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The abducted male
Abstract
The values communicated so clearly by Rama in his reunion speech to Sita, in Arjuna's tragic failure in the Mausalaparvan , and elsewhere in the epic world, drive the abducted male scenarios as well, only in a reversed and consequently triumphalist direction. The first of the two scenes occurs at adhyaya 99 of the critical text Harivamsa , and follows a portion of the poem in which Krishna's coastal city of Dvaraka is described in detail and his principal offspring identified. In the world of the Sanskrit epics, protecting women is the very measure of a man's power, and it is men's power and virility that the epics are concerned with far more than the physical and emotional well-being of women. Pradyumna and Aniruddha, initially the victims of abductions, themselves become the conquerors of enemy women while in captivity. For Aniruddha as well, identity forms a crucial part of the abduction scenario.
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“Kṛṣṇa's son Pradyumna, and grandson Aniruddha, perpetuate the compound model vigorously in a number of sources that I have already treated in some depth (Austin 2018;2019a;2019b;2019c;2021), and so I will be as brief here as possible: Pradyumna's basic birth legend (Harivaṃśa 99; Viṣṇu Purāṇa 5.27; Bhāgavata Purāṇa 10.55), Aniruddha's very similar coming-of-age story (Harivaṃśa 107-8; Viṣṇu Purāṇa”
From The eropolitical compound: immanence, transcendence and a parasitic operation of patriarchy in Sanskrit literature (2023) · cites this paper as Austin 2018
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Austin, C. R. (2023) · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies · doi:10.1017/s0041977x23000174
Self-citationPatrilocality in the Harivamsa’s Visnuparvan
Brodbeck, S. (2021) · Religions of South Asia · doi:10.1558/rosa.19011
“For discussion of the Pradyumna and Aniruddha narratives, see Austin 2018.”
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- Authors
- Austin, C.
- Corresponding author
- Austin, Christopher
- ORCID
- Austin, Christopher
- Venue
- Divinizing in South Asian Traditions
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2018-06-14
- Pages
- 6-26
- OpenAlex
- W2905918945
- Cited by
- 3
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1
- FWCI
- 4.87
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › South Asian Studies and Diaspora
- Keywords
- abduction of women, Harivaṃśa, Sanskrit epic, Rama, Terminalia arjuna, Krishna, gender and power, male identity, women's protection, epic heroism
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