Dharma, Disorder and the Political in Ancient India : The Apaddharmaparvan of the Mahabharata (Brill's Indological Library)

This book is a close study of the Āpaddharmaparvan which situates it within its context in the great Sanskrit epic the Mahābhārata and within Indian political and social thought, and explores the relationship of its didacticism to the broader literary context of the Mahābhārata.