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Lineages, emerging exemplars, and movements

Hegarty, James M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4769-2449 2024. Lineages, emerging exemplars, and movements. Whitaker, Jarrod, ed. A Cultural History of Hinduism in Antiquity, Vol. 1. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 147-167.

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Abstract

The present chapter considers early South Asian religious history through the lens of its recurrent and particular concern with lineage and with exemplars. We will explore, by means of the analysis of a series of narratives drawn not just from Brahmanical, but also Buddhist and Jain traditions, how competing accounts of the nature of the cosmos, the significant past, and the role of human and divine agents developed in South Asian antiquity. We will argue that the differing approaches to lineage and to exemplification were competitively elaborated by the three traditions in such a way that they are better read together than apart.

Item Type: Book Section
Date Type: Publication
Status: Published
Schools: History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion
D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D051 Ancient History
D History General and Old World > D History (General)
D History General and Old World > DS Asia
P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
Publisher: Bloomsbury
ISBN: 9781350024434
Last Modified: 05 Aug 2024 09:32
URI: https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170913

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