Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- A.Classical Dharma Texts and Their Relative Dating -- B.Three Critical Editions -- C.Paradigm Shifts on Dharma: The Case of the Mahabharata -- D.Chapter by Chapter -- 2.Asoka Maurya -- A.Asoka's Inscriptions -- B.A Comprehensive Dhamma -- 3.A Vedic History of Dharma -- A.Dharman in Early and Later Rgvedic Usages -- B.Dharman as Enigma -- C.Dharman and Rgvedic Kingship -- D.Mantra Period and Later Samhita Usages -- E.The Brahmanas -- F.The Upanisads -- 4.Early Buddhism: Three Baskets of Dharma -- A.Sutra Basket Dharma -- B.Abhidharma Basket Dharma -- C.Vinaya Basket Dharma -- 5.Post-Vedic Brahmanical Dharma -- A.Vedic Schools and the Dharmasutras -- B.Toward Consensus in Brahmanical Dharma Texts -- C.What's New with Manu -- D.Brahma in Manu's Frame Narrative -- E.Varna (Caste), Asrama (Life Pattern), the King, Sudras, and Women -- F.Rajadharma: Establishing a King's Dharma -- G.A Day in a King's Life -- 6.Dharma over Time, I: Big Time Dharma -- A.Kalpas and Yugas -- B.Buddhist and Hindu Kalpas -- C.Originary Dharma in the Mahabharata -- D.Kalpas, Manvantaras, and Yugas in Manu and the Mahabharata -- 7.Dharma over Time, II: Prophesies of Disaster -- A.The Yuga Purana -- B.Variations on the Debacle at Kausambi -- C.The Yuga Purana and the Kausambi Myth -- 8.Women's Dharma: Sastric Norms and Epic Narratives -- A.Stridharma -- B.The Law of the Mother -- C.Mother Ganga -- D.Mother Kali Satyavati -- E.The Transitional "Three Mothers" -- F.Mothers Kunti and Gandhari -- G.Kunti, Madri, and Pandu among the Hundred Peak Mountain Rsis -- H.Settling Mother Kunti and Her Sons Back at Hastinapura -- I.Conclusions -- 9.Two Dharma Biographies? Rama and Yudhisthira -- A.The Royal Life as Adventure -- B.Frames and Frontmatter on Rama, Yudhisthira, and Dharma -- C.Sidestories and Subtales, Foregrounding and Legal Precedent -- D.Monstrous Encounters -- E.Questionable Killings: Valin and Drona -- F.Rama and Yudhisthira: Some Comparative Points -- 10.Draupadi and Sita: Dharmapatnis of Two Different Kinds -- A.Family Background, Birth, and Childhood -- B.Marriage, Divine Plan, Early Signs of Trouble -- C.Sita and Draupadi on Their Svadharma -- D.Captivity and Exile -- 11.Dharma and the Bhagavad Gita -- A.Svadharma and Svakarma: Qualities, Merits, and Virtues -- B.Who Has Svadharma? -- C.Manu and the Bhagavad Gita: Two Kinds of Karmayoga -- D.Where Krsna Is There Is Dharma -- E.Dharma Rings in the Bhagavad Gita Proper -- 12.Dharma and Bhakti -- A.Mapping the Divine Plans -- B.The Placer and the Ordainer -- C."Avatara" -- D.Friendship, Hospitality, and Separation -- E.Rsidharma -- F.Rama and Krsna as Guests, Hosts, and Friends -- 13.Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita: A Buddhist Reading of the Sanskrit Epics and Their Treatments of Dharma -- A.Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita -- B.The Centrality of Dharma in Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita -- C.Asvaghosa the Brahmin, Buddhist Convert, and Scholar -- D.Asvaghosa and Epic Precedents -- E.The Buddhacarita and the Ramayana -- F.The Buddhacarita and the Mahabharata -- G.Postscript on Asoka.
