Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics

This book highlights debates in the epics among men and women from all sections of society. These debates criticize discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and disability through the dharmas of singleness, friendship, marriage, parenting, and ruling.

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This is a sweeping and brilliant interpretation of dharma in the Indian epics, focusing on the critical issue of justice and diversity....Vanita is a consummate storyteller and she breaks open the great stories of the Indian epics and poets. She disrupts well-worn understandings of justice, and her disruptions open space for illumination. - Dr Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Harvard Divinity School