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...

This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Pa...

This is the first full-length study of the asrama system, a Hindu construct consisting of four le...

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 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...

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

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

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...

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