Tabla de Contenidos: “…A comparison of recent megalith building traditions in Sumba (Indonesia) and Nagaland (India) Maria Wunderlich ; PART IV: MEGALITHS FROM INDIA AND SOUTHEASTERN ASIA ; Introduction Rabindra Kumar Mohanty, Johannes Müller ; Chapter 18 : Megalithic cultures in Southern Asia Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 19 : Megalithic architectures in India Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 20 : Northeast Indian megaliths: monuments and social structures Tiatoshi Jamir, Johannes Müller ; Chapter 21 : Megalithic monuments of Jharkhand: archaeology and ethnography Himanshu Shekhar, Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 22 : The stone jars of Southeast Asia and Northeast India: problems and prospects Tilok Thakuria ; Chapter 23 : The dolmens of Karachi, Sindh (Pakistan) Zulfiqar Ali Kalhoro ; Chapter 24 : Megaliths in Vidarbha region (India) Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Mahurjhari Megalithic Site (India) Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Bhagimohari Megalithic Site (India) Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 25 : Distributions and disparities in the megalithic burials of Vidarbha (India): a scrutiny Virag Sontakke ; Chapter 26 : Social organisation of the megalithic people in Vidarbha, Maharashtra (India) Shantanu Vaidya, Rabindra Kumar Mohanty ; Chapter 27 : Situating megalithic monuments in Tamil Nadu: content and context K. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Note on the edition and translation -- Text -- Divergent readings of Jamkhedkar's edition -- Translation -- Annotation -- Analysis and interpretation -- Vākāṭaka Gupta relations -- 7 Throne and Temple: Political power and religious prestige in Vidarbha -- Introduction -- The Vākāṭaka period -- The Vākāṭaka inscriptions -- Policy of the Vākāṭaka kings -- The Yādava period -- Ramtek Hill: Theatre of Plenipotentiaries -- 8 Little Kṛṣṇa's Play with the Moon -- The literary evidence -- Baby Kṛṣṇa's play with the moon -- The archaeological evidence -- Conclusion -- 9 Some Methodological Considerations with Respect to the Critical Edition of Puranic Literature -- Introduction -- The theory of 'oral composition' -- Composition-in-transmission -- The critical edition of epic and puranic literature -- The critical edition of the Ayodhyāmāhātmya -- 10 Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara: Studies in the Skandapurāṇa I -- Introduction -- The wedding of Śiva and Parvatī -- Śiva's exclusion from the sacrifice -- Śiva as the cosmic child -- Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara -- The synoptic edition of the Svayaṃvara myth -- Conclusion -- Pārvatī's Svayaṃvara: A Textual Reconstruction -- 11 Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241 Reconsidered (Together with Peter Bisschop) -- Preamble -- Three themes -- The five elements -- The intellectual apparatus -- Sattva and kṣetrajña -- The 'evolution theory' -- The Mokṣadharma: a plurality of views -- Appendix: Some parallels of Mokṣadharma 187 and 239-241 -- 12 Observations on the History and Culture of Dakṣiṇa Kosala (5th to 7th centuries ad) -- Introduction -- The Pāṇḍavas of Mekalā -- The family descending from Amara in Kosala -- The rulers of Śarabhapur -- The Pāṇḍuvaṃśa of Śrīpura -- The date of the Pāṇḍuvaṃśa dynasty of Śrīpura -- Tīvaradeva -- Mahāśivagupta Bālārjuna -- Tālā -- The Jiṭhānī Temple…”