January 1962
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Western Folklore
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... A different suggestion of primary orality is seen in the Mahābhārata's formulaic style, as Brockington has argued (Brockington 1998: 103-16), assisted by famous work on formulaic diction and variant usage in living oral traditions (Lord 1960;Parry 1971). This kind of work is easily co-opted to bolster the old preoccupation in European Mahābhārata studies with trying to find the original oral epic kṣatriya parts of the text (perhaps based on historical events; see de Jong 1975: 34-37;Witzel 2005: 22-24, esp. ...
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Translating Vaidya’s Harivaṃśa
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January 1962
Western Folklore