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...Brian A. Hatcher Dharmasūtras: The Law Codes of Ancient India . Translated by Patrick Olivelle . Oxford World's Classics. New York : Oxford University Press , 1999 . xlvi, 434 pp. $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2001 2001 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Karen Lang The Āśrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution . By Patrick Olivelle . New York : Oxford University Press , 1993 . xxii, 274 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 762 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Frits Staal Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation . Translated by Patrick Olivelle . New York and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xv, 320 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK...

...Mikael Aktor Manu's Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Mānava-Dharmaśāstra . By Patrick Olivelle . Oxford and New York : Oxford University Press , 2005 . x , 1131 pp. $99.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 850 T H E J O U R N A L...

...Wendy Doniger Upanisads . The World's Classics. Translated by Patrick Olivelle . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 1996 . lx, 446 pp. $6.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 829 the extent of seeking alliances...

... Lateefs research on twentieth-century Muslim women. SRIMATI BASU DePauw University Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Ancient India. Translated by PATRICK OLIVELLE. Oxford World's Classics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. xlvi, 434 pp. $12.95 (paper). Created as supplements to the Veda...

...) as the oldest text and placing the upper limit for Apastamba at about 300 B.C.E. According to Olivelle, this would put Gautama at about 250-00 B.C.E., with the earliest layers of the extant Baudhayana at about 150 B.C.E., and Vasistha appearing "somewhat later," perhaps in the first century of the common era...

... OLIVELLE. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993- xxii, 274 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Patrick Olivelle explores the theological and historical context in which the system of four airamas the modes of life of a vedic student, a married householder, a forest hermit, and a world renouncer arose, developed...

... their sacred thread (yajnopavita), an attribute he assigns, following P. V. Kane, to "the period of the smrtis," i.e., "the first few centuries of the common era" (p. 10; my italics). Dating anything as vague as "the smrti period" is hazardous and Olivelle himself assigns it a few pages later to "the last four...

... of celibacy and renunciation "to legitimize modes of life different from that of the householder by providing a place for them within the sphere of dharma, thereby stretching this central concept in a new direction" (p. 96). The transition from the original to the classical system, Olivelle argues, entailed...

... whom Dharmaśāstra systematically excludes from this project of power, such as women and those who are now called Dalits. Olivelle, for example, opines that Manu's treatment of kingship is in part intended to deny legitimacy to powerful Kushana rulers (p. 24). And Mikael Aktor argues that Dharmaśāstra's...

.... Patrick Olivelle's "Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism" is, I think, the best essay in the entire collection. His topic is "the ascetic creation of the human body" viewed "as a deconstruction of the socially created body" with special reference to the physical body, sexuality, food, and hair...

... and Translation of the Ma¯navaDharma´sa¯stra. By PATRICK OLIVELLE. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. x, 1131 pp. $99.00 (cloth). This edition of Manu s Code of Law is the fruit of more than twelve years of continued work. Although a project of such dimensions naturally involves collaboration...

... University Press, 2008) is cited as an example. The book is divided into three parts. Part one deals with the history of Hindu law, from the ancient texts through colonial and contemporary developments. Chapters cover the history of Hindu legal traditions (Donald R. Davis, Jr., Patrick Olivelle...

..." it of later accretions/interpolations/defilements, like the misguided editors of the so-called critical editions of the Sanskrit Epics. And now we have lost one of my favorites. It a shame that Olivelle has left out the MaitrT, a problematic but fascinating text, (which, when I last saw it, was firmly...

..., Aśvaghoṣa, had an apologetic agenda and wrote for a Brāhmaṇical audience (see pages xix-li in Life of the Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa , translated by Patrick Olivelle [New York: New York University Press, 2008]). Another area discussed is relic worship. Bronkhorst argues that in areas of South Asia where...

... in Urdu, and his extensive field work, presents a comprehensive and equally objective study of an otherwise misunderstood Muslim thinker. IFTIKHAR H. MALIK Bath College Upanisads. The World's Classics. Translated by PATRICK OLIVELLE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. lx, 446 pp. $6.95 (paper). Every...

..., Olivelle, Clooney, Mainkar, Modi, Suryanarayana Sastri, Bhattacharya, Tiwari, Potter), who all maintain that Sankara advocated monasticism as a sine qua non for self-realization, the author makes his counter thesis. He proceeds by looking at Sankara's own words vis-a-vis renunciation in all of his works...

... K. Smith's and Patrick Olivelle's recent (early 1990s) work, very little recent (1990s) scholarship seems to have been incorporated into the presentation. This is most obvious in Sharma's sections dealing with the Veda, which does not mention the plethora of recent research into the Indus and Vedic...

... by Olivelle, Radhakrishnan, and others, who suggested that Krsna's "Catholicism" embraced all other cultic forms. Minor points out that the verse, if seen in its context, shows that Krsna's teachings distinguish sharply between the right devotion and forms of worship that result from inadequate knowledge. 582...