Wendy Doniger
Author
Physical Desc
779 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world's oldest major religions, this book elucidates the relationship between recorded history and imaginary worlds. Hinduism does not lend itself easily to a strictly chronological account: many of its central texts cannot be reliably dated; its central tenets -- karma, dharma, to name just two -- arise at particular moments in Indian history and differ in each...