial construction of Brahman power in the Mahabharata/Adheesh Sathaye. 11. Illusory evidence: the construction of Maya in Valmiki's Ramayana/Sally J. Sutherland Goldman. 12. The Dana Stuti Hymns of the Rigveda/Romila Thapar. 13. Memories of bob/Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson."