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Journal of Vaishnava Studies Volume 14 No. 2, Spring 2006 Contents Introduction Disappearing Dragons and Russian Dolls: Unpacking
the Vrtrahatya in the Aranyakaparva Extracting the Katha-Amrta (elixir of Story):
Creation, Ritual, Sovereignty and Textual Structure in the Sanskrit Mahabharata The Ideology of Self-Willed Death in the Epic
Mahabharata Myth and Ideology of the Imperial Kxatriya:
Viewing the Mahabharata from Here and Now Yoga and the Mahabharata: Engaged Renouncers Karma-yoga as Sacrifice: Tracing the Continuity
of Ideas from the Vedas to the Mahabharata Avenging the Violation of Draupadi (and Bharata
Mata) in Badrinatha Bhatta's Kuru-vana-dahana Like Suns Risen at the End of Time: Metaphor and
Meaning in the Mahabharata Book Reviews About the Contributors Brian Black received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University, where he is currently a researcher working on a project entitled "Epic Constructions: Gender, Myth and Society in the Mahabharata." Simon Brodbeck received his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, taught in the Sanskrit Department at the University of Edinburgh, and is currently a researcher on the Arts and Humanities Research Council project "Epic Constructions: Gender, Myth and Society in the Mahabharata." Christopher Chapple, Professor of Theological Studies and Associate Academic Vice President at Loyola Marymount University. James M. Hegarty is a lecturer in Indian religions at the University of Cardiff where he teaches Sanskrit, early South Asian literature, and the anthropology of performance in South Asia. His doctoral dissertation focused on the Sanskrit Mahabharata Irina Kuznetsova's current Ph.D. dissertation is "Dharma in Ancient Indian Thought: Tracing the Continuity of Ideas from the Vedas to the Mahabharata." She works as a Lector in Sanskrit and Hindi at the University of Cambridge. Pamela Lothspeich received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Columbia University, and is currently teaching courses in Hindi and South Asian literature and culture at Michigan State University. Vaughan Pilikian has an M.A. in Classics from Cambridge University and an M.Phil. in Sanskrit from Oxford University. He was a Frank Knox Scholar at Harvard. Bruce M. Sullivan is Professor of Religious Studies and Asian Studies at Northern Arizona University is Flagstaff, Arizona. He has co-authored two volumes on Mahabharata-based Sanskrit dramas. Nick Sutton is the Director of Continuing Education at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies with a role of devising and delivering courses in Hindu Studies designed for the British Hindu community. He has published a book and a number of articles on the Mahabharata and Hindu religious though in general. Lynn Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Roehampton University. She has degrees in Religious Studies from the University of Lancaster and a D.Phil. in Oriental Studies from the University of Oxford.
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