Guest guest Posted January 23, 2007 Report Share Posted January 23, 2007 Phillip, How are things? Suicide in MBh is a theme I am working on right now, albeit limited to drowning and mahAprasthAna. Mac has the Thakur volume, I will pick it up tomorrow; I can scan the pages you want and email them. What kind of suicide are you thinking of, prAya? I have been collecting various MBh drowning-at-holy-places references, in connection with the Sarasvata/Darshadvata yatsattra, tirthayatra, Prayaga etc, but have not made my way into books 12 or 13 yet. One important article on yoga & suicide, that Mac interlibrary loans has been unable to get for me(!), is: Schreiner, Peter. "Yoga - Lebenshilfe oder Sterbetechnik?" In Umwelt & Gesundheit, vol. 3/4, 1988, pp.12-18. kus'alam, Chris Austin ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- Von: Phillip Ernest <yadbhavisyati (AT) (DOT) co.in> An: mahabharata_study; indology Gesendet: Montag, den 22. Januar 2007, 04:39:52 Uhr Betreff: [Y-Indology] suicide in the Mahabharata Dear groups, I want to locate the passages dealing with suicide in the didactic Mahabharata. I suppose they are most likely to be in Santiparvan or Anusasanaparvan. I have Nicholas Sutton's book _Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata_ but the two index entries on suicide concern sati. I was hoping to find Upendra Thakur's 1963 book _The history of suicide in India_ in the BORI library, but I can't find it in the card catalogue. I recall that this book cites quite number of passages concerning suicide from the Mahabharata. They are to be found on just a couple of pages, as I recall. Can someone, using this book or some other book or his own knowledge, point me towards the passages I am thinking of. I have the impression that they can't be very numerous or long. Hopefully they occur together in just a couple of places. Perhaps they are in the part of the Santiparvan recently translated by Fitzgerald. Many thanks. Phillip Pune ------------ --------- --------- --- Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Answers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2007 Report Share Posted January 31, 2007 Dear Chris, I would be very interested in your research. If you could keep me posted, I will be delighted. I am also keen to know about suicide in other texts/mythological episodes in Indian history and literature. Like Sepukku (in Japan) does suicide have religious sanction at all in Hinduism? Thank you. Smarth Chris Austin <sigurd_deinheld (AT) (DOT) de> wrote: Phillip, How are things? Suicide in MBh is a theme I am working on right now, albeit limited to drowning and mahAprasthAna. Mac has the Thakur volume, I will pick it up tomorrow; I can scan the pages you want and email them. What kind of suicide are you thinking of, prAya? I have been collecting various MBh drowning-at-holy-places references, in connection with the Sarasvata/Darshadvata yatsattra, tirthayatra, Prayaga etc, but have not made my way into books 12 or 13 yet. One important article on yoga & suicide, that Mac interlibrary loans has been unable to get for me(!), is: Schreiner, Peter. "Yoga - Lebenshilfe oder Sterbetechnik?" In Umwelt & Gesundheit, vol. 3/4, 1988, pp.12-18. kus'alam, Chris Austin ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- Von: Phillip Ernest An: mahabharata_study; indology Gesendet: Montag, den 22. Januar 2007, 04:39:52 Uhr Betreff: [Y-Indology] suicide in the Mahabharata Dear groups, I want to locate the passages dealing with suicide in the didactic Mahabharata. I suppose they are most likely to be in Santiparvan or Anusasanaparvan. I have Nicholas Sutton's book _Religious Doctrines in the Mahabharata_ but the two index entries on suicide concern sati. I was hoping to find Upendra Thakur's 1963 book _The history of suicide in India_ in the BORI library, but I can't find it in the card catalogue. I recall that this book cites quite number of passages concerning suicide from the Mahabharata. They are to be found on just a couple of pages, as I recall. Can someone, using this book or some other book or his own knowledge, point me towards the passages I am thinking of. I have the impression that they can't be very numerous or long. Hopefully they occur together in just a couple of places. Perhaps they are in the part of the Santiparvan recently translated by Fitzgerald. Many thanks. Phillip Pune ------------ --------- --------- --- Here’s a new way to find what you're looking for - Answers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Dear Smarth, Jay Jinendra Suicide has religious approval in Jainism. It is known as "sam.lekhana" yours M Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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