Mythic landscapes and argumentative trails in Sanskrit epic literature proceedings of the Sixth Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Purāṇas / edited by Ivan Andrijanić, Sven Sellmer ; general editor, Mislav Ježić

The sixth volume of the DICSEP publications contains eleven papers. Seven of them are concerned with the Mahābhārata, three with the Purāṇas, and one with both."--Page xiii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface of the general editor / Mislav Ježić -- Mahābhārata topics. Has the Mahābhārata ever been a "secular" epic? / Yaroslav Vassilkov -- Sacrifice in the Mahābhārata and beyond or Did the author(s) of the Mahābhārata understand Vedic sacrifice better than we do? / Johannes Bronkhorst -- Yudhiṣṭhira's dilemmas : on two texts of debate in the Mahābhārata / Greg Bailey -- Mountains in the Āraṇyakaparvan of the Mahābhārata / Sudha Berry -- Nalopākhyāna revisited / Klara Gönc Moačanin -- Notes on the text history of Mokṣadharmaparvan's Vasiṣṭha-Karālajanaka-Saṃvāda (MBh 12,291-12,296) / Ivan Andrijanić -- Vasu(s) in the Mahābhārata / Vishwa Adluri. -- Mahābhārata and Harivaṃśa. Mercy, my jewels! The Syamantaka, Aśvatthāman's Maṇi, and the earrings / Simon Brodbeck. -- Purāṇic topics. Parallel passages in the Harivaṃśa, the Matsyapurāṇa and the Brahmāṇḍa-Vāyu core / Horst Brinkhaus -- Kṛṣṇa lifts up Mount Govardhana : historical and comparative perspective / Mislaw Ježić -- Jaina tradition and the Bhāgavatapurāṇa / Renate Söhnen-Thieme.