Vol. 26 No. 2 (2024): Shades of Violence: Aggression and Domination in Indian Culture. Part II. From Inscriptions to Indian Art

Edited by David Pierdominici Leão and Ewa Dębicka-Borek

Published: 2024-07-24

Front Matter

• Front Matter

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Introduction

• Overview of the Volume

  David Pierdominici Leão, Ewa Dębicka-Borek

  V-IX

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Articles

• Adding Insult to Injury Whipping Stories from the Mahābhārata

  Danielle Feller

  1-30

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• Split in bhakti, United in bhakti Violence as Devotion in the Jaimini Cycle of Tales*

  Naresh Keerthi, Elena Mucciarelli

  31-75

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• Cruel Substances On “Binding” and “Killing” in the Tamil Siddha Alchemical Texts

  Ilona Kędzia-Warych

  77-98

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• Kṛpa A Neglected Brahmin Warrior

  Frank Köhler

  99-117

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• Shattering the Crown of the God Violence as a Formative and Legitimising Element in the Pāṇḍya Dynastic Narrative

  David Pierdominici Leão

  119-151

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• Vīrabhadra, the Dreadful Destroyer of Sacrifice Representations in Plaques from South India

  Cinzia Pieruccini

  153-174

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• The Goddess on the Lion Animal Symbolism in the Representations of the Female Warrior Deity in Kuṣāṇa and Early Gupta India

  Chiara Policardi

  175-204

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• Celebrating Violence Some Stage Practises in Kerala’s Classical Theatre

  Chettiarthodi Rajendran

  205-218

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• The Landscape of the Battlefield The Case of Varadāmbikāpariṇaya-Campū by Tirumalāmbā

  Lidia Sudyka

  219-240

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• Rajput Vocabulary of Violence

  Aleksandra Turek

  241-258

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Reviews

• Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India. Ed. Madhu Khanna, Singapore: Springer 2022. pp. 188. ISBN 978-981-19-3022-5 (eBook) —Reviewed by Robert Czyżykowski (Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)

  Robert Czyżykowski

  261-266

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• Razak Khan. 2022. Minority Pasts: Locality, Emotions, and Belonging in Princely Rampur. Delhi: Oxford University Press. Mir Yar Ali ‘Jan Sahib’. 2021. The Incomparable Festival. Ed. Razak Khan. Transl. Shad Naved. Gurugram: Penguin Random House India —Reviewed by Maria Puri (independent scholar)

  Maria Puri

  267-281

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Back Matter

• Back Matter

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