..., but from Arjuna, the great- dharma is to begin, with the two armies facing est of the Pāndava heroes, one who had shown each other, the Gītā’s role in the narrative is to such aplomb in burning Khāndava in Krishna’s force events toward an outcome...

... to the god Dharma about this injustice (that are not told how they intended to get the langur is, a-­dharma), Dharma says, “You stuck blades of monkeys to stop pissing on the buildings, but after grass up the tails of little butterflies when you were a deputy mayor fell to his death from his terrace...

... of what was meant by the term Hinduism . By the 1920s, the expressions most often used by these groups to denote Hinduism were “Sanatana Dharma” or “Eternal Religion,” and “Arya Dharma” or “Noble Religion.” When MahaSabha leaders used these terms, they implied more than just an ancient Hindu tradition...

...: Christians Contemplate own recent book, The View from Mars Hill, was doing. the Dharma Gates” (unpublished manuscript, May One day, it was ranked around 142,000. The next day, 2006), 33. it came in around...

.... Notwith- cess of transforming the consciousness of a collec- standing his enduring skepticism toward any reli- tivity. The primary purpose of satyashodh dharma, gion’s claim to absolute veracity, Phule articulated pace Chiplunkar, was not to identify any unitary, his vision of a search for truth...

... to an intrigue, he would seem that pietas is nothing less than the categorically refuses, saying: “It is not within my Virgilian counterpart to Rama’s dharma. power to defy my father’s bidding. I bow my head The reasons for Aeneas’s exile lead to in supplication. I wish to go to the forest . . . another...

...- placed on instituting ecclesiastical religious organi- stitutional, religious and social. Hindu is primarily zation. The central plank of this agenda is forging used in a social rather than religious context. It in- unity among Hindus. The meaning of Hindu unity cludes several dharma, sects, sub...

... the Buddha's legacy within a Hindu nationalist vision such that Buddhism would always be physically and metaphorically ancillary to the Sanatan Dharma or Eternal (Hindu) Order. The continued influence of these initiatives, they argue, is evidenced by the now popular but contested refrain in India...

... very quickly and build up new style can be legitimized in the religious tradition of strategies to enable us to have organic linkages bhakti and its rejection of bigotry. We took the de- with the masses. bate down to the “Dharma Shastras.” It is this new...

...- sity of California Press, 1976), 168  –  74. gies, 2 7   –   5 4 . Many have remarked on the nonequivalence of cial audience, would have been likely to avoid the terms “dharma” and “religion,” and it is not incitement of violence.8 Indeed, some...

... ators of a tradition, progenitors of the Orientalist brotherhood”; ern and Asian practitioners and popularizers, world to teach the eternal dharma. This is made 187 culminating in the culturally hybrid teachings abundantly clear in the archaeology of Indian of Chogyam Trungpa, founder...

...- tionship with animals and their death, with the nal with the term killability: if the thing is killable, act of killing undertaken only by particular castes is the act experienced as killing by the execution- and religious groups according to their dharma. ers? How does killability shade into vitality...

... University Press). Chandrasekhar , S. , ( 1980 ). The Nagarathars of South India: An Essay and a Bibliography on the Nagarathars in India and Southeast Asia . (Delhi: MacMillan). Chandavarkar , A.G. , ( 1983 ). “Money and Credit”, in Dharma Kumar (ed.), The Cambridge Economic History of India...

...-to-the-pen Brahman - was shocked. He looked at me with his castor-oil face and said "How can you say such things to the Source of the Indescribable, Qualityless, Formless Juggernaut? Shame on you for trying to catch his dharma-hood in a noose of words. " I cursed another good hot curse...

... in mean a person who was accepted as a better• relatively narrow groups and even narrower spatial or geo• class follower of the Dharma of Class and graphical limits does result in the perpetuation of certain su• Asrama (Varnasrama dharma) associated perficial biological traits among communities...

...,   Studies with this ancient Hindu philosophy to make moral imagination in the form of debate, dis- the and the concept of Allah synonymous with Love. sension, and argument. In my opinion, ethnog- South Africa The meaning of dharma as a syncretic universal...

... of transition, there were many occasions when a warrior's multiple loyalties—to overlords, to family members, to retainers, and to older norms—might come into conflict. Although loyalty to the overlord, typically called svāmi-dharma in Rajput texts, was a recurrent theme in the poems explored by Busch...

...-than-willing allies within estab- Hindu dharma, have not taken one step to stop the lished political parties. “Islam is in Danger” in Paki- dowry related burnings of Hindu brides in Delhi stan and Bangladesh was matched by “Hindus are and Uttar Pradesh and the wanton attacks on lower Dying...

..., and in using those texts to teach tions to power in Indian intellectual history: us about the contours and possibilities of our “Whatever act aryas who know the Vedas claim present existence. Pollock’s enterprise has re- to be dharma, is dharma, whatever they reject sulted in many specialist articles...

..., for his counsel. Sharma's friend belonged to “a respectable Brahman family” but wished to marry a Muslim girl. The girl was of age, “ha[d] no objection and [was] willing to be converted in the way our Hindu Dharma allows or permits.” But therein lay the problem. “Kindly,” would Savarkar “say if our Dharma...