Recommended reading
On history, culture, ethics
Eliade, M. Yoga: Immortality and Freedom. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1973.
Gonda, J. Ancient Indian Kingship from the Religious Point of View. London: Brill, 1966.
Heesterman, J. C. The Ancient Indian Royal Consecration. The Hague: Mouton, 1957.
Majumdar, R. C. ed. History and Culture of the Indian People. Vol. 2. The Age of Imperial
Unity. Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1951.
O’Flaherty, W. ed. Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1980.
Pandey, R. Hindu Sam.ska ̄ras: A Socio-Religious Study of The Hindu Sacraments. Second
edition. Banares: Motilal Banarsidass, 1969.
Sharma, R. S. History of Pañcala to c.AD 550. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1983.
Srinivasan, D. M. ed. Mathura: the Cultural Heritage. New Delhi: American Institute of
Indian Studies, 1989.
Thapar, Romila. As ́oka and the Decline of the Mauryas. London: Oxford University Press,
1961.
Some important textual translations and commentaries
Derrett, J. D. Dharmasu ̄tras and Juridical Literature: History of Indian Literature.
Weisbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1973.
Doniger, W. and Smith, B. K. trs. The Laws of Manu. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991.
Goldman, R. P. general ed. The Ra ̄ma ̄yan.a of Valmiki: An Epic of Ancient India.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1984–91.
Hiltebeitel, A. The Ritual of Battle: Kr.s.n.a in the Maha ̄bha ̄rata. Ithaca: Cornwell Press,
1976.
Maha ̄bha ̄rata, Critical Edition. With Pratika Index. 28 volumes. Poona: Bhandarkar
Oriental Research Institute, 1933–72.
Miller, Barbara Stoller. tr. Bhagavad-Gı ̄ta ̄. New York: Bantam Books, 1986.
Minor, R. Bhagavad-Gı ̄ta ̄, An Exigetical Commentary. Columbia, MO: South Asia Books,
1982.
Olivelle, P. tr. The Pañcatantra: the Book of India’s Folk Wisdom. New York: Oxford, 1997.
Olivelle, P. tr. Dharmasu ̄ tras. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2000.
Rama ̄ya ̄n.a, Critical Essays. Seven volumes. Baroda: Oriental Institute, 1960–75.
Rangacharya, Adya. tr. Na ̄t.ya-S ́a ̄stra. Bangalore: Ibh Prakashana, 1943.
Rangarajan, L. N. The Arthas ́a ̄stra: Edited, Translated, and Introduced. Delhi: Penguin,
1992.
Richman, Paula. ed. Many Rama ̄ya ̄n.as: The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South
Asia. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991.
Van Buitenen, J. A. B. et al., tr. Maha ̄bha ̄rata. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1973.
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