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Dying before the Mahābhārata War: Martial and Transsexual Bodybuilding for Aravāṉ

Alf Hiltebeitel
Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 447–473.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2058746
Published: 01 May 1995
... (Hiltebeitel {1976} 1990:245–360; 1988a:394–435). One is the cult of Draupadī (the epic's chief heroine); the other that of Kuttantavar, son of Arjuna (the epic's chief hero) and the serpent-woman UlupT. I will focus here primarily on the latter. Kuttantavar is a Tamil deity whose myths and rituals orchestrate...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1995) 54 (2): 311–312.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911800038833
Published: 01 May 1995
... at questioning the project of authenticating Southeast Asia. ALF HILTEBEITEL examines the cult of Kuttantavar/Aravan in present-day south India that derives from the "epic" tradition of the Mahabharata by exploring classical epic stories about this hero and by reconstructing the folk-ritual world of the South...
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Understanding Maternal Polytheism and Paternal Monotheism: Exploring the Eastern and Western Traditions through Freud, Bose, and the Mahābhārata - Freud's Mahābhārata and Freud's India: Sigmund Freud and India's First Psychoanalyst Girindrasekhar Bose

Himanshu Jha
Journal of Asian Studies (2021) 80 (3): 767–770.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911821001078
Published: 01 August 2021
... Bhisma in the Mahābhārata and the sea goddess Thetis and her son Achilles in the Iliad (p. 97). Chapter 5 establishes an intricate relationship between the text and their interpretations as cults by examining the Kali and Aravan-Kuttantavar cults in Tamil Nadu. At this juncture, Hiltebeitel...
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