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    Ashoka

    Patrick Olivelle

    An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history

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    The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

    The first volume of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written in an accessible and clear-cut style by a collaborative team of world-renowned scholars, it provides…

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    Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions

    Patrick Olivelle

    This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.

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    The Law Code Of Visnu: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra

    Patrick Olivelle

    The Law Code of Visnu ( Vaisnava-dharmasastra ) is one of the of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century ce in Kashmir. This title contains a…

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    Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

    Patrick Olivelle

    This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hindu ascetic practices available in English. It is also the clearest.

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    Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

    Patrick Olivelle

    This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hindu ascetic practices available in English. It is also the clearest.

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    Grhastha: The Householder in Ancient Indian Religious Culture

    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…

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    Language, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and Religion

    Patrick Olivelle

    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…

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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…

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    The Law Code of Manu

    The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and best-known legal text of ancient India. A seminal Hindu work, it is important for its classic description of the many…

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    King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kautilya’s Arthasastra

    King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya’s Arthashastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered in 1923, the Arthashastra was described as…

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    The Samnyasa Upanisads: Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and Renunciation

    Patrick Olivelle

    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…

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    Manu’s Code of Law: A Critical Edition and Translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra

    Manu’s Code of Law is an important text in the Sanskrit canon. It paints a picture of ancient Indian life. This volume assembles the text of Manu, including an apparatus…

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    Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE

    This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. The purpose of the conference as to bring together the…

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    The Early Upanisads: Annotated Text and Translation

    This edition of the early Upanisads , the central scriptures of Hinduism, includes the complete Sanskrit text, as well as scholarly emendations and explanations of Patrick Olivelle’s choices of particular…

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    Upanisads

    The Upanisads are the central scriptures of Hinduism, representing some of the most important literary products in the history of Indian culture and religion. This major new translation incorporates the…

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    Pancatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom

    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. It teaches the principles of…

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    A Dharma Reader: Classical Indian Law

    Patrick Olivelle

    A Dharma Reader traces the definition, epistemology, procedure, and process of Indian law from the third century B.C.E. to the middle ages. Its breadth captures the centuries-long struggle by Indian…

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    Yājnavalkya Dharmaśāstra

    Classical work on Hindu law; critically edited text.

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    The Law Code of Visnu: A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation of the Vaisnava-Dharmasastra

    The Law Code of Visnu is one of the latest of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century CE in Kashmir. This volume contains a critical edition…

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    Life of the Buddha

    Ashvaghosa

    Presents the Buddha’s teaching as the culmination of the Brahmanical tradition

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    King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India: Kautilya’s Arthasastra

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    King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya’s Arthashastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was discovered in 1923, the Arthashastra was described as…

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    A Treatise on Dharma

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    A Treatise on Dharma, written in the fourth or fifth century, illuminates major innovations in religious, civil, and criminal law, and informed Indian life for a thousand years. This new…

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    Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle

    This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians…

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    Religion and Identity in South Asia and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Patrick Olivelle

    This volume brings together sixteen articles on the religions, literatures and histories of South and Central Asia in tribute to Patrick Olivelle, one of North America’s leading Sanskritists and historians…

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    The Arthasastra: Selections from the Classic Indian Work on Statecraft

    The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthsastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian political thought; it also provides a comprehensive and unparalleled panoramic…

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    The Oxford History of Hinduism: Hindu Law: A New History of Dharmasastra

    An edited collection on the history of law and legal texts in the Hindu traditions.

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    Reimagining Asoka: Memory and History

    Through recent advances made in archaeology, epigraphy, and numismatics, this volume explores the material, social, and ideological aspects of Asoka’s reign. It also examines the making of the cultural memory…

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    The Asrama System: The History and Hermeneutics of a Religious Institution

    Patrick Olivelle (Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies; and Director, Center for Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin)

    A study of the asrama system, a Hindu construct consisting of four legitimate ways of leading a religious life. Olivelle traces its early history and how it gradually established connections…

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