Ekalavya

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Greetings all, I'm new here.

 

Does anybody know of any good sources on the Ekalavya story, Mahabharata

1.123?

 

There are brief discussions in Bimal Matilal's 'Krsna: in defense of a

devious divinity' (in Sharma (ed.), 'Essays on the Mahabharata', Leiden

1991) and Robert Goldman's 'Esa dharmah sanatanah: shifting moral values and

the Indian epics' (in Bilimoria and Mohanty (eds), 'Relativism, suffering

and beyond', Delhi 1997), but, apart from a couple of Indian novels based on

the story, the only extended treatment I am currently aware of is S.

Shankar's 'The thumb of Ekalavya: postcolonial studies and the 'third world'

scholar in a neocolonial world' (in 'World Literature Today' no. 68.4,

1994).

 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 

Simon Brodbeck.