Patrick Olivelle is professor emeritus of Sanskrit and Indian religions at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of a number of books, including
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India (2013);
Visnu”s Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Vaisnava Dharmasastra (2009);
Dharma: Studies in Its Semantic, Cultural, and Religious History (2009);
Manu”s Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra (2005); and
Dharmasutras: The Law Codes of Ancient India (1999).
23 Ebook di Patrick Olivelle
Patrick Olivelle: A Dharma Reader
Whether defined by family, lineage, caste, professional or religious association, village, or region, India’s diverse groups did settle on a concept of law in classical times. How did they reach this …
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Five Discourses of Worldly Wisdom
The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons are disguised as short stories, featuring mainly animal prot …
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€19.99
Patrick Olivelle: Ascetics and Brahmins
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religio …
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€29.99
Patrick Olivelle: Language, Texts, and Society
This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context and devel …
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€30.99
Dharmasutras
The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a …
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€9.62
Pancatantra
The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on …
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€12.73
Dharmasutras
The Dharmasutras are the four surviving works of the ancient Indian expert tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behaviour a community recognizes as binding on its members. Written in a …
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€9.62
Pancatantra
The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western languages. No other Indian work has had a greater influence on …
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€12.67
Patrick Olivelle: Asrama System
The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism–rama and vara–rama is the name given to a system of four distinct and legitimate ways of leading a religious life: as a celibate student …
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€139.97
Early Upanishads
This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle’s acclaimed new English translation (Oxford, 1996), it also includes the complete Sansk …
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€117.08
Samnyasa Upanisads
The first readable and accurate translation of twenty of the most authoritative Hindu documents pertaining to ascetic ideals and the ascetic way of life, this text opens to students a major source fo …
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€77.05
Patrick Olivelle: Manu’s Code of Law
Manu’s Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical civilization. It paints an astoundingly detailed pictu …
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€123.30
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India
King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya’s Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered around 1905, the AS. was described as p …
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€62.92
Patrick Olivelle: Dharma
This is the first scholarly book devoted to the study of the term dharma with in the broad scope of Indian cultural and religious history. Most generalizations about Indian culture and religion upon …
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€64.25
Olivelle, Patrick: Collected Essays 1
The first volume of Collected Essays brings together research papers of Olivelle published over a period of about ten years. The unifying theme of these studies is the search for historical context a …
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Olivelle, Patrick: Collected Essays 2
The second volume of Collected Essays brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major str …
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€16.45
Patrick Olivelle: Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism
Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text written by Yadava Prakasaa, whose life and activities are of historical inte …
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€36.99
Patrick Olivelle: Grhastha
For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the …
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€97.36
Patrick Olivelle: Grhastha
For scholars of ancient Indian religions, the wandering mendicants who left home and family for a celibate life and the search for liberation represent an enigma. The Vedic religion, centered on the …
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€75.99
Donald R. Davis & Patrick Olivelle: Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law
Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. …
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€146.69
Donald R. Davis & Patrick Olivelle: Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law
Through pointed studies of important aspects and topics of dharma in Dharmasastra, this comprehensive collection shows that the history of Hinduism cannot be written without the history of Hindu law. …
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€148.03
Caroline Humfress & David Ibbetson: Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law
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Caroline (University of St Andrews, Scotland) Humfress & David (University of Cambridge) Ibbetson: Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law
The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each …
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€193.80
