Books by Patrick Olivelle

The lesser known and explored of the two pillars of Hinduism--=a'srama and var.na--=a'srama is the name given to a system of four distinct and ... More

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The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayodhya. This is the earliest surviving text ... More

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This volume explores on the material, social, and ideological aspects of Asoka's reign in light of advances made in archaeology, epigraphy, and ... More

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The only extant treatise on statecraft from classical India, the Arthasastra is an invaluable resource for understanding ancient South Asian ... More

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The Dharmasutras are the four surviving written works of the ancient Indian tradition on the subject of dharma, or the rules of behavior a community ... More

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This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has ... More

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This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation ... More

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King, Governance, and Law in Ancient India presents an English translation of Kautilya's Arthasastra (AS.) along with detailed endnotes. When it was ... More

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The first major English translation of the ancient Upanisads in more than half a century, Olivelle's work incorporates the most recent historical and ... More

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The PANCATANTRA is the most famous collection of fables in India and was one of the earliest and most influential Indian books to be translated into ... More

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The Law Code of Manu is the most authoritative and the best-known legal text of ancient India. Famous for fifteen centuries it still generates ... More

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This is the full edition of the early Upanisads, the central scriptures of Hinduism. Featuring Patrick Olivelle's acclaimed new English translation ... More

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It is intended to advance the study of Asoka both as history and historical memory. Looks at not only the "historical truth" of Asoka, but also the ... More

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The king despairs of his idle sons, so he hires a learned brahmin who promises to make their lessons in statecraft unmissable.

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The Law Code of Visnu (Vaisnava-dharmasastra) is one of the latest of the ancient Indian legal texts composed around the seventh century ce in ... More

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Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text written by Yadava Prakasa, ... More

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Manu's Code of Law is one of the most important texts in the Sanskrit canon, indeed one of the most important surviving texts from any classical ... More

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Work on the Hindu rituals for renunciation (sannyasa).

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