Ein Kaiser, dem der eigene Krieg so an die Nieren geht, dass er alles versucht, um künftige zu ve...

This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period ...

This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by P...

The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and best-known legal text of ancient India.A semin...

The contrast between a married householder and a celibate ascetic who has left home and family ha...

The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indi...

The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE prob...

Classical work on Hindu law; critically edited text.

Through recent advances made in archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, this volume explores the...

The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their less...

This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hin...

Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twel...

Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehen...

The Upanisads are the central scriptures of Hinduism. They represent some of the most important l...

A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, illuminates major innovations in re...

In this first critical edition of the legal treatise of Viṣṇu (Viṣṇu Smṛti), Olivelle locates the...

An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history an...

'The first volume of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written in an ac...