Overview :This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Oli... Read More
Overview :In the first major English translation of the ancient Upanisads for over half a century, Olivelle's work incorporates the most recent histor... Read More
Overview :An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian hi... Read More
Overview :This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English tran... Read More
Overview :The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--=a?rama and var.na--=a?rama is the name given to a system of four distinct and... Read More
Overview :King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. Whe... Read More
Overview :The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generat... Read More
Overview :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 class... Read More
Overview :The Pancatantra is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest Indian books to be translated into Western lang... Read More
Overview :In this first critical edition of the legal treatise of Viṣṇu (Viṣṇu Smṛti), Olivelle locates the text geograp... Read More
Overview :The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable. The lessons a... Read More
Overview :The Dharmasastra ascribed to Yajnavalkya, commonly called Yajnavalkya Smrti, is a text on religious, civil, and criminal law and jurispruden... Read More