Mahabharata as allegory

[Guest guest]

In The Ritual of Battle, Hiltebeitel says that 'allegorical interpretations of

the Bharata are popular in India', but I wonder where this tradition is to be

found. I have only seen it developed in Sutkanthar's famous book. Is there

one of the Sanskrit commentaries on the Bharata which has a particularly strong

allegorical emphasis?

[Guest guest]

Refer Mahabharatatatparyanirnaya of Sri Madhvacharya. It should be

downloadable from www.dvaita.org

 

Regards

 

Vishal

 

INDOLOGY, Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest@u...>

wrote:

> In The Ritual of Battle, Hiltebeitel says that 'allegorical

interpretations of

> the Bharata are popular in India', but I wonder where this

tradition is to be

> found. I have only seen it developed in Sutkanthar's famous book.

Is there

> one of the Sanskrit commentaries on the Bharata which has a

particularly strong

> allegorical emphasis?

[Guest guest]

INDOLOGY, Phillip Ernest <phillip.ernest@u...>

wrote:

>In The Ritual of Battle, Hiltebeitel says that

>'allegorical interpretations of the Bharata are popular

>in India', but I wonder where this tradition

>is to be found. I have only seen it developed in

>Sutkanthar's famous book. Is there one of the Sanskrit

>commentaries on the Bharata which has a

>particularly strong allegorical emphasis?

 

Georg von Simson, The mythic background of the Mahabharata. Indol.

Taur., 1984. 12: p. 191-223.

 

Georg von Simson, Die zeitmythische Struktur des Mahabharata, i

Bopp-Symposium 1992 der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Reinhard

Sternemann, Editor. 1992, Univesitatsverlag C. Winter: Heidelberg. p.

230-247.

 

He writes about interpolation of gita in MBh.:

http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9901&L=indology&P=R18704

 

BTW, Hiltebeitel writes about two Krishnas in the chariot.

But prof. von Simson says that Arjuna-Krishna is a complementary

pair, a continuation of Indra-Vishnu of the Rgveda.

 

Indira Parthasarathy (was Prof. of Tamil in Delhi,

Warsaw) in his collection of essays (tamil)

mentions about J. Pryzulski's mention about

viSNu name from dravidian. Looking for the exact

citation of Pryzulski. ViSNu is tamil is

mAl "the black one". Also, nAL- as in nALamalai/nallamalai

means "black mountain" (consider naaLagiri in buddha legend).

NaaraayaNa is in tamil nAraNan, possibly from nALaNan 'black god'

(cf. kALi/kAri 'black goddess', kuLampu/kuram 'hoof'). Simson

told that he is writing a long paper on VishNu, have to ask

if it has come out.

 

Regards,

N. Ganesan