• "Alf Hiltebeitel no more". groups.google.com. Retrieved 2023-06-25. "Reading the Fifth Veda: Studies on the Mahābhārata - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel, Volume...
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    fire sacrifice. Several etymologies for Vanniyar have been suggested. Alf Hiltebeitel suggests that the caste name derives from vahni, a Sanskrit word thought...
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    ISBN 978-1-931707-67-1. Alf Hiltebeitel (2011). Reading the Fifth Veda: Studies on the Mahābhārata - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel. BRILL Academic. pp. 89–110...
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  • literature as occupants of the Mullai (forest region). According to Alf Hiltebeitel, Konar is a regional name for Yadava, the caste to which Krishna belongs...
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  • Rajasthan. Alf Hiltebeitel 1999, pp. 439–440. Bhrigupati Singh 2015, p. 38. Pradeep Barua 2005, p. 24. Alf Hiltebeitel 1999, pp. 440–441. Alf Hiltebeitel 1999...
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    by Alf Hiltebeitel – This trilogy is an exhaustive, scholarly account of the various folk traditions surrounding Draupadi in South India. Hiltebeitel travels...
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    news (in Hindi). Newstrend. 14 October 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2020. Alf Hiltebeitel (2009). Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics. University of...
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    also been applied to Vikramaditya, for Chandragupta II. According to Alf Hiltebeitel, Chandragupta's victory against the Shakas was transposed to a fictional...
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    used in the Mahabharata and the Rig and Atharva vedic scriptures). Alf Hiltebeitel, George Washington University professor of religion, suggests that...
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    of the mlecchas in a way "comparative religions" studies do, states Alf Hiltebeitel, along with historical characters whose ideas and actions impacted...
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  • Indian communities and dynasties have legends of fire-born ancestry. Alf Hiltebeitel theorises that the fire-lineage legends signify a new class of Kshatriya...
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    with meditation and fasting to attain infinite knowledge (kevala). Alf Hiltebeitel noted in 2011 that, following Marshall's analysis, "nearly all efforts...
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    ISBN 978-0-8147-3650-0 Hiltebeitel, Alf. "Hinduism". In Kitagawa (2002). Hiltebeitel, Alf. "Hinduism". In Kitagawa (2007). Hiltebeitel, Alf (2011). "The Indus...
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    History of ancient India. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 31. Alf Hiltebeitel 2009, p. 472. Alf Hiltebeitel 2009, p. 471. William Cooke Taylor (1838). Examination...
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  • State, Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0674034563, pages 149, 289 Alf Hiltebeitel and Kathleen Erndl (2000), Is the Goddess a Feminist?: The Politics...
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    Retrieved 11 November 2021. "ŚB 10.2.11-12". Bhaktivedanta Vedabase. Hiltebeitel, Alf (1988). The Cult of Draupadi, Volume 2: On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess...
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  • and recreation to (probably) reflect the Battle of the Ten Kings. Alf Hiltebeitel rejects Witzel's and Brockington's arguments as "baffling fancy" and...
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    Mackenzie Brown 1990, pp. 129–130. Alf Hiltebeitel & Kathleen M. Erndl 2000, pp. 139-140 (Cynthia Humes). Alf Hiltebeitel & Kathleen M. Erndl 2000, pp. 139-142...
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    even have a custom of the sacred thread being worn by women. Both Alf Hiltebeitel and Flood locate the origins of the Smarta Tradition in the (early)...
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  • 2.31 Rocher 1986, p. 183 with footnotes. Rocher 1986. Dalal 2014. Alf Hiltebeitel (1999). Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics. University of...
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    Günther-Dietz (1989). "Between Ghost and God: Folk Deity of the Deccan". In Alf Hiltebeitel (ed.). Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of...
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    1964, p. 89. R. B. Singh 1964, pp. 10–12. R. B. Singh 1964, p. 25-26. Alf Hiltebeitel 1999, p. 447. Har Bilas Sarda 1935, pp. 220–221. For a theorized map...
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    Parashurama, Rama, Krishna and others in the Akanaṉūṟu . According to Alf Hiltebeitel – an Indian Religions and Sanskrit Epics scholar, the Akanaṉūṟu has...
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    University of Michigan Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0472025220. Alf Hiltebeitel 2009, p. 264. Alf Hiltebeitel 2009, pp. 273–275. Ashish Rajadhyaksha; Paul Willemen...
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    ISBN 978-0-520-23240-2. Hiltebeitel, Alf (2011-07-27). When the Goddess was a Woman: Mahābhārata Ethnographies - Essays by Alf Hiltebeitel. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-19380-2...
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  • distinguishes the Varnas, he asks? The Mahabharata then declares, according to Alf Hiltebeitel, a professor of religion, "There is no distinction of Varnas. This...
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    literature Rudra was not a protector of wild animals. Herbert Sullivan and Alf Hiltebeitel also rejected Marshall's conclusions, with the former claiming that...
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  • ISBN 9788126006977. Kota Venkatachelam (1956). Indian eras. pp. 63–70. Alf Hiltebeitel (2009). Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadi among...
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    the concept of Karma. Scholar Alf Hiltebeitel takes this up in detail in his study of Dharma and Bhagwat Gita. Before Alf, the scholar Sylvain Lévi is...
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    anthropomorphic form of the central figure was deducible to any certainty. Alf Hiltebeitel rejects a proto-Shiva identification; he supports Srinivasan's thesis...
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