Way of life : king, householder, renouncer : essays in honour of Louis Dumont

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Way of life : king, householder, renouncer : essays in honour of Louis Dumont

edited by T.N. Madan

Motilal Banarsidass Pub., 1988

New ed. (wirh corrections and additions)

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First ed.: Delhi and Paris , 1982

Includes bibliographical references and index

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The present Volume brings together essays dealing with an important aspect of the ideological foundation of Indic civilisations, namely the notion of the good life or 'Purusartha' Contributed by 17 scholars from Britain, France, Holland, India and the USA. They deal specifically with the Brahmanical ideologies of Kingship householdership and renunciation.

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